The windmills of Don Quixote
Literary reference
Also appears as: The windmills
Thirty or forty windmills misidentified as giants. Noble predecessors of Idiot Left Energy plc.
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- Don Quixote ← character object (1 passage)
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“At this point they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that there are on the plain, and as soon as Don Quixote saw them he said to his squire, "Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and…