I grew up vaguely near him.
Summary: A bunch of fake quotes about how awesome Don Quixote is.
Commentary: I assume this is the first of many possible firsts by DQ, the fake quote intro/praise. It's funny already. I think you see this more as a fake review snippet than as an epigraph today, but it works either way.
Notably, Grossman and Rutherford both maintain the Versos de Cabo Roto format and cut the last syllable from some of the poems, Ormsby does not. Curious if there's some wordplay missing here from the original. It'd be quite challenging to translate it, cut the syllable, have it make sense, and have there be another word that happened to end almost the same.
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