"Those you see over there," replied his master, [Don Quixote] " with the long arms; sometimes they are almost two leagues long."
"Look, your grace," Sancho responded, " those things that appear over there aren't giants but windmills, and what looks like their arms are the sails that are turned by the wind and make the grindstone move."
I'm only up to this and couple other earlier episodes of DQ's being nonsensical. I'm very impressed by this peculiar choice of subject and its particular form of humor, given that it was 1605 when it was written.
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