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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES
| Language | English |
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| Project | LinES |
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| Corpus Part | test |
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| Annotation | Ahrenberg, Lars |
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Quinn ate with crude intensity, polishing off the meal in what seemed a matter of seconds.
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Quinn ate with crude intensity, polishing off the meal in what seemed a matter of seconds.
After that, he made a great effort to be calm.
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After that, he made a great effort to be calm.
Tears lurked mysteriously behind his eyes, and his voice seemed to tremble as he spoke, but somehow he managed to hold his own.
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Tears lurked mysteriously behind his eyes, and his voice seemed to tremble as he spoke, but somehow he managed to hold his own.
To prove that he was not a self-obsessed ingrate, he began to question Auster about his writing.
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To prove that he was not a self-obsessed ingrate, he began to question Auster about his writing.
Auster was somewhat reticent about it, but at last he conceded that he was working on a book of essays. The current piece was about Don Quixote.
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Auster was somewhat reticent about it, but at last he conceded that he was working on a book of essays. The current piece was about Don Quixote.
One of my favourite books, said Quinn.
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One of my favourite books, said Quinn.
Yes, mine too.
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Yes, mine too.
There's nothing like it.
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There's nothing like it.
Quinn asked him about the essay.
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Quinn asked him about the essay.
I suppose you can call it speculative, since I'm not really out to prove anything.
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I suppose you can call it speculative, since I'm not really out to prove anything.
In fact, it's all done tounge-in-cheek.
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In fact, it's all done tounge-in-cheek.
An imaginative reading, I guess you could say.
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An imaginative reading, I guess you could say.
What's the gist?
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What's the gist?
It mostly has to do with the authorship of the book. Who wrote it, and how it was written.
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It mostly has to do with the authorship of the book. Who wrote it, and how it was written.
Is there any question?
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Is there any question?
Of course not. But I mean the book inside the book Cervantes wrote, the one he imagined he was writing.
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Of course not. But I mean the book inside the book Cervantes wrote, the one he imagined he was writing.
Ah.
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Ah.
It's quite simple.
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It's quite simple.
Cervantes, if you remember, goes to great lengths to convince the reader that he is not the author.
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Cervantes, if you remember, goes to great lengths to convince the reader that he is not the author.
The book, he says, was written in Arabic by Cid Hamete Benengali.
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The book, he says, was written in Arabic by Cid Hamete Benengali.
Cervantes describes how he discovered the manuscript by chance one day in the market at Toledo.
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Cervantes describes how he discovered the manuscript by chance one day in the market at Toledo.
He hires someone to translate it for him into Spanish,
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He hires someone to translate it for him into Spanish,
and thereafter he presents himself as no more than the editor of the translation.
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and thereafter he presents himself as no more than the editor of the translation.
In fact, he can not even vouch for the accuracy of the translation itself.
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In fact, he can not even vouch for the accuracy of the translation itself.
And yet he goes on to say, Quinn added, that Cid Hamete Benengali's is the only true version of Don Quixote's story.
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And yet he goes on to say, Quinn added, that Cid Hamete Benengali's is the only true version of Don Quixote's story.
All the other versions are frauds, written by impostors.
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All the other versions are frauds, written by impostors.
He makes a great point of insisting that everything in the book really happened in the world.
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He makes a great point of insisting that everything in the book really happened in the world.
Exactly.
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Exactly.
Because the book after all is an attack on the dangers of the make-believe.
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Because the book after all is an attack on the dangers of the make-believe.
He couldn't very well offer a work of the imagination to do that, could he?
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He couldn't very well offer a work of the imagination to do that, could he?
He had to claim that it was real.
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He had to claim that it was real.
Still, I've always suspected that Cervantes devoured those old romances.
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Still, I've always suspected that Cervantes devoured those old romances.
You can't hate something so violently unless a part of you also loves it.
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You can't hate something so violently unless a part of you also loves it.
In some sense, Don Quixote was just a stand-in for himself.
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In some sense, Don Quixote was just a stand-in for himself.
I agree with you.
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I agree with you.
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
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What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
Precisely.
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Precisely.
In any case, since the book is supposed to be real, it follows that the story has to be written by an eyewitness to the events that take place in it.
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In any case, since the book is supposed to be real, it follows that the story has to be written by an eyewitness to the events that take place in it.
But Cid Hamete, the acknowledged author, never makes an appearance.
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But Cid Hamete, the acknowledged author, never makes an appearance.
Not once does he claim to be present at what happens.
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Not once does he claim to be present at what happens.
So, my question is this: who is Cid Hamete Benengali?
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So, my question is this: who is Cid Hamete Benengali?
Yes, I see what you're getting at.
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Yes, I see what you're getting at.
The theory I present in the essay is that he is actually a combination of four different people.
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The theory I present in the essay is that he is actually a combination of four different people.
Sancho Panza is of course the witness.
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Sancho Panza is of course the witness.
There's no other candidate – since he is the only one who accompanies Don Quixote on all his adventures.
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There's no other candidate – since he is the only one who accompanies Don Quixote on all his adventures.
But Sancho can neither read nor write.
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But Sancho can neither read nor write.
Therefore, he can not be the author.
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Therefore, he can not be the author.
On the other hand, we know that Sancho has a great gift for language.
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On the other hand, we know that Sancho has a great gift for language.
In spite of his inane malapropisms, he can talk circles around everyone else in the book.
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In spite of his inane malapropisms, he can talk circles around everyone else in the book.
It seems perfectly possible to me that he dictated the story to someone else – namely, to the barber and the priest, Don Quixote's good friends.
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It seems perfectly possible to me that he dictated the story to someone else – namely, to the barber and the priest, Don Quixote's good friends.
They put the story into proper literary form – in Spanish – and then turned the manuscript over to Samson Carrasco, the bachelor from Salamanca, who proceeded to translate it into Arabic.
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They put the story into proper literary form – in Spanish – and then turned the manuscript over to Samson Carrasco, the bachelor from Salamanca, who proceeded to translate it into Arabic.
Cervantes found the translation, had it rendered back into Spanish, and then published the book The Adventures of Don Quixote.
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Cervantes found the translation, had it rendered back into Spanish, and then published the book The Adventures of Don Quixote.
But why would Sancho and the others go to all that trouble?
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But why would Sancho and the others go to all that trouble?
To cure Don Quixote of his madness.
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To cure Don Quixote of his madness.
They want to save their friend.
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They want to save their friend.
Remember, at the beginning they burn his books of chivalry, but that has no effect.
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Remember, at the beginning they burn his books of chivalry, but that has no effect.
The Knight of the Sad Countenance does not give up his obsessions.
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The Knight of the Sad Countenance does not give up his obsessions.
Then, at one time or another, they all go out looking for him in various disguises – as a woman in distress, as the Knight of the Mirrors, as the Knight of the White Moon – in order to lure Don Quixote back home.
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Then, at one time or another, they all go out looking for him in various disguises – as a woman in distress, as the Knight of the Mirrors, as the Knight of the White Moon – in order to lure Don Quixote back home.
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