Tuesday, July 21, 2009

[Cervantes on the clinamen]

"The first to deliver his blow was the wrathful Basque, and he did so with such force and fury that if his sword had not twisted in the course of its descent, that stroke alone would have been enough to put an end to the fearful fight and to all our knight's adventures; but fortune, which had better things in store for him, turned his opponent's blade aside so that ..."
-- Miguel Cervantes Saavedra, tr. John Rutherford, Don Quixote, I.9

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