101
«E tratti del peniere oricanni d'ariento bellissimi e pieni qual, d'acqua rosa, qual d'acqua di fiori d'aranci, qual d'acqua di fiori di gelsomino e qual d'acqua nanfa, tuti costoro di queste acque spruzzarono...» (p. 766, §18). «And beautiful silver phials being taken from the basket, one full of rosewater, others of water of orange blossoms, and yet another of jasmine flowers, the slaves sprinkled them all over...».
102
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson («Lewis Carroll»), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch. 12, «Alice's Evidence». I quote from Martin Gardner's «The Annotated Alice» (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1960) pp. 158-59.
103
Cervantes and the Mystery of Lawlessness. A Study of 'El casamiento engañoso y El coloquio de los perros'. (Princeton: Princeton U. P., 1984).
104
Ernst Cassirer, The Logic of the Humanities, trans. Clarence Smith Howe (New Haven and London, Yale Univ. Press, 1960), p. 113.
105
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Novelas ejemplares, ed. Harry Sieber (Madrid: Cátedra, 1980), II, 299.
106
I refer to the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul Ricoeur as well as philosophers writing in English who are also interested in the relation of narrativity and the language of experience: Stephen Crites, Alasdair MacIntyre, the late Louis O. Mink among others. Also, I am indebted to Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot (New York: Knopf, 1984).
107
Alfred Rodriguez & Karl Roland Rowe, «Midsummer Eve and the Disenchantment of Dulcinea», Cervantes, 4 (1984), 79-83.
108
The specific dates cited in those chapters, a practice unheard of in the Quijote to that point, form part of the letters written by Sancho and the Duque, respectively. Cervantes' most unusual use of specific dates precisely at that point in the narrative, just after the implicit presentation of Midsummer and shortly before the reversion to Spring that we shall shortly refer to in Chapter 58, suggests an ambiguously playful attitude -in many respects a Cervantes hall mark- with regard to temporality and duration in his masterpiece.
109
For a discussion of this dating and significant bibliography, see L. A. Murillo, The Golden Dial (Oxford: The Dolphin Book Co., 1975), pp. 61-62.
110
Murillo, pp. 63-66.