Both Uses of
chimera
in
Don Quixote
- And there was Don Quixote observing all these strange proceedings attentively without uttering a word, and attributing the whole to chimeras of knight-errantry.†
Chpt 1.41-42 *
- I have never yet seen any book of chivalry that puts together a connected plot complete in all its numbers, so that the middle agrees with the beginning, and the end with the beginning and middle; on the contrary, they construct them with such a multitude of members that it seems as though they meant to produce a chimera or monster rather than a well-proportioned figure.†
Chpt 1.47-48
Definition:
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(chimera) something imagined, but not possible -- often an idea requiring an impossible combination