knight errant

The 16th-century novelist Miguel de Cervantes framed his fictional story of the knight-errant Don Quixote as the translation of a recovered Arabic manuscript.

Nonetheless, he is regarded by some in the astronomy community as a knight-errant, tilting at windmills.

One man came as a patriotic duck; another as a bald eagle; another as a cross between a knight-errant and Captain America; another as Abraham Lincoln.

In Cervantes’s classic novel, a student tells the knight-errant Don Quixote, “The greater the fame of the writer, the more closely his books are scrutinized.”

The Aug. 16 Style article “A knight-errant looking to right the ways of the wind” illuminated the president’s views — at best, those of a Luddite — on the status of wind generation worldwide.