Tilting at windmills

Whilst reading through his still-unpublished first book, the following passage reminded Ecks that 2005 is the 400 year anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' seminal epic Don Quixote.

His boat was called the Sancho Panza, named after Don Quixote's long-suffering squire. When he had been given the boat his grandfather had told him that it had no name, and that he must name it before he could put to sea in it. He told him with sparkling eyes that the sea would claim as its own any nameless boat that sailed on it, as it would assume that it had no owner and was therefore common property. So Abejundio wracked his brain for days on end, desperately searching for the right name but unable to think of one that fitted the boat. He sorely wanted to go out on the water, but he was afraid of what his grandfather had told him and dared not incur the wrath of the ocean. Eventually he decided that as Fidel's boat, the Don Quixote, was the largest and oldest on the island, the best thing to do would be to imply that his boat was its companion. That way, even if the sea were unsure that the boat belonged to Abejundio, it would assume that it belonged to Fidel instead, and from that day forth Abejundio put to sea with confidence.