Rocinante era antes y primero de todos los rocines del mundo"—"a name, to his thinking, lofty, sonorous, and significant of his condition as a hack before he became what he now was, the first and foremost of all the hacks in the world". In chapter 1, Cervantes describes Don Quixote's careful naming of his steed: Four days were spent in thinking what name to give him, because (as he said to himself) it was not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one with such merits of his own, should be without some distinctive name, and he
Santa Teresa (fictional city) Santa Teresa (fictional city) Santa Teresa has been used by several authors as the name of an invented city. Santa Teresa was created by Ross Macdonald as a fictionalised version of Santa Barbara, California in his mystery "The Moving Target" (1949). He used it again in several others of his works, including "The Galton Case" (1959), "The Instant Enemy" (1968), and "The Underground Man" (1971). In the 1980s, the writer Sue Grafton began using a fictional Santa Teresa as the setting for her novels featuring her lead character Kinsey Millhone, a fictional female private investigator. Millhone is the protagonist of