Rocinante strove to adapt it so as to indicate what he had been before belonging to a knight-errant, and what he then was." Rocinante Rocinante () is Don Quixote's horse in the novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. In many ways, Rocinante is not only Don Quixote's horse, but also his double: like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities. in Spanish means a work horse or low-quality horse, but can also mean an illiterate or rough man. There are similar words in French ("roussin; rosse"), Portuguese ("rocim"), Dutch ("ros"), and
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