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
Spenser (character) investigator Sunny Randall and small town police chief Jesse Stone, the former of whom was possibly mentioned in passing as a blonde jogging with an English bull terrier (named Rosie in the Randall novels) while the latter had a much larger role in "Back Story". Susan Silverman is Sunny Randall's psychologist in "Melancholy Baby". The fictional Taft University, where Susan teaches, was also a primary setting for the Spenser novel "Playmates", and the non-Spenser novel "Love and Glory". Spenser (character) Spenser—his first name is never officially revealed—is a fictional character in a series of detective novels initially by the American