Roberto González Echevarría continues his Yale course on Cervantes' Don Quixote with a close reading of the episode at Juan Palomeque's inn, arguing that this stretch of chapters functions as a miniature emblem for the whole first part of the novel. He traces how the inn's social order gets upended by erotic desire, exposing what he calls the subconscious of literature, and walks through the picaresque and legal-document sources behind its cast of characters, many marked by physical defects that make them oddly compelling. He reads Don Quixote's and Sancho's bodily functions as dramatizations of raw survival drives, and treats the inn's improvised, ramshackle architecture as a mirror of the novel's own apparently haphazard but cosmically connected design. The lecture closes with a look at Cervantes's well known factual errors and the deepening bond between knight and squire. Recorded at Yale in Fall 2009 as part of the Cervantes' Don Quixote course.