Don Quixote Book I
Why does Quixote spend so long naming his horse?
Why does Quixote spend a long time giving his horse a name?
Why does Quixote spend a long time giving his horse a name?
"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..."