"...This would have been clear to thee, hadst though read as many histories as I have." "Only that their more usual diet must be those, and certain herbs they found in the fields which they know and I know too." In the two quotations above, Don Quixote's speech reveals that he is...

This speech reveals that Don Quixote is well-read and complacence man.

Explanation:

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel written by Miguel de Cervantes.  The novel is considered  to be the first modern novel. The novel revolves around the character of Alonso Quixano, who gets so engrossed in extensive reading that he losses his wits and decides to live like a chivalry-- knight-errant.

The given two quotations from the novel spoken by Don Quixote reveals that he is well-read when he expressed that 'hadst though read as many histories as I have.' Here, Don Quixote is speaking to Sancho telling him about a balm about which he has read in the books of chivalry. This shows that he is a well-read man. The other quote also expressed the same quality of Don Quixote when he educate Sancho about the diet of chivalry, about which he must have read in the books of chivalry. Boasting again and again of his well-read knowledge also reveals that Don Quixote is complacence man too, who boasts about his extensive well-read knowledge.

- "he is a very real person and his intent isn't to influence us vonnegut addresses this towards the end of the letter when he says, if we choose to curse, that is by our own individual means."

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.