Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Crossroads - Chatwin and García Lorca
In "In Patagonia", chapter 95, Chatwin writes about the poetry of Garcia Lorca. He surprises a ladies underwear salesman at his hotel in Punta Arenas by recognising the first lines of the García Lorca poem “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias”: “A las cinco de la tarde. Eran las cinco en punto de la tarde…”
// posted by The beaver @ 11:11 PM 
