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“Even the air-conditioning ... could not completely undo the baking heat. It was well over a hundred degrees outside. Every sign of life seemed to have been burned out of the landscape. Even the tumbleweed lay motionless against the saguaros. It was too hot to tumble … It was a dry heat—so the Arizonans liked to say. Dry like a blowtorch or the bowels of hell, he thought.”

Yep. That's southern Arizona all right!