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“southern Spain has the highest ratio of metaphor to reality of any place I’ve ever known.” I don’t believe I’ve ever thought of Zadie Smith and Hemingway at the same time… on reflection, if I had, it would have been to reflect, “This is exactly the opposite of how Hemingway would think and write about this topic”, but that’s a pretty Hemingway-esque turn of phrase and still classic Zadie Smith.