Crossroads - Chatwin and García Lorca

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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…”

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