Word: segovia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dull, all the landscape equally mournful. Now this is actually to condemn not merely individual consistency of mood but the consistency in spirit of an entire nation throughout the ages. Did she expect Spain to cast off her mourning and giggle? Did she seek for a soda fountain in Segovia? Did she want the devil on the church steeple? If she did I call her a fool, if she did not I place her in the ranks of those who fail to recognize, calling it theatrical, that most holy thing, austerity...