"Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner. ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived."
"A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does.""
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Source: Honor Tracy (1957). “Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey”, New York, Random House [1958
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