Thoughts in a dry season

Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain. Brenan is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village. He was appointed in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List of 1982. Source: [Gerald Brenan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Brenan) on Wikipedia.