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| The downside of the search for comparisons and continuities is the tendency to overextend, as in suggesting that on the latifundia of ancient Rome, "life must not have been very different from that on pre-Civil War plantations in our Deep South; the diet as least was comparable. A terrible nemesis, a disappointment, lies in wait for the exiles and their latifundia of the imagination. One has traditionally divided Spain into the northern secano, dry lands, where the peasant was relatively free, and the southern regadios, the irrigated zone, where the latifundia system made the peasant a slave. |
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