One of many descriptions of staggering heat and light in the Mani.

‘The stone flags at the water’s edge … flung back the heat like a casserole with the lid off.’

Source: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, introduction by Michael Gorra, New York: New York Review of Books, 2006 (1958), p. 42

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