Goodreads asked Ron Yates:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Ron Yates The 1920s Spain of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises beckons. I'd be damaged by war and drink in the cafes with the expatriates and watch the bullfights, but that would make me sad so I'd drink more and get depressed and pick a fight. I'd slug a guy who needed it, but because he was drunk and weak my friends would turn on me. I'd go off by myself and try to seduce women but the women would toy with my emotions making me more depressed until I found a ruined bullfighter who'd lost his courage. We'd become friends and drink until sunrise, visiting his favorite haunts where the patrons whispered behind his back. His sister would like me but would ultimately reject me because I refused to learn a game she'd invented called helado derretido. She would scream for me to ¡Vete! Realizing I needed sleep and to be alone, I would leave her and her brother, dragging myself along the avenida until a boy and his grandfather, who pushed a cart, would offer me a crepe.

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