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From a review Graham Swift’s memoir, Making An Elephant:

But probably the most affecting essay is his recollection of fishing adventures with Ted Hughes, who showed him some of his favorite stretches of river in Devon. Swift recounts that “once, when I said goodbye to him to come back to London and made that glib and flimsy remark, ‘Back to the real world,’ he said, without any trace of sentimentality and almost sternly, ‘No, this is the real world.’ ”

Something to ponder.