LGM's line "tú me llamas, amor, yo cojo un taxi" is a kind of anti-touchstone. It was singled out by Mainer ("aquel prodigioso endecasílabo...") and then pilloried by Blanca Andreu, Mayhew, Álvaro Salvador, and José Antonio Fortes. Mainer compared it to Quevedo: "polvo serán, mas polvo enamorado."
I had not figured out how bad Mainer was.
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