BarkellWH -> RE: jose tomas gored! (May 6 2010 16:38:47)
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SRShea, that's a great line from The Sun Also Rises. For anyone who is into Hemingway and bullfighting, the ultimate is his work, Death in the Afternoon. And a very good book by Hemingway, published posthumously, is The Dangerous Summer. The Dangerous Summer is an account of the 1959 rivalry in the bullring between Antonio Ordonez and Luis Miguel Dominguin. Ordonez was the more accomplished matador, but Dominguin was also good and came out of retirement to meet the younger (and better!) Ordoniz's challenge. Reading these works makes me long for the old Spain, before the tacky developments along the Costa del Sol and the invasion of Americans (of which I am one), Europeans, and everyone else, even if it was under Franco. I suppose there are still remnants of it left here and there. Cheers, Bill
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