BeagleSword_July25 - The Monday Morning Memo

Tim the Hawaiian Storm sent this clip below to our attention. – Indy

“All matadors are gored dangerously, painfully, and very close to fatally, sooner or later, in their careers, and until a matador has undergone this first severe wound you cannot tell what his permanent value will be. For no matter how much he may keep of his courage you cannot tell how it will affect his reflexes. A man may be as brave as the bull himself to face any danger and still, by his nerves, be unable to face that danger coldly. When a bullfighter can no longer be calm and put danger away after the fight once starts, can no longer see the bull come calmly, without having to nerve himself, then he is through as a successful bullfighter. Nerved-up bullfighting is sad to watch. The spectators do not want it. They pay to see the tragedy of the bull; not the man.”

- Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon, p. 166-167

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