Wednesday, December 30, 2009

bloodshed in Nimes





Despite my better judgement, I decided to go to a bullfight.

Hemingway can glorify it all he wants but all that pomp and ceremony is nothing more than the torture and death of a noble animal.

With tears running down my face I watched the bull run to the edge of exhaustion before being tormented and stabbed until it collapsed and died, then ignominiously dragged out of the stadium to the waiting butchers van.