Sallie's posts tagged ‘Ernest Hemingway’

This shocks us, as we are shocked by Flamenco and the bullring. At least since the enlightenment, we of the New World have believed in our perfectibility, if not in our perfection, in our concurrent right to protection and ease. The essential tragedy of life is not for us; we will circumvent it, somehow, as when I was a small child I believed death would have been “cured” by the time I was old.

In Travel Seville Spain flamenco bullfighting Ernest Hemingway