Unit 5: Vocabulary from Readings 2

In bull-fighting they speak of the terrain of the bull and the terrain of the bull-fighter.

Also Belmonte imposed conditions and insisted that his bulls should not be too large, nor too dangerously armed with horns, and so the element that was necessary to give the sensation of tragedy was not there, and the public, who wanted three times as much from Belmonte, who was sick with a fistula, as Belmonte had ever been able to give, felt defrauded and cheated...

He had expected to compete with Marcial and the other stars of the decadence of bull-fighting, and he knew that the sincerity of his own bull-fighting would be so set off by the false aesthetics of the bull-fighters of the decadent period that he would only have to be in the ring.

There were no tricks and no mystifications.

There was no brusqueness.

At intervals there would be the sound of a shot from the direction of El Sordo’s camp. But the firing was desultory.

There was quite a lot of religion in the letter and she prayed to Saint Anthony, to the Blessed Virgin of Pilar, and to other Virgins to protect him and she wanted him never to forget that he was also protected by the Sacred Heart of Jesus that he wore still, she trusted, at all times over his own heart where it had been proven innumerable—this was underlined—times to have the power of stopping bullets.

How many of those you have killed have been real fascists?

Shut up, he told himself. You’re getting awfully pompous.

You have put many things in abeyance to win a war.