One with the Bull

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“You’re there, alone, with a fearsome half-a-ton beast who doesn’t have much hope living beyond another 20 minutes. There’s a ring in the ears from the audience cheers – but it soon fades. You’re one with the bull. You have to make your performance and you have to kill it – or it will kill you.”

    Excerpt from A toreador’s memoirsby Miguel “ El Sevillano” Hernández.