i am listening to jimi hendrix & working on my book

Bull sticking was so tightly linked with Christian religious celebrations that two hundred bulls were killed at the canonization of Saint Teresa in 1622…Christian catharsis: the bull is the beast in man – the beast with the seven horns of sin – overcome by the angel in him….El Cid….a famous bullfighter.

…from The Others: How Animals Made Us Human by Paul Shepard