Memoir--The material in In Our Time is strong stuff for any reader, but this memoir is perhaps the most gruesome and cruel, involving as it does a wounded animal being cruelly treated in the bull ring. A gored horse is forced to its feet, in spite of the fact that some of its intestines have extruded from its abdomen. The picador rides the bleeding wobbling mount forward so he can shake his lance at the bull, but the bull, perhaps confused by the blood and the strangeness of the animal before him, cannot make up his mind to charge.
Story--In "Cat in the Rain" an American couple is staying at an Italian Hotel near the sea. Their room on the second floor also faces a public garden and a war monument, where artists come.....
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