Friday, October 14, 2005

Tynan

I forgot two odd things about Tynan below. Though a noted libertine, he was a student of C. S. Lewis at Oxford, and appreciated him all his life-- words from Lewis were read over his grave.

And he wrote one of the best books on bullfighting ever written on the practice for the non- aficionado, Bull Fever. I'd give it the edge on even Hemingway's fine book, perhaps because he deeply understood the theatrical nature of the spectacle.

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