Prairie Mary found this nice paragraph in Cook's Illustrated:
"Home is an overused term but still a powerful idea....The concept of home even applies to horses. In Argentina, gauchos refer to the region where a horse is born as the querencia. (Querer means "to love.") In the days before fences, a horse would always try to return to its querencia because it was home, the place a horse knew by the quality of light in the early morning, the taste of the grass, and the look of the hills -- all things that a horse never forgets."
2 comments:
E.H. refers in several works to the analogous place a bull prefers, and he defines "querencia" in Death in the Afternoon as that "part of the ring that the bull prefers to be in; where he feels at home."
Querencia: Home to lots of bull!
First of all, that paragraph is brilliant.
Second, Matt's good eh?
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