By Ernest Hemingway
Dans les années 1920, Hemingway est devenu un aficionado de l'art de l. a. tauromachie après avoir assisté aux fêtes de San Fermín de Pampelune qui sert de cadre au roman Le soleil se lève aussi. Dans Mort dans l'après-midi, il discute de los angeles métaphysique de los angeles tauromachie, l'associant à un rituel, presque à l'égal d'une cérémonie religieuse, element de départ pour l'écrivain d'une interrogation sur l'essence de los angeles vie et de los angeles mort.
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He has been up to something, talk to him sternly and sadly right away," advised Mr. K. "But I don't know what he has got up to," objected his host. "The dog can't know that," said Mr. K. urgently.
K. drives a car Mr. K. had learned to drive, but at first did not drive very well. "So far I've only learned to drive one car," he excused himself. "But one must be able to drive two, that is, the car in front of one's own as well. " 51 Mr. K. and poetry After reading a volume of poetry Mr. K. said: "In an cient Rome, when candidates for public office made their appearance in the Forum, they were not allowed to wear clothes with pockets, so that they could not take any bribes. " 52 The horoscope Mr.
Replied: "There never has been a thought whose father was not a wish. But what one can argue about is: which wish? " 39 The administration of justice Mr. K. often mentioned as in some degree exemplary a legal instruction in ancient China, according to which the judges in important trials were fetched from distant provinces. Thus they were harder to bribe (and did not have to be so unbribable), since the local judges watched over their unbribability-that is, people who knew the ropes in just this respect and who wished the incomers ill.
