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Day: October 26, 2010

The divine prohibition of bullfighting in English and Cagancho in Almagro: whatever won’t be, won’t be

Programmes are rarely distributed at bullfights, and are never translated into English. There is an excellent reason for this, recounted over at La Aldea del Tauro in an interesting piece on the Taurine Bibliophiles of America (via Salmonetes no nos quedan): It’s said that while negotiating with Cagancho the possibility of him filming a movie…

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