tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post2615214159547164027..comments2023-05-24T23:33:57.516+10:00Comments on My Unwelcome Stranger: El Torito: love and aggro in the cowyard (2)Denis Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-3205897903293620582012-12-14T13:49:16.323+11:002012-12-14T13:49:16.323+11:00I definitely remember that song - even contemplate...I definitely remember that song - even contemplated working it into the piece but then thought I'd better stick to the main plot [rare for me I know]. We used to sing along with it with great gusto when played on the radio. Of course, the irony is, as you know, that being "the best in [Spain]" meant he'd be tortured by the picadors and stabbed through the spinal column and die a painful death.<br /><br />Barbarous. I don't care how fond of the romance of bull-fighting Hemingway was. He wasn't the bull.<br /><br />The feisty is fun when you don't have 350 kg of bull charging towards you and the fence a long way away! And you are right about the realities of animal husbandry, but I won't go into that here.<br /><br />I also thought to go off at a tangent about the multiplicity of uses for the 44 gall drum until it ended its working life as an incinerator. There were nothing quite like them. No, not peculiar to Australia. They were the military 200 litre drum used for everything right up to Av-Gas. But I resisted the temptation. You've saved me a job!<br /><br />Thanks once more for your contribution, Ros.<br />Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-37532551539852377912012-12-14T13:25:54.111+11:002012-12-14T13:25:54.111+11:00You do? Crumbs! Oh I get it - the bit about dharma...You do? Crumbs! Oh I get it - the bit about <i>dharma</i> and <i>karma.</i> You may well be right. Third one's acomin' – it's all in my head. So that's a lot of bull to deal with.Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-44560197834487792542012-12-13T16:43:35.733+11:002012-12-13T16:43:35.733+11:00What a bull! I can't get Tommy Steele's 19...What a bull! I can't get Tommy Steele's 1959 song, Little White Bull" out of my head. Do you remember it? <br />"Once upon a time there was a little white bull.<br />Very sad because he was a little white bull etc etc<br />....Charging twice and charging once again<br />The matador cried, torro little bull!<br />You're not a little bull, you're a brave little bull<br />You're gonna be a great little bull<br />The best in (Calliope)!"<br />I like your El Torito - and like all (most)good, effective, productive farm animals, the feistier, the more love they have to share around - just not towards humans!<br /><br />I have recently had to send to god a very beautiful, warm, polite and friendly black rooster because he was was too afraid of the hens to produce even one spring chicken. Of course, my dear old neighbour had to do "it". I was far too fond of him (the rooster, I mean). Realities of animal husbandry, I'm afraid...<br /><br />And the 44gallon drum. Ubiquitous in my life. Was it particular to Australian life back in those days, I wonder?<br />We used them for everything from storing water, to growing spuds, to keeping grain away from rodents, to playing in empty drums, rolling them down grassy slopes etc etc. Sunny days of childhood.<br />(Looking forward to Ch 3.)<br /><br />Roshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13339472107640597921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-62458594979546587042012-12-12T22:06:02.312+11:002012-12-12T22:06:02.312+11:00I am beginning to see how El Torito helped shape y...I am beginning to see how El Torito helped shape your path towards comparative religions. I await Part 3 with bated breath but I hope it has a happy ending. I am liking El Torito - feistyness is very appealing. Anne PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com