In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the … - Bette Ford

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When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

Bette Ford

In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that give you the upper hand. You read the bull, you learn to read the bull more and more accurately, and this reading of the bull is how you deploy your intelligence against the bull's intelligence. Your accuracy in reading the bull is a weapon, maybe your most important weapon, against all the bull's weapons. On the other hand, you're human, you have the human tendency to read into the bull things which may not actually be there.

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I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to it. So then it comes back to whether the suffering and cruelty is justified by its place in a tradition that has deep roots in the culture. At present, the view in Catalonia apparently is that it does not.

Believe, Connected, Cruelty, Roots, Suffering, Views

I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction.

Gives, Giving, Kill, Killing, Males, Technique

For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.

Death, Losing, Play, Power, Spiritual, Winning

Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I would want to acknowledge is that perhaps the tension, the crucial tension, isn't necessarily between the view of bullfighting as a tradition versus as an art form, but between the values inside the ring and the values outside the ring.

Acknowledge, Art, Bullfighting, Leaving, Perhaps, Views

It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.

Bullfighting, Entirely, Imagine, Impossible, Spain