Foreign News: FOR WHOM THE BULL TOILS

El Magnified, whose real name was Lorenzo Garza, did not like the look of this bull. This bull did not charge straight and clean, coming into the cape with a sharp whoosh. This bull did not charge at all, the cabron, and this day the crowd did not like Lorenzo Garza but much preferred Armillita, who worked in the decadent style of the imitators of Belmonte and (Lorenzo Garza thought) was not of sufficient worth to exhibit himself mano a mano with El Magnifico in the Plaza de Toros in Mexico City. Lorenzo Garza spat in the sand. Then he drew...

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