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Teruel sounds almost like another young dreamer from abroad who came here 200 years ago. When William Wordsworth first visited France, the high point of his trip, he hoped, would be walking across the Alps. But one day a peasant informed him the climax was behind him; he had already crossed them. Stunned, the young poet considered himself lost. Then, rallying, he recalled that his true destiny lay with "hope that can never die/ Effort and expectation and desire/ and something evermore about to be." That is the kind of pep talk Teruel, if not Tomba, is giving himself even now.