Ah yes, Amigos! Welcome to the Cantina. You have come for the bullfights, no? You will have several sangrias, and then run through the streets pursued by the toros locos? Ah, you Americano thrill-seekers! Do you see that fellow who drinks at the table with the two beautiful Senoritas? That is my good friend Don Rodrigo from Seville. He will drink, eat, and love tonight with great passion, because tomorrow afternoon he dons the Suit of Lights to do sacred battle with the beast. It is Death which puts the sharpened edge on the sword of Life, you see.

Have another round of cervezas, amigos, and please take this flagon of wine with you. It is the Carneval de Toros, and no one sleeps tonight!

LEJ(watching the snow pile up outside and wishing he was in Pamplona)