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Title: The land of the Dons
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Leonard, b. 1871
Subjects: Civilization, Spanish Spain -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. But theeducated classes, by reason of their wit and frank-ness, rank high in society. The Andalusians must not be taken like a pill,seriously, or they go to pieces. They live to beamused, these epicureans of Iberia. The sorry pro-cess we reluctantly term life and turn our noses upat, is for them a pageant set with fairs and rouses, \balls and bullfights. Money they dispense with.He who in Andalusia has not the wherewithal toeat, lies stomach downwards on the highway, andthe sky and sunshine nourish him with slumber:— Fast asleep ? It is no matter :Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber :Thou hast no figures, nor no fantasiesWhich busy care draws in the brains of men :Therefore thou sleepst so sound. His whole existence is a cycle of deliciousemotions. Wine, women, and the guitar; women,the guitar, and wine ; the guitar, wine, and women—with sleep for entractes, so slips his world away—and work, and wealth, and politics go hang. Yetjealousy and revenge are none the less agreeable
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yT.i fn,:r p. il.) CATALANS. CFrom a Ihotogrnph hit Laurent, Madrid^ RETROSPECTIVE AND ETHNOLOGICAL. 7 to him when his dormant frenzies are aroused, andonce his blood is up and he sticks a knife into hisneighbour, he finds a joy in driving the blade haft-deep into the victims abdomen, and sleeps, in jail,more soundly for the recollection of his skill. If youhave an eye for the artistic, and a nose that can defythe congregated smells of Christendom, be sure tostep inside an Andalusian prison. Any warder willshow you round for a peseta. Such perfect filth.Such perfect inaction. Such perfect insouciance.Such rarely savage faces. You will remember theexperience to your last day, even though, unlike poorBorrow, you make the entrance in an amateurishstyle, and as a self-incarcerated visitor. The Castilian is quite the fine gentleman, the/for y nata of the Spains. His is the Court, andhe sets the mode for the enlightenment of hindsprovincial. He is polite and pleasure-loving, withsomething o

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