Model of a City in Civil War. Adam Day
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sits Queen Anne at Hockley Hole, London
for the dog and bull show.
A rope is tied ’round the root of the bull’s horns and fastened
to an iron stake,
its slobbery gray nose blown full of pepper to enrage it before
it’s baited. Meanwhile,
men hold dogs by the ears. Let loose, the goal for the dog is to hold for all
hell to the bull’s
snout—the most sensitive spot other than the genitals—“If a bull had balls
hanging from its face
they’d be attached to his snout.” Now, either the dog remains
fixed, or is thrown
tearing out the flesh it has laid teeth on. The bull, a skeptic in dialogue
with hope, works
to slide a horn under the cur’s belly, and throw it, so that a dog’s side
is often ripped open
entrails protruding like wet sausage—“Yes, it provides much joy
for the community,
and the animals certainly gain a sense of dignity in achievement.”
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Goya’s “Portrait of the Family of Charles IV”: intermarriage preserved
the family’s wealth
and the compact features of mongoloids. Deformed by a hunting accident,
Charles—subsidiary
to his wife, his mouth full of gravel—spent his power slowly collecting
watches and wrestling
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