Hemingway’s Bulls

From Today in Literature, the introduction:

On this day the running of the bulls begins in Pamplona, on the first morning of the nine-day Feast of San Fermin. Hemingway first went as a twenty-three-year-old writer still a month away from his first, small book (Three Stories and Ten Poems), and so still filing stories for the Toronto Star: “Then they came in sight. Eight bulls galloping along, full tilt, heavy set, black, glistening, sinister, their horns bare, tossing their heads….” His first wife, Hadley was with him; they had semi-joked that the bullfights would be a “stalwart” influence on the baby she was carrying….

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