Lapham’s Quarterly

Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.