The bullfight is not a sport in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the word, that is, it is not an equal contest or an attempt at an equal contest between a bull and a man. Rather it is a tragedy; the death of the bull, which is played, more or less well, by the bull and the man involved and in which there is danger for the man abut certain death for the animal.


Ernest Hemingway. Death in the Afternoon. Simon & Schuster. 1932. p.16