Transcript

014 - chapter 14 · In Our Time

0:00
Speaker 1: Chapter fourteen of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. The
0:05
Speaker 1: sleebrivox recording is in the public domain, chapter number fourteen.
0:11
Speaker 1: If it happened right down close in front of you,
0:14
Speaker 1: you could see Violta snarl at the bull and curse him.
0:17
Speaker 1: And when the bull charged, he swung back firmly, like
0:20
Speaker 1: an oak when the wind hits it, his legs tight together,
0:24
Speaker 1: the muleta trailing and the sword following the curve behind.
0:28
Speaker 1: Then he cursed the bull, flopped the muletta at him,
0:30
Speaker 1: and swung back from the charge, his feet firm, the
0:34
Speaker 1: muleta curving in each swing, the crowd roaring. When he
0:38
Speaker 1: started to kill. It was all in the same rush,
0:41
Speaker 1: the bull looking at him straight in front, hating. He
0:45
Speaker 1: drew out the sword from the folds of the muleta
0:47
Speaker 1: and sight it with the same movement, and called to
0:50
Speaker 1: the bull, toro, toro, And the bull charged, and Violta
0:54
Speaker 1: charged him. Just for a moment they became one. Violta
0:58
Speaker 1: became one with the bull. And then it is over
1:01
Speaker 1: vii Alta standing straight in the red hilt of the
1:03
Speaker 1: sword sticking out dully between the bull's shoulders, Violta's hand
1:09
Speaker 1: up at the crowd and the bull roaring blood, looking
1:12
Speaker 1: straight at Violta and his legs catering end of chapter fourteen,