Book Passages

[Thumpalumpacus]

Hemingway's description of El Sordo's last stand in For Whom the Bell Tolls is stunning. From the same book, he describes a fascist mass-murder conducted by forcing socialists off the cliffs of Ronda, which bisect the town, in southeastern Spain. I've stood on those cliffs and looked into the canyon ... when I came across that passage a year later, the horror was magnified by having seen that drop, a couple hundred feet.

Here's a pic of it, from the net: