A VIGNETTE OF SPANISH LIFE ... AND DEATH
I still have some editing to do on my A New Folklore piece, so meanwhile try this … The Spanish Way of Death. The more affluent modern societies become; and the more its members become obsessed with their own health and beauty, the more they seem to look upon death as an infliction of a cruel and uncaring God or Nature. But the Spanish seem to me to have a more natural acceptance of death than do we present-day British; although in my youth our attitudes to death were very similar to theirs.... Sign in to see full entry.