Carlos The Impossible

And so the deal was struck. It was arranged that the empresario for the Plaza Mexico would buy Carlos from Button for Hernando to fight. Come the Fiesta de la Fuerza Irresistible, the Great One would meet the bull that was born of a thunderclap at the great ranch of Plumpkin with six-inch horns as smoke poured from his cavernous nostrils, the bull that could not be killed in a Kansas slaughterhouse, the bull who had taken a hundred lives in the capeas of Ronda with not a drop of his own blood spent in the effort, the bull who they said would not quite fit through El Arco de Cabo, and had come by now to be known to the aficionados as Carlos the Impossible.