Here’s the blurb about Bull’s Blood* by indie perfume house Imaginary Authors (yes, the “authors” are from the world of make-believe, no need to google them or search on Amazon for their works!):

Devante Valéreo was raised in a dusty Spanish village on the Balearic Sea. He fondly recalled going to the bullfights with his father, an ex-picador, and credited those early experiences with inspiring his most popular novella, Bull’s Blood. The book’s lurid tale of seduction garnered obscenity charges against the author. Though the charges were rejected by the court, a ban on the sale of his works persisted for a number of years.

A fixture in Barcelona, smoking cigarillos and writing in the cafés and bars into the night, Valéreo disappeared as a fugitive in 1967 after a highly publicized bar scuffle with American sailors, one of whom later died from his injuries. ‘A man who has killed,’ he wrote in Bull’s Blood, ‘is a man who knows passion.’

Really? I’m pretty sure I know passion, and I’ve never killed anyone — yet (Valéreo, I assume, “wrote” pulp fiction). And the bullfighting connection with Bull’s Blood? I could do without it…

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