José Tomás meets his legend again

At 6:00 p.m.

the streets surrounding the center of

were already a desert.

Not a soul passed through them.

As if all the life of the city was concentrated around the bullring;

where

would do his fourth paseo of the last five years.

That he was also the last announced.

Everything woke up in the

Between the 'fan zone' of

and the arena, the crowd was swirling.

The wave of pillows, the eternal queues at the entrance, the fervor of the runaway pilgrimage.

The classic scene of Thomistic (re)appearances.

At 7:25 p.m.

the public address announced the delay of the celebration five minutes "to accommodate the public", stuck in vomitories and lines.

Such was the expectation.

That broke out in an overflowing ovation at 7:39 p.m.

When the

stepped on the sand of Alicante.

Garnet and gold dress.

Only.

And to kill only four bulls.

After the

fiasco and pandemic silence, everything (finally) found its cause in the second.

A tall, long and somewhat saddled garcigrande, who was protested for his lack of zeal during the first third.

JT silenced the candy box nailed to the hydrant.

With the cape on his back held very low and the soles of his feet screwed to the sand.

There sprung the sets of

and, with them, the old José Tomás.

Reborn.

So as not to go away in an unfading task.

Out of all mould.

Only available to a select few.

The statuary in the center of the arena prolonged an endless succession of bullfighting to the left.

Of eternal batches due to the length of the stroke and the number of naturals.

Until 8 I got to count.

All brought the importance of pulling a sometimes defeated bull, which hid the quality of humiliation in its long neck.

Also that everything happened in the fiery grounds that forged JT as the Stone God.

He didn't rectify his classic red line one millimeter.

Not even on an implausible back pass.

Sunken into his own lean figure, he drew the entire work with the flights of the crutch.

From that spring of silk emanated the passes of pacho from shoulder pad to shoulder pad.

"Never go away, José Tomás," they yelled at him from the stand.

After the bossy doubloons at the close, the thrust one point behind did not stop the clamor of 12,000 overflowing souls.

The two ears sealed the reunion of José Tomás with the legend of him, while some of the faithful hugged on the line.

The last ear fell, with another draft, in the third.

A tall and well presented bull from

which was over as soon as JT, genuflected after the apotheosis, doubled up with him in a powerful start.

Regained the vertical, she tried it with both hands despite the constant 'warning'.

From the icy little look that she sought for him until she hunted him down with an accurate whiplash.

The parish held its breath as JT flew through the air, grabbing at the pythons to stay out of their mercy, until, smeared with blood, he got to his feet.

As proof of the miracle.

After that he took advantage of the half trip in a last goal in the vicinity and closed the battle with a handful of ballet flats executed from a straight cypress.

The cries of "bullfighter, bullfighter" ran to silence as JT let himself go after the sword.

That she fell contrary under the fervor.

WORLD

Ahead he had fought with a juampedro fasting for strength.

To whom he was entwined in a mirage of the Tomasist chicuelinas.

Tighter than clean;

chanted from the clamor.

's pupil announced

what he (did not) bring.

The requested ear of him would have seemed excessive for a task with the sole argument (not always achieved) of seeking cleanliness.

The delicacy of José Tomás was not enough in the face of the limited power of his last announced bull).

After passporting him, his followers dragged him on their shoulders through the Plaza de España.

Only.

And rediscovered with the legend of him.

Manuel Lorenzo EFE

Alicante bullring.

Sunday, August 7, 2022. Full of “no tickets”.

Bulls led by Juan Pedro Domecq (1st), Garcigrande (2nd), Victoriano del Río (3rd) and Domingo Hernández (4th);

presentation corrector 2nd and 3rd, and very fair 1st and 4th.

José Tomás, in scarlet and gold.

Rear lunge (greetings upon request).

In the second, rear lunge and a lying point (two ears).

In the third, opposite lunge (ear).

In the fourth, two punctures and a falling lunge (silence).

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