Another Damn Post on the Civil War!*

OK, I know everybody is fed up with the Spanish Civil War by this point but this is my new research topic, so gear yourself for at least 3 more years of this, folks. I will try to make it as painless as I can.

Today I just had to share with you this priceless quote from Anthony Beevor’s classic volume The Battle for Spain (which, to my shame, I’m reading now for the very first time):

In the tense spring of 1936 on his way to Madrid University, Julián Marías, a disciple of the phil­osopher José Ortega y Gasset, never forgot the hatred in the expression of a tram-driver at a stop as he watched a beautiful and well-dressed young woman step down onto the pavement. ‘We’ve really had it,’ Marías said to himself. ‘When Marx has more effect than hormones, there is nothing to be done.’

The story may well be apocryphal, but it’s still very funny.

* The title of this post references the title of Isaac Rosa’s ¡Otra maldita novela sobre la Guerra Civil!