From page 247 of the book: "...We finished our beer and walked along the street toward the center of activity in our quarter. Shanzenbach was able to find us and brought us all to an improvised stadium, complete with bleachers, in which a bull fight had been set up and was currently in progress. We sat in the bleachers, watching as young men, dressed in white, made aggravating pantomimes at two bulls, whose horns had been capped with metal and decorated with a string of flowers. The object was to comb off as many of the flowers as possible without getting butted by the bulls. It was all done in good spirits; no one would hurt the bulls, and the men, or rasteurs as they were called, invariably leaped out of the way of the charging beasts, jumping over the wooden fence and in front of the spectators to avoid injury. Shanzenbach especially liked this form of entertainment, since it was something he could bet on."
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