The Man Who Stood Still

By Gadfly on Sep 27, 2015

A taxi heading for Madrid comes to a tree across the road. The driver stops and his passengers - Santiago Gomez and his daughter Leocadia--get out. Santiago orders his daughter to accompany him and they go through the forest to a ruin left over from the war. He finds a burnt copy of Shakespeare on the ground, and Leocadia starts to read it. Santiago says that the burns show that the National Brigade fought there, but it was the Spanish Anarchs that won the battles. He tells Leocadia to give it t…