Eons ago, my BFF and I were wandering through a museum in Bruges, Belgium, when we stumbled on The Last Judgement by Hieronymus Bosch.  We must have parked ourselves in front of it for a good half hour (museums weren’t particularly crowded in those days) and yokels from California that we were, we were impressed.  The details and clever use of bodily orifices was stunning.  This book struck me as a secular Spanish version of same. Cela was a Spanish Nobel Prize winner, and this […]