The Basque History of the World Quotes

“ENEMIES OFTEN become mirror images of each other.”
― Mark Kurlansky, The Basque History of the World

“There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.”
― Mark Kurlansky, The Basque History of the World

“Revolutions are always easier to admire from across the border.”
― Mark Kurlansky, The Basque History of the World

“What stronger denunciation of an agrarian society than the charge of bestiality? Even in modern times, when Basque peasants engage in the duel by insults known as xikito, the accusation of bestiality remains a classic attack. And though to most people, sex with a goat would seem sufficiently perverted, it was not even conceded that they had conventional goat sex. It was group sex, and the goat sometimes used an artificial phallus, with the intercourse sometimes vaginal and sometimes anal. According to some accounts, the goat would lift his tail so the women could kiss his posterior while he broke wind. The”
― Mark Kurlansky, The Basque History of the World