Spain from the Pyrenees on down
I contemplate what an inferno
In ruins and misrule
And this is what suits me
I enter if the Squint-eye lets me
To give good testimony
That the Cholera and Don Antonio [Cánovas del Costillo, prime minister who was forced from office by the end of that year]
Are coming to be one and the same.
(Don Quijote, Madrid, 1892)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 