"...where you can see men with their clenched fists in their pockets, and rabid, defiant eyes; let me tell you, this is very different from the free and easy dwellers in Triana (Sevilla); take a sniff, and you will discover that something is smouldering here. At nightfall shaddows range along towards the centre of the town...a cigarette clings to their lips and their caps are pulled down over their eyes. They are only shaddows, but when you look around, they form quite a cluster. a cluster of staring, dogged eyes."
An illustration from the book "Letters From Spain" written and illustrated by Karel Capek, translated by Paul Selver, published by George Bles, London, 1931. Capek, (1890-1938), the Czech writer best known for his plays, wrote a number of travel books in an amused and urbane style which suffused his accompanying drawings as well. He invented the word 'robot'.

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