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WORK My cousin Eliza claims that the Basques have a masochistic nature. When it is time to work, the Basques approach it as though it were a flagellation. It is as ifthey are punishing themselves. Eliza feels that the Basques want to sweat and toil in the old way. By the sweat o/your brow, she claims the Bible says. Ifyou are working for someone, you must give it your all, or it will not be money honestly earned. But I know they are not punishing themselves. For them, work is a cleansing. The Basques derive pleasure from it. They emerge from work as ifstepping out ofa bath. There are smiles on their faces when a laborious task is done. When it is time to play-be it at jai alai, handball, or the running ofthe bulls-they will playas hard as they worked. They will think ofnothing else. 60 ...

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