Muleta Muleta A muleta is a stick with a red cloth hanging from it that is used in the final third ("tercio de muleta" or "de muerte") of a bullfight. It is different from the cape used by the matador earlier in the fight ("capote de brega"). The muleta obscures the sword, and as in his earlier work with the cape, the bullfighter uses it to attract the bull in a series of passes, demonstrating his control over it. The red color of the muleta is actually unnecessary, though, as bulls are dichromatic, meaning neither the cape nor the muleta color
A Piece of Monologue the walls now bare and uncluttered, he chose to let them remain that way. As James Knowlson puts it in "Damned to Fame" (p 650): “Life here emulated art, or at least echoed the mood that inspired it.” The oxymoron "Birth was the death of him" evokes a fusion of the two events. We find this in "Breath", in which a stage littered with rubbish is accompanied by a faint cry, followed by inspiration, silence, expiration, another cry and silence again. End of piece. To access his memories (i.e. to see the wall) the man in "Monologue" has first to