I first encountered the cultural phenomenon of toro piscine when my wife and I read journalist and screenwriter Calvin Trilling鈥檚 travelogue Travels with Alice. While traveling in Provence, France, Trilling and his family stumbled upon the so-named event that translates into 鈥渂ull swimming pool.鈥� The Trillings learned that toro piscine is a competition in which the players (always young men)…
