incongrouous

Updated: May 3, 2025

They departed in groups, each taking a different direction, toward the pine-covered mountains, toward the distant white farmhouses half hidden among fig and almond trees, toward the red rocks along the shore, and it was an absurd and incongrouous spectacle to see these heavy perspiring images, these tireless mourners, marching slowly through the resplendent green fields.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - The Dead Command: From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan