Monday, 22 September 2008
Random quote, unabashedly stolen from the tango hong kong website
"Music reveals a personal past which, until then, each of us was unaware of, moving us to lament misfortunes we never suffered and wrongs we did not commit. For myself, I confess that I cannot hear ‘El marne’ or ‘Don Juan’ [two tangos] without remembering in detail an apocryphal past, simultaneously stoic and orgiastic, in which I have challenged and fought, in the end to fall silently in an obscure knife -fight. Perhaps this is the tango’s mission: to give Argentines the belief in a bravepast, in having met the demands of honour and bravery." — Jorge Luis Borges
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4 comments:
Wow. I mean really wow.
Music does bring emotions back, even reveals memories long forgotten. At least in my case.
Bartek
Why would the tango be orgiastic, when it's just 2 people dancing together? By the way, thank you for teaching me that word.
that's how good tango is. lol. no, i think borges is talking about the "aprocryphal past" of Argentina, when these exciting things supposedly happened. Not that I know what know what apocryphal means.
Hot quote. Makes me want to tango.
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