[Tango-L] Dearest Lucia...

[TangoDC.com]

Hi Lucia,

Thank you for judging my writing matter-of-factly, from the hip, and 
with gusto, while appending the caveat that you don't have time to read 
it. It's a wonderful way to promote literacy among the educated. I was 
hoping you could comment next on what it's like to dance with me, since 
we never have.

Your lips, my tuchas,

Jake Spatz
Washington, DC


Lucia wrote:
> What about Spatz's (a.k.a. TangoDC) excruciately
> boring, florid, untrue, un-researched idiosyncratic
> translations of Tango lyrics. It is more than a
> disservice to Tango, it is an affront to Argentine
> culture...
>
> Lucia
>
> Disclaimer: My time is precious, I do not waste it 
> reading  Spatz' rambling rants...
>
>  --- Derik Rawson <rawsonweb at yahoo.com> escribió:
>
>   
>> Dear Andrea:
>>
>> Lets see...
>>
>> We have US Americans teaching Argentines how to
>> dance
>> Argentine Tango, and Buddhist psychologists named
>> Mark
>> Epstein teaching the Asians about Buddhism.  What
>> next
>> for US Americans to Mac Donaldize?
>>
>> Derik
>> d.rawson at rawsonweb.com
>>
>> --- andrea <ako31 at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> hi tine-
>>>
>>> there is a buddhist psychologist named mark
>>>       
>> epstein
>>     
>>> who wrote about a  
>>> similar experience in 'going to pieces without
>>> falling apart":
>>>
>>> "i noticed how suddenly quiet my mind had become.
>>>       
>> my
>>     
>>> everyday  
>>> thoughts had vanished, and the tension in my
>>> shoulders was gone. i  
>>> was momentarily undefended and curiously at peace.
>>>       
>> i
>>     
>>> wasnt trying to  
>>> relax, and i wasnt trying not to relax. everything
>>> was floating. i  
>>> was no longer centered in my thinking mind"
>>>
>>>
>>> this is the closest to a tango moment as i can
>>>       
>> think
>>     
>>> of.
>>>
>>> my personal description is that it is the
>>>       
>> experience
>>     
>>> of being  
>>> completely in the moment w/o experiencing the 'i'
>>> that is me. my day  
>>> to day self is out of the way. it is a series of
>>> pleasurable moments  
>>> that are put together w/o the judging or observing
>>> mind. it is the  
>>> pure experience of my body moving w/o any effort,
>>>       
>> my
>>     
>>> thoughts w/o  
>>> tension, my conciousness w/o words, i am one in
>>> myself and in the  
>>> world. i call tango my valium.
>>>
>>> ( i await a comment from derick how its different
>>> for men than for  
>>> women, different and better in argentina, and 14
>>> ways i SHOULD  
>>> improve upon this)
>>>
>>>
>>> a n d r e a
>>>
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>>>       
>> Derik Rawson
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