[Tango-L] Writing is like dancing

[Euroking@aol.com]

Great points,  but writing has one goal and that is to communicate. A major 
difference IMO  between dance and writing is the size of the audience. In 
dancing, unless it is  for stage or teaching the audience is very small. 
Writing, its  content and style determines and differentiates the size of 
intended audience  and actual audience. A well written and reasoned treatise  
utilizing derivative components of the English language from a Latin  or Romance 
based language is not as informative to many as a simple  statement coming 
from Anglo-Saxon based words, yet they can convey the same  thought. 
So while I  welcome Jake's comments, I agree with Sergio, forgive me Sergio 
if I am putting  words in your mouth, keep it simple. While I read and  
understand Jake's prologue (I needed to print it out and reread it several  times) I 
don't think, in retrospect it was time well spent and probably will not  put 
that much time into it in the future. Yesterday was a slow day.  In fact, at 
that level much more than 2-3  paragraphs can be mind numbing.  Good stuff 
but... 
Sergio, I  truly find your comments informative and enlightening and you have 
helped me  understand more of what Tango is or is not. I look forward to 
them. For that I  thank you. Jake, you also have made some good points, but I 
mentally don't want  to work that hard. But that is the choice I make... 
Just  some thoughts,
 
Bill in Seattle
 
 
 
In a message dated 6/8/2006 10:12:50 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ipolk at virtuar.com writes:

Writing,  especially here, is like dancing.

A writer is probably a leader.  Readers can submiss, surrender, rebel, or
even back lead depending of the  personality and skill of the leader.

Anyway, good dance is a good  dance, we know how it is in tango, right?

So writing can be simple,  sophisticated, consisting of standard strict
boring figures or highly  improvisational, irrational, without waiting for
the follower, it can be  even alternative. It can be musical and dull, or
leading vals under salsa  music, leading a dance of another barrio, without
observing the line of  dance, kicking others, beginning and advanced. And  so
on..

Igor.

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