[Tango-L] Writing is like dancing

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Dear Bill,

I realize my last big post was turgid reading, and I'll condense it into 
something pithier after my thoughts have developed. If anyone can add to 
what I've said (or subtract from it), great-- it'll be of much use. If 
not, don't waste your time on it. I promise I'll try to write simpler 
stuff in the upcoming critique, which will have the benefit of coupling 
interpretation with videos that anyone with a high-speed connection can 
watch. That'll make it much easier for everyone to see what I'm talking 
about, and to take pot-shots at my little weather balloons as well, when 
they drift too far from the storm.

Jake Spatz
DC


Euroking at aol.com wrote:
>  
>  
> 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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