[Tango-L] Tanego

['Mash]

Sorry I know it's a VERY late post but I have been away.
I just had to add something...

The biggest lesson I have learnt so far is that it takes a lifetime to master Tango yet a suprisingly short time to master the ego.

Tanego [tan-eh-goh]
-noun, plural tanegos.

1.  the "I" or self of any tanguera/tanguero that evolves and develops during the dancers lifetime. 
2.  the self important socially self defeating part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social and physical environment. 
3. egotism, conceit, self importance: His tanego at the milonga had the similar effect of spreading layers of sticky molasses on the dance floor.
4. a tanguero's sock-in-the-pants / a tanguera's push-up-bra


'Mash 
London, UK
    

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:22:08AM -0400, Keith wrote:
>  What I???m getting at is ??? WILLYOU PEOPLE GET REAL! Igor, Stephen, I???m absolutely certain that there???s not one person on this
>  List who has mastered or perfected any aspect of Tango. And, if there is, show us what it is you that you???ve mastered or
>  perfected and I guarantee someone will show you someone doing it better. And I???m equally certain that the really great ones
>  will never accept that they???ve perfected anything but will always be striving to improve. Many people on this List just think way
>  too much of themselves or evaluate themselves far too highly. And I think most of us know who they are.
>