[Tango-L] Pity the poor Milonguru

[larrynla@juno.com]

A while back I chatted with a frequent partner at a milonga.  She had 
just gotten back from her second trip to Buenos Aires and she was 
disillusioned.  "Milongueros are just fat little old greasy men who 
want to grab my ass!"

Being Very Very Wise I refrained from saying I thought her ass was a 
fine example of natural art and that I would love to grab it too.  Come 
to think of it, the rest of her is quite lovely.  Maybe that was the 
source of her disillusion.  I've heard that milongueros go from senior 
statesmen to old goats very fast in the presence of a beautiful woman.  
After all, they're only human.

The "only human" theme came up again just a couple of weeks ago on the 
phone while talking to an occasional tango partner.  She had spent the 
entire summer in Buenos Aires and thought that a great time to go 
there.  It is their winter, but BsAs winters are not unpleasant, 
especially when you spend a lot of time in milongas which never use air 
conditioning.

"After a few weeks they got to know me and I started getting to dance 
with dancers who friends there told me were some of the top 
milongueros," she said or something close to that.  "Their dancing was 
so smooth and their leads so great I didn't have to worry about getting 
bumped or guessing what he wanted me to do and they really knew the 
music."

But eventually, she said, it got boring.  They were a little too good, 
a statement that puzzled me and does still.  When I tried to get some 
details that would clear up the issue she could not put her finger on 
the problem beyond saying she expected more, somehow, from milongueros.

"Were they just a bunch of old guys?" I asked.  No, a few of them were 
younger, a couple really good looking, maybe professional dancers.

Could it be that we non-Argentines have so exalted the abilities of 
milongurus of both sexes that anything short of magical abilities 
will disappoint us?


Larry de Los Angeles
http://ShapechangerTales.com - Immortal Shapechanger series web site
short story "The Forest Demon" added



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