Tango y Cultura Popular ® English Edition TyCP Special | Page 40

led tango, impatient for
slowness. And it happened
to all of us like it does to
many young people of any
time whose bodies mistrust
their imagination, which at
the same time, mistrust their
bodies. In so many old late-
nights my feet inhabited,
those long dead milongas’
sounds have macerated, and
time brings the echoes of
those resonances. A series
of impressions that highlight
the teenage sensitivity, and
the citius, altius, fortius
(faster, higher, stronger)
unavoidable in the exaltation
process. And the process
itself is accomplished as a
rite of passage which implies
to go from the diurnal solar
sphere to the mysterious and
enigmatic world of the night,
loaded with so much vanity.
The emotional eruptions.
And the natural evolution
absorbing valid examples.
The Beau Brummell taught
us that “elegance height is
absolute simplicity”.
And Enrique Campos made
us remember, as he sang
with Tanturi those verses of
the poet José María Suñé:
If it’s so humble and simple
in its compasses
why then setting bad
example in its phrases.
(From my book Perfiles
milongueros)
José María Otero
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