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 ____________________________________________________________ Buying a home? Click here for free information on find the home of your dreams. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2131/fc/PnY6rbv81E62PIOqlMD16W28B2SkP0mb8o2u0rDSlN7et1onn7KD4/ _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
