Don’t you just love it when you’re reading a book that you can’t wait to get back to? Well that’s how I feel about Twelve Minutes of Love by Kapa Kassabova, (a recommendation from Kathleen Jones on her great book blog – her review is also on Amazon.) I’m also reading some great poetry but more of that another time. What with everything there is to do after a busy weekend with my daughter there hasn’t been much time for reading and now there isn’t much time for blogging as I need to get back to the book! So I’ll leave you with a quote from this beautifully written homage to tango – passionate, intimate, compelling – like the dance itself. Anyone know where I can learn to dance theTango?
Tango is introverted, brooding, physically controlled, mentally involved, musically complex and emotionally dark. It does for you and to you a number of things that pretty much cover the entire human experience. Here are a few. It sings the passing of time and the wreckage it leaves in its wake. It speaks of home, heartbreak, the city, the drunken night, and your mother.
It’s going to be tough finishing this – any ideas what I should read next????
A Dance to the Music of Time …. GW
All twelve volumes?! I’m not sure I’ve got the stamina.
Just discovered that she is a friend of Clive James and that they danced together often – and he has a tango studio as part of his penthouse flat – seems poignant now.
Ax
I remember watching the tango being danced all the way down the Ramblas in Barcelona by a svelte couple who danced to the music on a boom box. They turned on the music, did their dance, then moved twenty yards down and danced it again, Even under those circumstances it was elegant and impossibly sinuous,
Enjoy getting back to the book….
wx
Hi Av, sounds exciting! When I did my degree, one of my classmates went to a tango class and was partnered by …… Clive James. She was very small, young and pretty… I never could put the two of them together in such a ‘passionate’ context. Am sure he had the better deal! xx
Great story! I think that’s Tango for you – what works on the dance floor doesn’t necessarily work in life.
Ax