1779  Tango and the A Bao A Qu

Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:56:39 -0300
From: Alberto Gesualdi <clambat2001@YAHOO.COM.AR>
Subject: Tango and the A Bao A Qu

All this search of tango music and different options with people like Libedinsky, Gotan Project, Bajo Fondo , remind me a book from argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It is "The book of imaginary beings" , one of this beings is the A Bao A Qu, maybe this music that is coming now is related to this need to climb the ladder and not to interrupt the movement

warm regards
Alberto Gesualdi

To see the most lovely landscape in the world, a traveler must climb the Tower of Victory in Chitor .

A winding staircase gives access to the circular terrace on top, but only those who do not believe in the legend dare climb the tower.

On the stairway there has lived since the beginning of time a being sensitive to the many shades of the human soul known as A Bao A Qu.
It sleeps until the approach of a traveler and some secret life within it begins to glow and its translucent body begins to stir.

As the traveler climbs the stairs, the being regains consciousness and follows at the traveler's heels, becoming more intense in bluish color and coming closer to perfection.

But it achieves its ultimate form only at the topmost step, and only when the traveler is one who has already attained Nirvana, whose acts cast no shadows.

Otherwise, the being hesitates at the final step and suffers at its inability to achieve perfection

Its moan is a barely audible sound, something like the rustling of silk. It tumbles to the first step as the traveler climbs down and collapses weary and shapeless, awaiting the approach of the next traveler.

In the course of the centuries, A Bao A Qu has reached the terrace only once.







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