7 March 2011. Mild sun after meandering rain, evening streets glistening, yellow lights of cars...
Songs from afar, a milonga-- Olvido Adentro, and the Argentine case for existentialism. Ariel perched on velvet chair, attentive. Words matter, my schematic tramslations even, each line. Story of Jorge Cafrune--his willingness to sing, no matter the cost. Small casket of earth from the Norman coast, resting place of General San Martin--he would carry them on horseback from Buenos Aires to the province of Corrientes. Struck down by truck, in the night, only miles from home...
Ariel's questions., stories of a bicycle trip over the Pyrenees, into Spain...
Leopoldo Lugones on the metric structure of classical Spanish verse--octosílabos and the like--and how these forms became the basis for lyric song. Water birds. remembered, pato sirirí, Denrocygna viduata...where Sirirí is the local name. Something from the river--and the peoples who lived on her banks...
Paraná...
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