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mrMagenta
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RE: thoughts about duende (in reply to HemeolaMan)
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Thanks a lot for the links Kate! Just started reading it and allready i've found gold.. like the following: "The Muse stirs the intellect, bringing a landscape of columns and an illusory taste of laurel, and intellect is often poetrys enemy, since it limits too much, since it lifts the poet into the bondage of aristocratic fineness, where he forgets that he might be eaten, suddenly, by ants, or that a huge arsenical lobster might fall on his head things against which the Muses who inhabit monocles, or the roses of lukewarm lacquer in a tiny salon, have no power."
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Date Aug. 21 2007 19:37:58
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RE: thoughts about duende (in reply to Guest)
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o.k heres my take on duende. duende is like banging an ugly chick...its mystical
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Date Aug. 24 2007 15:05:45
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RE: thoughts about duende (in reply to Ailsa)
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actually im the guy in the straw hat with the fiddle o.k im logging off now
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Date Aug. 24 2007 15:32:56
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gato
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RE: thoughts about duende (in reply to HemeolaMan)
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Yes, HemeolaMan, I always thought it was a, 'duality of states, in of one and of another,' quite like meditation where you are performing the mantra, and experiancing the stillness, both in the totality of the meditative state. Whereas, in music you perform technically, and express the creative-emotive, both in simultaneity. Though I always see it as discriptive of the context of the useage of the word. So you really have to have an awareness of what it is that you are describing, in context. Then of course, I am willing to be educated, though that is my take on the meaning of the word 'duende', 'anyone else? Oh well.... Gary
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Date Aug. 25 2007 2:13:49
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NormanKliman
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RE: thoughts about duende (in reply to HemeolaMan)
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Hi everyone, I've just joined the forum and this post caught my eye. There's a concept known as samadhi, which is defined by Webster's as follows: n. Hinduism, Buddhism. contemplation of an object of meditation, seen as one stage in which the distinction between subject and object is preserved, and another stage in which all distinctions are completely absorbed. I don't know much about this, because I just stumbled across the word in the dictionary one day, but it sure sounds to me like what HemeolaMan said about a ringing telephone bringing one back to reality. Now don't get me wrong: Samadhi is much more than daydreaming, and, as someone else has mentioned, there's a lot of airy-fairy nonsense said about duende. But I think there's some real food for thought here. When you become completely absorbed in something, your ego is sometimes pushed into the background, and that might happen during a particularly engaging conversation, hot performance or, uh, just watching TV. You can become absorbed in your instrument or in the singer or dancer that you're accompanying. On several occasions, I've seen how flamenco artists, when really absorbed in performance, will look confused and short of breath immediately after the last note has sounded. People are applauding but the artists don't immediately react. It looks like they have to come back from... somewhere. Obviously, distractions are the biggest obstacle to entering this state of total absorption, and I suspect that rhythmic imprecision is the most commonly ocurring distraction. Aside from people throwing things at you, of course. Just a few rambling thoughts. I'd enjoy reading other people's opinions on this subject. Norman
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Date Sep. 1 2007 14:55:00
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