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"Tango 25: Sad severe tango
dance of love and death.

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Dance of night and men.

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Dance of the dark, kitchen
of the poverty of desire."

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"Shall we sharpen our
eyes and circle closer

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to the beauty of the husband?

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Carefully, for he was on fire.

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Under him, the
floor was on fire.

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The world was on fire.

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Truth was on fire.

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Around him, green fire blew
straight off every tree.

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He was almost never
sad, a God led him on,

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nor did he doubt his
feet which looked

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as Napoleon used
to say like this,

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I write myself between worlds.

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Now, what he wrote depended
on who he was with.

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Once he met Ray, he
began to write paintings,

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for Ray was a painter.

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In Ray's room, they work side
by side the husband talked.

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Ray liked learning about
places in the world

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for he had scarcely traveled,
and about books, for he did not

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read.

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"What are the Alps
like?" said Ray.

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"Aw from the plane
they look fragile,

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like pieces of pottery,
thin silences in between."

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"And up close?"

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"Up close, more like
cheese Parmesan."

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"Is it expensive?"

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"Parmesan--" "no
Italy" "Yes and no"

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"Do you stay with your
Italian, sweetie?"

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"She got married" "To who?"

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"A guy named Ricky"
"Are they happy?"

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"No, she had to
unlock him", she said.

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"Meaning sex?"

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"I guess"

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"You know what's good
for that is tango."

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"Good for unlocking?"

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"Yeah, cures the digestion too."

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"How do you know
these things, Ray?"

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"Well, remember Flor?"

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"No."

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"The one before Carl."

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"Carl?"

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"Carl was the one before Saul."

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"Oh."

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"Well, Flor was a tangoist."

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"That seems a long
time ago to me.

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Doesn't that seem a long
time ago to you, Ray?"

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"No, not so long.

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But you were married then.

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It was all different."

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"It makes me tremble."

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"What?"

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"To think back.

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I remember exactly how I
thought life would be."

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"Well, everyone has dreams."

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"No, not dreams.

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It was a precise picture."

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"What went wrong?"

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"Middlemen."

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"Sorry?"

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"Take the divorce, for example.

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It wasn't her idea to divorce
me, middlemen got to her."

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"Well, she knew you were
lying and sleeping around."

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"Ray, please, I
never lied to her.

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When need arose, I may
have used words that lied."

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"That's way too
philosophical for me."

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"Well, philosophers say, man
forms himself in dialogue."

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"That I understand."

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"Well, so did she."

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"Now, there you're wrong."

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"Why do you say so?"

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"Because I saw her go down.

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She was far stronger than me.

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She went down.

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Everything I did,
I did for her."

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"Why are you yelling?"

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"I'm going to see her
this weekend, you know."

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"You're insane."

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"I'll write first."

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"She threw you out three years
ago, why not leave her alone?"

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"I have faith."

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"In what?"

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"In us."

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"There is no us."

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"Deep pure faith."

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"But why?"

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"Oh, Ray, you know, I wish
I lived in another century."

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"You used to say, the body is
the beginning of everything."

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"I don't believe that anymore."

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"You still sleep around."

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"I do."

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"You make me sad."

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"Yeah."

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"What do you hope for now?"

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"Me?

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To be reborn as a great
Warrior in the year 3001."

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"On a June evening?"

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"What did you say?"

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"It's a line from a tango song."

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"Yeah, on a June evening."

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So they went on working,
the one at his easel

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and the other on the
floor by the lamp,

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while high black
banks of twilight

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came and stood around
them close as sentries.

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The husband was making a plan of
the Battle of Amphipolis, which

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he hoped to transfer
to a wall of his house

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using acrylic paint
and small flags.

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Why Amphipolis?

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This bloody Athenian defeat
began with one surprise night

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move in 413 BC.

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Blurring a line between
courage and folly,

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the Athenians attacked
uphill in the dark

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against fortified
Syracusan positions.

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Its originality at first
brought success to the plan,

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then the Syracusans
grasped it and charged,

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and disorder flowed everywhere.

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Visibility was by moonlight.

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They could see outlines,
but not who was who.

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Hoplites caught turning
in a space no bigger

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than a stairwell,
because those Athenians

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who were already routed
and descending the cliff,

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met others arriving
fresh to the attack

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and took them for enemies.

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Moreover, constantly
shouting the password,

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they revealed it to the enemy.

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And with this word coming
at them wrongly in the dark,

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the Athenians panicked.

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Friend fell upon friend.

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It was like a beautiful boiling
dance, where your partner turns

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and stabs you to death.

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Cauldron of red Sicilian
moon and white Greek lips.

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The husband hums as he works.

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Rectangles for the
Syracusan outbuildings.

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Broken lines for the
brave Athenian assault.

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Triangles for likely
places of confrontation.

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Black dots of varying sizes
for estimated casualties

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along the path of the route.

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In his mind, he is
composing a letter,

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to explain to her again
about the fog of war

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and the need for endurance and
the splendor they we'll come to

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in the end.

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We need a new password,
he whispers with a smile,

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as he imagines himself
arriving, exhausted and hoarse,

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dusty from the road, riding
a tank one fine evening,

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one June evening.

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