Monk Quixote

I was think­ing this morn­ing. Dan­ger­ous occu­pa­tion. Can lead to all sorts of unin­tended con­se­quences. Such as real­is­ing that ‘unin­tended con­se­quences’ is kind-of the theme of this post.

I was think­ing about duende. Again. Duende, in my little-bear brain expla­na­tion, is the spirit of self-annihilation that we all carry around within us. The bat­tle with duende is what gives us great art, music and dance. There is less said about duende and lit­er­a­ture, pre­sum­ably because this is based on the oral tra­di­tion of Span­ish gyp­sies. (more…)