Friday, April 09, 2010

dreaming of tango

I'm working in a hospital in Buenos Aires. Everytime there is a ward round we go to the intensive care unit to check how our patients are doing. On the way out, in a bay almost hidden by a corridor I always listen to fuzzy sounds of tango. The other day I ventured to see who was there. I saw a man, in his 70s, intubated and sound asleep, a small radio tuned into 92.5FM pouring tango and nothing else. I asked the nurse who this man was. She told me that he had been in coma for some time now and that his family had brought him the little radio so that he would be listening tango while he was sleeping. They said that if he was listening to tango, he would probably be dancing all the time in his dreams.

5 comments:

me said...

:-)

William Christopher Serve said...

I resemble that remark!

koolricky said...

this moment really touched and made me understand what it is to live tango. It's not to be possessed, to give up your life and your loved ones to go to Buenos Aires to dance everyday. To live tango is to allow yourself to be part of it. "Just" that...

Anonymous said...

:-)

Anonymous said...

What a poignant and moving post, KR.