7 October 2009. Gray light over hills at dawn, a single bird...
El Alma del Payador--the soul of the story-singer... Santos Vega, a gaucho from around 1830 who lives on in myth because of a challenge from the Devil in human form--the figure of Juan sin Ropa. "Una sombre triste que vaga por las lagunas de la pampa..." A somber shadow that wanders amidst the lagunas of the pampa... Playing upon any guitar left forgotten nearby a well--aljibe, the old Moorish word. Constantly associated with water, and an invocation of the wind...
José Larralde in the film version of Obligado's classic--half-western, half-Whitman--from 1971...
Bajo un algarrobo...
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