New art of giving lectures by Julio Cortazar
Since the Muses hardly come to see the ill-intentioned people, we thought to look in on the porteño Parnassus ourselves. The first Muse we bump into in our climb is the one who most made us argentines known in the world: the Oral Muse. Everybody aknowledge that we consider the glibness one of the Fine Arts. In the following essay, Julio Cortazar applies to Honduras our showy way of beating about the bush and, in the same time, he pillories a methodology that keeps on grinding the razors while it ain't got nothing to cut anymore.

The art of imposture by Alejandro Dolina
According to Franco Fortini, the advantage of being older is to know the record. Who has been acquainted to tango for a few years, that's to say the majority, only knows the Buenos Aires of the so-called tango-business and can't imagine how sweet, hospitable and sincere our milieu was before the big sale had started. Alejandro Dolina wrote the following lines, in which he seems to foresee the rickety circus that would have been put on shortly after, right in the passage to democracy, when tango was still made of passion, happiness and popular poetry.

The art of autobiography by Macedonio Fernandez
Everybody knows that tango is an army without private soldiers. So, how can the average user or the candidate-dancer make head or tail of this jumbled officers in this noisy carnival of marvels? Simple: he reads their CVs. That's the moment when the Macedonian Muse, who rules the creation of profitable autobiographies, starts working: with a well-done, uninhibited and made-to-measure autobiography, the brand new genius can be a dazzling himself at last, casting off the dress that made him look like, as Adolfo Bioy Casares used to say, a stranger seen from behind.

The art of failure by Juan Sasturain
In course of time, due to the mania the reality has for jostling its way through our illusions, we had to accept the too many times fullfilled circumstance of being defeated. Bertold Brecht once said that for small fishes even a failure is often an income; small fishes like detective Robledo, hero of all us who try to lose with style, who is here hunting for a very big fish.

The art of encounter by Alejandro Agresti
Our nighbours who live north the Rio Grande Do Sul say that life is the art of encounter. Then, there is a Muse who governs the in and out traffic - concerning us, only the out. It's her we invoke when our tango-partner leaves us, it's always her we beg to make our ex-partner meet someone like Eubeba. For the Milongas for one year section, we publish here the first part of a story by Alejandro Agresti who, despite he's now working for the Walt Disney Corporation, truly represents the porteño spirit at its best.

The art by two by Mariano Kairuz
Our most devoted readers won't need an explication for our periodical attention to wrestling. Except for professionalism and personal dedication, where the catch is leading over the dance, there is a close resemblance between wrestling and the so-called tango-show. That's why we are pleased to issue the review of a book about the Josè Ricardo Gattone's bruised life. He has been a precursor of free-style, and a model for whoever would like to follow his steps, and his blows, on the ring or on the Saavedra Tangodrome's dancefloor.

Minima tangalia - Reflections from damaged tango
by MC Ningùn Bobby, El Moplo & Tj Locatelli

Sixty years after the Adorno's "Minima Moralia - Reflections from damaged life", The Tangueros Quarterly Review has set to work its think-tank - that gives you an idea of the review - in order to circumscribe the same reflections to a field of action, the tango, which is certainly smaller, but not less damaged. We are proud to present our shockproof readers the results of the research on the wounds: in six months only, and without cribbing too much, our three brains have dig out the Minima Tangalia's first aphorisms, which go into the noble Moralia like the Three Stooges into Theodor Wiesengrund. These are the titles:

The tongue ever turns to the aching nothing - an introduction by Jean Fajean
Tanguistas on Mars - the electrotango before it goes out of fashion
New faults for tango dancers - what's new, and what's tango, in the tango nuevo?
Parva licet - the tango masters according to Damon Runyon