Fragments

In this 1934 tango, Discépolo paints the portrait of a century where moral distinctions collapse: the thief is worth the honest man, the scholar worth the fool, everything jumbled together like items in a pawnshop window. A piece both disillusioned and fiercely lucid.

The incommunicable, according to Pierre Klossowski: a quote drawn from Les lois de l'hospitalité, on the meeting of two idiosyncrasies that recognize each other in what they can share with no one else — until one of them, exposing itself to the world, betrays that silent pact.