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More About Carmina Vacaloura!

Fans of this Galician jazz cartoon share some excellent info — and I explore a couple of interesting questions . . .

Cynthia Giles
12 min readJan 17, 2021
TV Galicia recently posted a long Twitter thread on the making of Carmina Vacaloura

I had a fantastic time writing The Improbable Charm of Carmiña Vacaloura. But it’s been just as fascinating to hear from fans of this unique work.

If you haven’t read my original post — and equally important, watched the video — what follows may seem nonsensical at first. Ideally, though, it will arouse curiosity and send you back to check out the starting point.

If you have read the original post (and didn’t hate it), I’m pretty sure you will appreciate these updates, explanations, and insights.

A Note from Pilar

Up to December of 2020, fewer than a hundred potential readers had viewed The Improbable Charm of Carmiña Vacaloura. That’s a very small number — especially considering that the story was “chosen for distribution” by Medium arbiters, and appeared in a very fine pub like The Junction.

So it seems that plenty of people had a chance to read the original story, but few actually did. Which wasn’t really a surprise, since it doesn’t fit into any neat category, and doesn’t have anything to do with relationships, current issues, or self-improvement.

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Cynthia Giles
Cynthia Giles

Written by Cynthia Giles

Writer at large, Ph.D. in humanities. Persistently curious! Publishes "The Misfit Writer" on Substack. Launching Complexity Press, Autumn 2024.

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