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In his Iberia (Random House, 1968), James A. Michener said duende “now dominates Spanish conversation” and “seems to have become the sine qua non of Spanish existence,” whereas in previous visits to Spain he had not heard it at all.
When a performer is inspired, it is said that he, or she, “tiene duende” (`has it').
Besides going to Valencia for paella, the compleat traveler in Spain should experience duende . This is not easy to arrange, however, for duende , unlike paella, cannot be made to order.
There is a term in English for a tennis player reaching a height, for a brief stretch or longer, when he cannot miss, and tennis people call it zoning . I have not heard it used in other cases, but when used it seems to equal tener duende . I do not know whether that use of duende has reached Portuguese speakers in Brazil or Portugal, but if it has not, it probably will soon, because so many Portuguese speakers are bilingual in Spanish.
Like Italian, Spanish has estro , from the Latin oestrus `gadfly' (English estrus ) to denote artistic inspiration (and female sexual heat), but duende goes further.