Friday evening gave a talk at Meiji for a very general audience. The average age was probably in the sixties. But it was enjoyable. Attendance was not bad. A little less than a hundred, I think. My talk was titled: To Live a Journey with No End. It was tha last of the weekly series with four speakers around the theme of "Why Do We Go On Travelling?"
Here is the outline of my talk:
1. Introduction
-Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
-Ukiya Tojiro (1942-1965)
-Miyamoto Tsuneichi (1907-1981)
2. Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989)
3. J.M.G. Le Clezio (1940-)
4. On "World Photography"
-Yann-Arthus Bertrand (1946-)
-Sebastiao Salgado (1944-)
-Uwe Ommer (1943-)
5. On My Own "Travel Writing"
-The Chinese Tahiti (1992)
-The Aomori Note (2006)
Time being limited to 120 minutes with 15 minutes of Q & As, I couldn't get to the part 5. But in general it was well organized and I kept time as was expected.
For Chatwin and Le Clezio I owe them both a full-length study, respectively.
