:01:07
He wrote: I'm just back from Hokkaido,
the Northern Island.
:01:12
Rich and hurried Japanese take the plane,
others take the ferry:
:01:15
waiting, immobility, snatches of sleep.
:01:18
Curiously all of that makes me think of a past or future war:
:01:21
night trains, air raids, fallout shelters, small fragments
of war enshrined in everyday life.
:01:47
He liked the fragility of those moments
suspended in time.
:01:49
Those memories whose only function it being
to leave behind nothing but memories.
:01:53
He wrote: I've been round the world several times
and now only banality still interests me.
:01:58
On this trip I've tracked it with
the relentlessness of a bounty hunter.
:02:05
At dawn we'll be in Tokyo.
:02:31
He used to write me from Africa.
:02:33
He contrasted African time to European time,
and also to Asian time.
:02:36
He said that in the 19th century mankind
had come to terms with space,
:02:40
and that the great question of the 20th was
the coexistence of different concepts of time.
:02:43
By the way, did you know that there are emus
in the Île de France?
:02:58
He wrote me that in the Bijagós Islands
it's the young girls who choose their fiancées.