COLUMN #1, APRIL 10, 2001
The Continuing Adventures | Don George

At the Andersen Pastry Shop in the Tokyo City Air Terminal on 25 August, I scrawled: 'Almost exactly two years ago, in another journal, I wrote, "At last, I have begun." At that time, I was moving from one stage - the summer after college graduation - to another in my life. But I realize now that it is false to isolate any one point in my experience as a beginning: I begin as I continue; I continue as I begin.

'Tokyo is another world from Indonesia, it is true, but I am a living link between those two worlds: Thyrsus of the remembered, the imagined, and the real, I gain life as they gain life in me.

'Now, to return: remembering the children, the beaches and palms, the music and dance, all bright colors and graceful lines, this immersion in the sensual real - to continue to begin.'



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