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Man on Wire

John Elkington · 25 August 2008 · Leave a Comment

   

Dreading vertigo, I went along with Elaine, Gaia and Hania to see the film Man on Wire this evening.  We were totally enthralled by it – and couldn’t stop discussing it as we walked from Soho to Charlotte Street to have dinner at Roka, in Charlotte Street, with Hania’s long-standing friend Emma. 

The food was exquisite, with a green plum sake that reminded me of a dinner I had many years ago in Tokyo with the Vice-Chairman of Sony.  Then we had three different sakes, each made from a different part of the rice grain and each from a different part of Japan.  After the first, he asked me what I thought of it.  I replied that it was like putting your tongue into an icy mountain stream – and being able to taste, in at least three dimensions, every pebble back to the source.  A quite remarkably delightful evening – and another today. 

Elaine's 'jewel' Elaine’s ‘jewel’ Posted at 10:29:00 p.m. on Monday, 25 August 2008 by John Elkington. Digg | Permalink

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

Like so many things in my life, blog entries blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. As explained on this site’s Home Page, the website and the blog are part platform for ongoing projects, part autobiography, and part accountability mechanism.

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