Herman Lategan is a freelance journalist, previously associated with House and Leisure, Cape Style, Fine Music Radio and e.tv. In his day he was a dainty flâneur, but these days he prefers dark bars filled with fringe characters, harlequins and outcasts.
LONELY HUMANITY
The anthropology of abandonment
The loneliness of a horde of residents in Japan borders on an epidemic and may not be limited to that country. HERMAN LATEGAN looks at social isolation among the Japanese and how it leads to a dystrophy of love and humanity.
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I HAD already seen them on my first visit and stay in New York in the '80s. Stately women of a certain age wandering aimlessly through the streets of Manhattan.
Dressed in pearls and fur coats, dark sunglasses, red lips. Greta Garbo used to be one of them, she who didn't want to talk to anyone. There was a melancholy to these fragile swans, dripping in swish and satin.
This was not limited to women, men too were lonely, but mostly it was women who had survived their husbands. In Hillbrow, also in the '80s, I again encountered this prototype, only less sumptuous...
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JournalistHerman Lategan is a freelance journalist, previously associated with House and Leisure, Cape Style, Fine Music Radio and e.tv. In his day he was a dainty flâneur, but these days he prefers dark bars filled with fringe characters, harlequins and outcasts.