この一週間(11/6~11/12)
◆世間では:
トランプ米大統領訪日・訪韓・訪中&APEC首脳会議:まだまだ〇〇ファーストが続くのでしょうか。。。
◆個人的には:日本ノルディック・ウォーク学会参加のため、倉敷に行ってきました。たぶん、倉敷を訪れたのは18年ぶりくらい。昨年の日本ウォーキング学会に続いてに学会参加です。仕事で学会に参加した際には、対象を絞り込んでいましたが、個人で参加する際には、貧乏根性が出てずっとセッションに参加したため、かなり疲れました。。。
○主な出来事:
・11/9(木) MCEI大阪支部 2017年11月度 定例会(大阪)
・11/11(土) 第6回 日本ノルディック・ウォーク学会学術大会(岡山・倉敷)
○本:「The Remains of the Day」Kazuo Ishiguro 著(Faber & Faber)
・Indeed, I can say I am in agreement with those who say that the
ability to draw up a go d staff plan is the cornerstone of any decent butler’s
skills.
・And yet what precisely is this ‘greatness’? ・・・ I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle
that sets the beauty of our land apart.
・Mr Graham would always take the view that this ‘dignity’ was
something like a woman’s beauty and it was thus pointless to attempt to analyse
it.
・It is sometimes said that butlers only exist in England. Other
countries, whatever title is actually used, have only manservants. ・・・ Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed
incapable of emotional restraint which only the English race is capable of.
・What you describe as “amateurism”, sir, is what I think most of us
here still prefer to call “honour”.
・I believe I have a good idea of what you mean by “professionalism”.
It appears to mean getting one’s way by cheating and manipulating. It means
ordering one’s priorities according to greed and advantage rather than the
desire to see goodness and justice prevail in the world.
・What I am trying to say ・・・ is that we were
much more idealistic generation. ・・・ we tended to
concern ourselves much more with the moral status of an employer ・・・ for our generation, I think it fair to say, professional prestige
lay most significantly in the moral worth of one’s employer.
・I believe it is accurate to say, viewed the world not as a ladder,
but more as a wheel.
・I mean to say, sir, that it is not customary in England for an
employee to discuss his past employers.
○これから一週間の予定:
・11/18(土) ノルディック・ウォーキング体験会(大阪・枚方)
・11/19(日) ノルディック・ウォーキング体験会(大阪・私市)
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