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woke up laughing

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Sydney, 2001.02.09

I woke up laughing this morning. I'd been having the strangest dream, as the saying goes, in which I was hanging around in some kind of bar or inn or something and had watched the people I was hanging out with go off to get some food. I though, as I watched them go, that they were too clueless to actually find food. And I was right.

They came back, without any success. One of them was so hungry he was eating the leather case from his mobile phone.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl