if there must be trouble
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 2012.04.22
Thomas Paine said, "If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
I get the feeling I know what he meant. I wonder if this is how things felt in Europe in the 30's.
How I long for the anesthetic feeling of the early part of the exponential curve.