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Googling the quick and the dead

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2016.04.05

Google autocomplete completes a friend's name with the word "obituary"; he'd also cancelled the phone number I had. Naturally, I feared the worst. Especially when my emails to two of his accounts went unanswered even though I was sending him a three-year membership to a professional association.

But I tracked him down through one of his colleagues. He's alive!

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row