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cycling with a snapping turtle

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2017.06.12

As I was on a 13km ride, I encountered a snapping turtle on a wooded path - it had the trail to itself. I can't honestly remember having seen one on land in Toronto, before.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great people are almost always bad people.

—Lord Acton, 1834-1902