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dead man on the Gardiner

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 1997.03.10

I noticed that the traffic was unusually light on the Gardiner Expressway this morning. It looked like this:

I realized that there was a dead man under a tarp on the highway. Someone had walked up there and had of course been struck and killed. Anyway, I went to work. This is the second time I've seen a dead person in my two years here.

I made this crop of the image.

rand()m quote

Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke