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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Sydney, 2000.07.01

Today we had a little taste of home: we got to pay GST for our train tickets and the movie tickets cost $28!

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