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Sydney, 2000.10.01

Saw the fireworks come down the river from Homebush Bay to the Harbour Bridge. Then the bridge all but exploded. Really, really something! The Aussies have gone completely nuts over these Olympics, and rightly so. What a fine thing they've done.

rand()m quote

When destiny comes to a man from outside, it lays him low, just as an arrow lays a deer low. When destiny comes to a man from within, from his innermost being, it makes him strong, it makes him into a god…

—Hermann Hesse