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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2001.07.06

And now, the shopping for housewares. I've got myself a set of knives. Let's see if I can start cooking for once in my life...

Fun retro fact: I did start cooking. As of 2016, I still have the knives, and they're in pretty good shape. And guess what, thirty-year-old me, your wife loves it when you sharpen them for her. In fact, during the first years of our life together, I did most of the cooking, because she worked long hours. As is the culture in her native Japan, where you lived for five years! Oh, and you have two kids.

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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

—Lenny Bruce