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swimming in water

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Vancouver, 2002.07.10

I swam in the ocean, today.

Been something I've been meaning to do since I got back. It was beautifully cold. Then I tried to walk around the seawall, still in my trunks. And those trunks still chafe; you'd have thought I'd a learned when I walked the whole beach in Manzanillo. Nope.

rand()m quote

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous

—Robert Benchly