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the chako is almost a landed immigrant

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2003.04.22

Tonight I met Chako for dinner. She's applying to become a landed immigrant here in Canada, and has to learn a certain mastery of English. I helped her sort out a practice letter she was writing, and a brief essay. It was interesting; I'd sure hate to have to write something in any other language just to keep on living the life I'm living!

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