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sharper knives mean better cutting

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Halifax, 2004.05.15

Today I was given a late Christmas gift. It's a knife sharpener.

And it works very, very well. It's one of these. Now my kitchen knives cut food without much actual pressure - almost as if their own weight were enough to do the slicing. I'm pleased.

rand()m quote

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

—Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time