sometimes, I hate being right
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Toronto, 2004.12.28
When the news of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean first came out, and they were talking about a death toll of 3500, I said to my girlfriend, "These things are never this simple. This is going to have wound up killing 50,000 people."
Most of my grim prophecies go awry. I wish this one had.