twenty-seven years and one million words
My good friend Jonathan has announced that he's coming down for a visit later in the month. I haven't seen him in over three years. Well over three years. Wow. And now he'll be staying with us.
In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.
—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009