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sleep-walking lens purchase

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2007.11.28

A Japanese friend of mine bought a lens in total stealth mode. Even he seemed unaware that he was doing it; it just turned up in his briefcase with a receipt and a curiously light feeling in his wallet.

I told him that he'd just stepped onto a slippery slope, and that sooner or later he'd wind up ... well, like me with my little collection.

my collection

The Japanese refer to th elens-buying addiction as the "lens swamp". I like the Japanese name!

rand()m quote

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

—-Antoine de Saint Exupery