sleep-walking lens purchase
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one 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.
The Japanese refer to th elens-buying addiction as the "lens swamp". I like the Japanese name!