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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2008.01.12

Today I met a three-year-old named Reika who can read katakana and hiragana, the two basic syllabaries of the Japanese language.

Smart kid, so yaro?

rand()m quote

The human capacity to ignore inconvenient facts and avoid unpleasantness is immense

—John Walker, from the Hacker's Diet