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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one 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?

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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

—George Santayana