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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?

rand()m quote

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

—Abraham Lincoln