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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2008.01.13

My friend, who's recently bought not one but two cameras, suggested today that a very small black hole should be use as a lens for photography. The idea being that it would gather all of the light without any diffraction or internal loss.

I'm supposed to be a sci-fi writer, and I don't come up with anything that good....

rand()m quote

When the world is in accord with the Dao, fast horses are left to fertilize fields. When the world is not in accord with the Dao, war horses are bred in the countryside.

— Lao Tsu