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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2008.11.19

Kenny saw his first puppetshow today. He and his mum went at the invitation of one of the mamatomo set. Ken spent the whole time before the show squirming and trying to roam around. But once the show began he was transfixed, and sat watching the whole thing in fascination.

(Or so I am told. I was at the office. We had another round of layoffs.)

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