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Japanglish

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2009.03.16

I've just had a disturbing report from Miyazaki. The boy has suddenly started speaking, and it's coming out between　言語. I mean, languages　の　間. He's baffling his gab, egad.

rand()m quote

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

—Sigmund Freud