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juggling balls

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.03.04

I've come up an idea for a birthday gift this year. Juggling balls.

I made a new year's resolution that I would learn to juggle this year, as something I could do to entertain my son. So I'll need some of those leather bean-bag things. Rather than do the usual trick of just buying the thing for myself, this year I've informed my wife. Thoughtful of me, ne?

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov