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St. Valentine's Day

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2010.02.10

In Japan, St. Valentine's Day is a curious affair in which females buy males chocolate. This year, we'll be launching a business.

It's a diamond engagement ring business, and we're essentially ready to go. It occurred to me that Valentine's Day would be a fine start day, something we can use "in the literature" for the life of the company.

rand()m quote

Capitalist production, therefore, only develops the techniques and the degree of combination of the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the worker.

—Karl Marx