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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2010.05.08

Mari's had her first guitar for only three days. But today she played her first song.

Granted, it's a song of such relative simplicity that she was able to teach even me to pick it out on the piano. But I'm damn impressed.

Here's a funny version of the same song, the "kaeru no gashou".

rand()m quote

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery