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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a 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

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

—Steven J. Gould