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Samuel Washington, RIP

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2011.02.02

I've just learned that a former colleague died two years ago when I was in deepest, darkest Japan. Apparently he died of heart failure due to an undiagnosed congenital problem while exercising.

He was an unusually decent and interesting.

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