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if there must be trouble

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2012.04.22

Thomas Paine said, "If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

I get the feeling I know what he meant. I wonder if this is how things felt in Europe in the 30's.

How I long for the anesthetic feeling of the early part of the exponential curve.

rand()m quote

The point isn't revenge. It is justice. Revenge is like a wave that washes up on shore - it always washes back out again. Justice is like the shore - it's still there after the wave comes and goes.

—commenter "JP" on a Rolling Stone article about the crooks running Wall Street