twenty-seven years and one million words
My first cold of the year, and I'm dizzy with fever.
It's funny, I have a tonne of reading to do but it's hard to focus when your head's slightly spinning.
In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.
—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009