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the paper cranes auxiliary force

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2012.06.12

Today, recognizing that my wife and I have plenty of time on our hands, I volunteered our help in making paper cranes for a wedding.

I'd run into my young cousin today at lunch hour and she explained that they'd designed their table settings in part around the availability of some paper cranes offered by an acquaintance. That acquaintance later decided to instead sell the things, so they're in a pinch.

Happily, Mari comes from a land where there are a variety of words for paper cranes and the things made out of them.

rand()m quote

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot