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long walk in the neighbourhood

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2012.10.21

We went for a long walk in the neighbourhood today. The weather was superb, and we'd been cooped up by lousy weather (and the general level of sickness among us) yesterday so I dreamed up the idea of looking about online to see what might be happening in our neighbourhood. I found the "Easternblock party", celebrating the cessation of construction on Queen street east, and something called "Soupstock". We also bought some excellent, nay stellar, fish at a market in a park. Yellow perch, if memory serves.

Hooray!

rand()m quote

Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

—Anton Chekhov