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my bike has brakes again

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2013.04.18

I've paid someone to reinstall the rear brake on my bike. The pads were shot (after three months of service on the front wheel, they were rotated last year to the back) and the cable kept disengaging from the brake handle, so I simply removed the whole thing last October. But it slowly started to feel maybe a tad unsafe so I chickened out and took the thing to MEC across the street from my office.

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