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and the weather has broken

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2013.07.19

For once I got really lucky with the weather. I was carrying home a laptop for study purposes this weekend (it has the practice quiz software for my upcoming CIA exam) and made it home just before six. Mere minutes later, the sky really opened up. It was some of the hardest rain I've ever seen in this city, turning the air that silver semi-solid way that it gets in a typhoon in Tokyo (though much more briefly).

I doubt I was home even ten minutes.

rand()m quote

Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

—Hermann Goering