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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2014.01.17

So, I have a TV for the first time in 9 1/2 years. So far, so good .. we don't have an antenna and Ken remains in the dark that there's such a thing as regularly scheduled television. He once saw something playing on a TV in a store and watched for while as I did something. Then he tapped my arm and told me that he wanted the show, not whatever was currently on. Glancing at it, I saw that it was a commercial.

"I know the feeling," I told him. I suspect we've got a third generation commercial-muter on our hands.

But that would involve getting an antenna. One of these months....

rand()m quote

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

—Sigmund Freud