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the ice has finally melted

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2014.04.10

At last, the winter's ice is finally gone. We had a high of 18° today (about equivalent to the sum of all of the positive temperature values we've had all year), and that did it in at last.

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