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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

, 2014.08.04

We're at the cottage, and it turns out that the waterfront's become infested with an invasive species called "phragmites". Supposedly impossibly to kill without anything short of tactical nuclear weapons (from orbit; it's the only way to be sure) but I'm going to try. I've got the scythe out of the basement.

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