twenty-seven years and one million words
Let's all be careful around rural Ontario this summer kids – the giant hogweed lies in waiting. Apparently this nasty invader species can cause third degree burns and blindness in people who contact its sap.
It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row