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another long Monday

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2017.11.20

I'm taking an evening class, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit but it turns my Mondays into 9AM - 9PM affairs. A tad long, given my exhausting job and the non-trivial matter of the course. At the end of it all, today, I faced another brisk ride in strong wind.

rand()m quote

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