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amazing but obvious

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2019.08.07

Cheers to Cloudflare for taking the amazing but I have to say rather obvious step of taking 8chan off the air. There's only so much that anyone should really expect a business to endure, and if one involves itself in censure for the good of the planet so be it, says I.

It's on a sad note that I said goodbye to my friend The Chako. After twenty+ years in Toronto, she's decided to leave the city. The second friend to do so. I wonder if I'm not next.

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If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax, I would limber up, I would be crazier than I've been on this trip. I know very few things I'd take seriously any more. I'd certainly be less hygenic... I would take more chances, I would take more trips, I would scale more mountains, I would swim more rivers, and I would watch more sunsets. I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it all over again, I'd have many more of them, in fact I'd try not to have anything else, just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of my day. If I had it to do all over again, I'd travel lighter, much lighter than I have. I would start barefoot earlier in the spring, and I'd stay that way later in the fall. And I would ride more merry-go-rounds, and catch more gold rings, and greet more people and pick more flowers and dance more often. If I had it to do all over again - but you see, I don't.

—Jorge Luis Borges