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living "under postponement"

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kawasaki, 2020.04.14

Out for a stress walk just now, I noticed the wacky name of the neighborhood on a pole. It's "下作延". Literally, "under postponement". How could that be the name of a neighborhood. I've been meaning to record this for weeks now, glad I finally did.

Pretty fitting given that many of our plans are in question or outright postponed, but still. Wow. "Where do you live, Michael?"

"Underpostponement, in a short-stay apartment."

"Ehhhh?"

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.