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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2024.05.26

The doll behind this aquarium is a "daruma". You typically paint in an eye when you start a project, and paint in the other when you finish it. I have a lot of one-eyed daruma hanging around.

Anyway, I put his reproachful glare to us by monitoring the baby goldfish

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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

—Lenny Bruce