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it's only 24 prefectures after all

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2024.10.19

I was looking at the map of my travels in Japan and realized that although I'd colored in Gifu as if I'd spent time there, I can't recall actually having done so. So I'm restating my map. Saga was only the 24th of 47 prefectures I've visited.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009