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Chinese medicine

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2024.10.22

I'm trying some new Chinese medicine that's supposed to help prevent migraine. I had some immediate success with the first attempt but then not so much. But one thing's for sure, it tastes like a type of banana bread where the secret ingredient is fine shavings from the pink eraser at the back of a pencil from the 1970's. Or, as Peppa Pig and friends had it:

Wait, carpet-flavored yogurt? Why would...

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My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

—Indira Gandhi