I demand great justice!

[DJRubberducky]

The local bookstopre put Sun-Tzu in the business section.

That's also where one of the chain bookstores (I forget if it's B&N or Borders) has decided Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of the Five Rings should also go.

This one is *not* a prank or MF - I went looking through the history section, then the biographies section just in case, then finally broke down and asked someone, and they *pointed* me there, which is in fact where I found it.

Sad.

[Cain]

Just dont go there, Musashi is my personal hero, and when you read what he actually says about businessmen,(hehe) it almost makes up for it....

[Mangrove]

yeah scribe, i agree - doing A-level economics is a long way from warrior culture...lol..

musashi often gets chucked into business sections as well. in my local waterstones though it's in both 'martial arts' and 'mind/body/spirit'.

oh...did you know there's a new musashi bio out by kenji tokitsu? big think hardback monster  

[Cain]

Yeah? Im not surprised, Musashi did alot and started early (13 I believe). Kenji Tokistsu is a good writer too, I already have another of his books.

[Ghost In The Machine]

Yeah? Im not surprised, Musashi did alot and started early (13 I believe). Kenji Tokistsu is a good writer too, I already have another of his books.

But who would win in a fight?  Musashi, or Sun Tzu?

[Mangrove]

Yeah? Im not surprised, Musashi did alot and started early (13 I believe). Kenji Tokistsu is a good writer too, I already have another of his books.

have you read 'ki in the martial arts'? that's the only tokitsu i have, but i did get into it....translation was a little lumpy though - japanese to french to english...lol..

[Cain]

Yeah, I have that, in places it is abit annoying, but I was surpised when I found out it was a 3 way translation...

[Mangrove]

Yeah, I have that, in places it is abit annoying, but I was surpised when I found out it was a 3 way translation...

i've just finished reading 'hara - the divine centre in man'...or something like that. written in the 1950s by a german guy trying to explain the eastern notions of 'hara'....again, good read but lumpy. take an inscrutable oriental notion, put it in german and then into english? poetry it aint....

[East Coast Hustle]

Sun-Tzu and Musashi in the business section makes perfect sense, regardless of what the suthors might feel about being categorized as such.

hell, the reason I bought Art of War when I was 19 was to become a more effective drug dealer...pure dumb luck that it's even more suited to my current objectives. Also, the Japanese used to make their salarymen read the Book of 5 Rings and apply it's teachings to the business world, so it's only natural that the mouth-breathing americans would follow suit in a vain effort to play catch-up.

anyway, they don't really have a "subversion/revolution" section in Borders.

[Cain]

True, but I'm still going to kick the shit out of every business degree student I can tomorrow.  They deserve it for being rubgy playing deadbeats anyway.

anyway, they don't really have a "subversion/revolution" section in Borders.

I wondered why they gave me a funny look when I said my copy of the Communist Manifesto had no explosives index....