William Scott Wilson
Autor von The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi
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William Scott Wilson was born in 1944 and grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College in 1966, he was invited by a friend to join a three-month kayak trip up the coast of Japan from Shimonoseki to Tokyo. This eye-opening journey, beautifully documented in mehr anzeigen National Geographic magazine, spurred Wilson's fascination with the culture and history of Japan weniger anzeigen
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If you have a dogma you're not a liberal, you're a conservative.
PS. Having pictures doesn't make it a graphic novel. Novels have narrative, a story. The Tao Te Ching could be retold as a story but that would likely obscure the message. Regardless this did NOT have a narrative and is not a novel, it's the Tao Te Ching with pictures and leftist dogma.
PPS. I may be overly harsh above regarding dogma but that's how I remember it. I'll try to take another look.
2023-12-02: I didn't remember it and checked it out again, we'll see how that goes.
2023-12-06: I'm basically reading it as I pass through the kitchen. I'm at #4 (5?). #1 was way off. #2 or 3 compared Mao (a murdering ass clown) to the Master. Yeah, I'm not sure they read the same Tao Te Ching I did.
2023-12-29: It went back last weekend. I did a quick flip through and I don't think anyone involved has read the Tao Te Ching with any understanding.… (mehr)