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  sergeybp8 апреля 2015 г.

  ЭТО КНИГА НЕ О САМУРАЯХ И ДАЖЕ НЕ О ЯПОНИИ!!!

  Уж и не помню, когда такое со мной случалось последний раз, но чем ближе я приближался к концу, тем больше мне хотелось, чтобы книга не кончалась! Не хотелось покидать мир, в котором постигать новое - все равно, что дышать воздухом, о людях, которые interested in things that bored 90% of the country. И бежать, бежать, бежать "успешной" жизни "нормальных людей" (хотя в то же время научиться их жалеть).

  
  You should not know your father when you have learnt to despise the people who have made these things. Perhaps it would be all right when you have learnt to pity them, or if there is some state of grace beyond pity when you have reached that state.

  Написано остроумно, с юмором на грани сарказма. Например: Are you as bored and frustrated as you look? или Tell me if I’m boring you. No one had ever asked me if he was boring me who wasn’t.

  Из книги я наконец понял, почему так завораживает музыка Шопена, тот же Nocturne op.9 No.2: Chopin tried to produce the effect of a vocal line on the piano. Помню, мне не верилось, что такую музыку можно записать нотами :)

  В книге также содержатся практические рекомендации родителям вундеркиндов, например: why not teach her just one word a day & let her colour it in in a book wherever she finds it ;)

  Несколько цитат себе на память

  
  

  
  “I have a definition of success, and what success is to me is when an individual finds that thing which fulfills himself, when he finds that thing that completes him and when, in doing it, he finds a way to serve his fellow man. When he finds that he is a successful person. It doesn’t make any difference whether you are a ditch-digger or a librarian or someone who works at the filling station or the President of the United States or whatever, if you’re doing what you want to do and in some way bringing value to the life of others, then you’re a successful human being. It so happens that in my area, which is entertainment, that success brings with it a lot of other things, but all of those other things, the money, the fame, the conveniences, the ability to travel and see the rest of the world, all of those are just icing on the cake and the cake is the same for everybody.” -- John Denver

  … music was not about sound but about perception of sound which means in a sense that to perceive what it is you need also some sense of what it could be but is not which includes other types of sounds and also silence.

  If you accept that American novels should be written in English then it also follows that the Pope is a Jew.

  … the problem is that they are classicistic rather than classic, pursuing both truth and beauty not for themselves but because manifested in these forms in the great works of the past.

  The more you study any martial art the less likely you are to actually get in a fight and the less likely you are to put yourself in the type of situation where you have to fight.

  You need to be able to understand things you’re going to find almost impossible to believe. If you don’t learn to believe them now it will be too late.

  What you’ve got to understand is that you simply can’t afford to act as if you were dealing with adults.

  Any idiot can learn a language, all you have to do is keep going and sooner or later it all makes sense.

  … after that I became much more circumspect. I made it my policy to behave with perfect courtesy throughout—nothing is more infuriating to someone who is doing something quite outrageous. Goaded by frustration, they betray themselves sooner or later. There is really no need, I find, to be crude or offensive.

  I could build up a collection of 20 or so [fathers]. I felt ashamed, really ashamed of all the years I’d spent trying to identify the father who happened to be mine, instead of simply claiming the best on offer.

  Jonathan Glover is a modern Utilitarian, and the author of Causing Death and Saving Lives. He says before committing suicide you should change your job, leave your wife, leave the country.

  People don’t really like a piece of music until they’re used to it.
  

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