![]() ![]() ![]() “ Vom Sinn der Sinne” (“The Sense of the Senses”) by Erwin Straus (1935) is one of the books I read with my mentor. Horst Tiwald is also a milestone in my personal development. “ Psycho-Training in WingTsun, TaiChi and Budo Sports” by my mentor Prof. In passing I grab “ Bruce Lee between Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do” by my teacher Jesse Glover, Bruce Lee's first student. Naturally I can’t leave Bruce Lee's “ Tao of Jeet Kune Do” to the flames either. … because a little further on I see five red must-have volumes, “ Chinese Classics”, in the original and translated into English by James Legge. Plenty of other strategy books also want to be saved, but I have to move on …, Not far from it I see the “ Book of Five Rings” by Miyamoto Musashi. I have various translations of this in different languages. In my strategy department I grab Sun Szu’s “ The Art of War”. The sequence of books which I am about to select is only determined by the bookshelves I walk past: Let’s pretend that all my books are individual examples that cannot be replaced. If a fire broke out, or if for some reason I only had five minutes to rescue as many books as I can carry, which ones would I choose? I could also approach the problem in a different way though: I even have a shelf for the most nonsensical martial arts books, as I also collect those! I even give shelf-space to books about methods of knocking people down from a distance, without even touching them, even though this is the most arrant nonsense. But which ones? I am somebody who has never given a book away – however daft that sounds. every two years, when new additions from Amazon make vacuum cleaning impossible and Simo distinctly unhappy – I think about taking leave of 80 % of them. Most of them are only repetitions and variations on older and better books. Well, for most of my 5000 or so martial arts books, not finding them again would not really be any great loss. However in 2014, as a birthday present for 2015 (!), Natalie and I promised Simo that we would at last clear the books off the floor this is because Simo had threatened to sort them by colour and size, then distribute them around the bookcases on several floors, which would have meant I could never find them again. ![]()
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