Quotes
List here any quote, from Noel Perrin's book Giving up the Gun. Quotes that inspire you, or give you a strong visual image, or maybe you just admire the author's use of words . . .
poetic, lyrical, straightforward, cultural, etc . . .
We are reading Giving Up the Gun in celebration of Noel Perrin's birthday: September 18, 1927.
It’s probably fair to say that military glory was the goal of every well-bred male in sixteenth century Japan, except a handful of court nobles in Kyoto. Their goal was literary glory.
ReplyDeleteInterest in the arts ran high, too. Career military officers – that is to say, members of the bushi class -– were expected to read and the classics between battles, while in 1588 the senior military commander in the whole country gave a series of poem parties. A timely poem could sometimes even save a man’s life.
ReplyDelete‘Cannon and firearms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the devil,’ said Martin Luther.
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