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X. Terrain

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:25:01 +0100

[Only about a third of the chapter, comprising ss. ss. 1-13,
deals with "terrain," the subject being more fully treated in ch.
XI. The "six calamities" are discussed in SS. 14-20, and the
rest of the chapter is again a mere string of desultory remarks,
though not less interesting, perhaps, on that account.]

1. Sun Tzu said: We may distinguish six kinds of terrain,
to wit: (1) Accessible ground;

[Mei Yao-ch`en says: "plentifully provided with roads and
means of communications."]

(2) entangling ground;

[The same commentator says: "Net-like country, venturing

XI. The Nine Situations

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:24:32 +0100

1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war recognizes nine varieties
of ground: (1) Dispersive ground; (2) facile ground; (3)
contentious ground; (4) open ground; (5) ground of intersecting
highways; (6) serious ground; (7) difficult ground; (8) hemmed-in
ground; (9) desperate ground.
2. When a chieftain is fighting in his own territory, it is
dispersive ground.

[So called because the soldiers, being near to their homes
and anxious to see their wives and children, are likely to seize
the opportunity afforded by a battle and scatter in every
direction. "In their advance," observes Tu Mu, "they will lack

XII. The Attack by Fire

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:19:28 +0100

[Rather more than half the chapter (SS. 1-13) is devoted to
the subject of fire, after which the author branches off into
other topics.]

1. Sun Tzu said: There are five ways of attacking with
fire. The first is to burn soldiers in their camp;

[So Tu Mu. Li Ch`uan says: "Set fire to the camp, and kill
the soldiers" (when they try to escape from the flames). Pan
Ch`ao, sent on a diplomatic mission to the King of Shan-shan [see
XI. ss. 51, note], found himself placed in extreme peril by the
unexpected arrival of an envoy from the Hsiung-nu [the mortal
enemies of the Chinese]. In consultation with his officers, he

XIII. The Use of Spies

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:16:26 +0100

1. Sun Tzu said: Raising a host of a hundred thousand men
and marching them great distances entails heavy loss on the
people and a drain on the resources of the State. The daily
expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces of silver.

[Cf. II. ss. ss. 1, 13, 14.]

There will be commotion at home and abroad, and men will drop
down exhausted on the highways.

[Cf. TAO TE CHING, ch. 30: "Where troops have been
quartered, brambles and thorns spring up. Chang Yu has the note:
"We may be reminded of the saying: 'On serious ground, gather in
plunder.' Why then should carriage and transportation cause

The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:23:15 +0100

YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly--Tom's Aunt Polly, she is--and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece--all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round --more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.

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Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:42:27 +0100

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Twilight

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:30:03 +0100

“Leaving now. Watching Twilight fade. Leaving behind what has already become hard memory. Moving forward into nights that new nightmares may yet shatter. When I was younger, I thought, ‘what sort of God would create a being that bled for a week from a wound between its legs, but didn’t die? What sort of God would allow innocents to be born into lives of hate and fear and abuse, then allow them to perpetuate the line?’ Later I added to that list, wondering what sort of God would allow an abomination like Clive Euxideos or Eppie’s father or my own father, to walk the Earth? The answer is obvious. Only a mad God. A god driven insane by the countless eons of darkness it was forced to endure before realizing it had only to utter four simple words... ‘let there be light.’ And in that light, I see what might be a future. And I can almost believe… that it could be mine.”

Twilight: In the Spaces Between

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:25:48 +0100

Middle Earth

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:56:26 +0100

How to Spread the Word-of-Mouse

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:35:16 +0100

Marketing experts agree, of all the state-of-the-art promotional tools available, word-of-mouth gets the best results. It’s the oldest and the simplest form of advertising. And, with your computer and the Internet, word-of-mouth translates into word-of-mouse.

Much of what I have to say here today doesn’t pertain specifically to children’s writers, it pertains to all writers. Though I assure you, I’ve been a full member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators since 1977, so I’ve sat where you’re sitting many more times than I’ve been a speaker, and often wondered how the heck that speaker was qualified to discuss the topic at hand. Since many of you have probably never heard of me, let me take a few moments to introduce myself.

World of Mouse

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:34:43 +0100

The Lost World

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:21:39 +0100

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth,−−a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good−natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys, it would have been the thought of such a father−in−law. I am convinced that he really believed in his heart that I came round to the Chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his company, and very especially to hear his views upon bimetallism, a subject upon which he was by way of being an authority.

Arthur Conan: Lost World

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:18:57 +0100

Essays on Middle-earth

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 03:50:38 +0100

Tolkien researcher Michael Martinez shares his knowledge and insights into Tolkien's Middle-earth. The award-winning Parma Endorion Web site has been used by scholars, teachers, librarians, and students from around the world since 1996. Essays cover topics ranging from "What does an Elf do in Aman?" to "Planning the Middle-earth wedding" to "The Wonders of Middle-earth". Martinez is also the author of Visualizing Middle-earth, available as a print-on-demand trade paperback or ebook from Xlibris. This special 3rd edition of Parma Endorion has been updated for eBook publication only, and it includes selected fan artwork from Anke Eissmann and Rich Sullivan.