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Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584–1645) was a legendary Japanese swordsman, philosopher, artist, and ronin whose life became the stuff of both history and myth. Undefeated in over sixty duels, Musashi was a master of strategy whose innovation, adaptability, and relentless practice made him the Paganini of the sword: a virtuoso whose craft rose far beyond mere […]

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Damocles

The essence of a human life is in so many ways its natural orientation towards anything and everything other than death, negation, extinction and the oblivion of forgetting or of being forgotten and yet so many of our actions, behaviours and mental abstractions lead and leave us so perilously close to the abyss. There is […]