Zhen – Delays “All warfare is based on deception.” (Sun Tzu, Chpt 1, 18) I have been in this bar so many times, it’s like reading the same book again and again. The pages are grubby and hold no surprises. I’m here alone tonight, hoping beer will wash my irritation with Sun. My head feels like it’s being split with each bass thud, makes it hard to think. DJ’s all sound the same don’t...
Lindon – Glass rooms “Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called ‘entangling’. From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for your coming, and you fail to defeat him, then, return being impossible, disaster will ensue.” (Sun Zi, Chpt. 10, 4 and 5) I’m hung over from the third formal welcome...
Zhen Yi – Caged “Be stern in the council-chamber, so that you may control the situation.” (Sun Zi, “The Art of War”, Chpt. 11, 64) Even from here, three blocks away, I can feel the small shock waves from the school as the walls crash down. It’s one of the last buildings to be demolished, the chalk stained white washed walls in which I completed my schooling. Dust is dislodged in my...