11 to this John Blackthorne responds: "Unless you win." There are no 'mitigating circumstances' when it comes to rebellion against a sovereign lord.This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world.If the Catholic part's true, he told himself, perhaps the rest is too. All his life he had heard legends told among pilots and sailormen about the incredible riches of Portugal's secret empire in the East, how they had by now converted the heathens to Catholicism and so held them in bondage, where gold was as cheap as pig iron, and emeralds, rubies, diamonds, and sapphires as plentiful as pebbles on a beach.This house is Spanish or Portuguese, he thought aghast. Then he noticed the crucifix in its niche. The water in an odd-shaped gourd was warm and tasted curious - slightly bitter but savory. Another was filled with a thick porridge of wheat or barley and he finished it quickly, eating with his fingers.
Another contained a fish soup and he drained that. One contained cold cooked vegetables and he wolfed them, hardly noticing the piquant taste. Beside him was a scarlet tray bearing small bowls. The ceiling was polished cedar and the walls were lathes of cedar, in squares, covered with an opaque paper that muted the light pleasantly. He was lying on a thick quilt and another was thrown over him. It was small and very clean and covered with soft mats. For a moment he thought he was dreaming because he was ashore and the room unbelievable. What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death? Quotes To think good thoughts … requires effort. It is set in feudal Japan somewhere around the year 1600 and gives a highly fictionalized account of the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu (here called "Toranaga") to the Shogunate, seen through the eyes of an English sailor whose fictional heroics are loosely based on William Adams' exploits. Shōgun is a 1975 novel by James Clavell, the first novel (by internal chronology) of his Asian Saga. Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.
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