East and West [antikvár]

Caveat EmptorWeisheng Mu said to Confucius: 'Hey you! What makes you run around like this all the time? Is it to show off your clever tongue?'Confucius said: 'I don't flatter myself with having a clever tongue; I simply detest pig-headedness.'- The Analects of Confucius, 14.32Mr Salter's side of the conversation was limited to expressions of assent. When Lord Copper was right he said, 'Definitely, Lord Copper'; when he was wrong, Up to a point!''Let me see, what's the name of the place I mean? Capital of Japan? Yokohama, isn't it?'tip to a point, Lord Copper.''And Hong Kong belongs to us, doesn't it?''Definitely, Lord Copper.'- Evelyn Waugh, ScoopA word to the wise: I would not wish you to start this book under false pretences. I had better confess right away what it is not.First, this is not a book of memoirs. There may be a case for the giants of politics to write their memoirs, and even for the rest of us to buy and, conceivably, read them. They provide a slab of stone for historians to attack with their chisels, a doorstop for all but the most intrepid reader. Hulking self-justification is, however, rarely Lin interesting literary form. For those who have served in the political infantry, never rising to the greatest commands, the case for writing one'sWEST / 1