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What does Miyamoto Musashi and Groo the Wanderer have in common? Aside from being swordsmen whose skills with their blades are much respected and feared.

One is a Japanese swordmaster and one is a wandering swordsman. The Japanese Swordsman is a larger folk hero in Japan famous for the Book of Five Rings and his duels with other famous or infamous warriors in his time. Groo the Wanderer is drawn by Sergio Aragonés, rewritten, coplotted and edited by Mark Evanier, lettered by Stan Sakai, and colored by Tom Luth.

Both though were led into developing the habit of reading. Mushashi by a trick and Groo by twist of fate. Both were confined in a room or a cave with books. And both were book learned and eventually strengthened their skills with what they learned. Although, Groo still did damage to a lot of cultures and not-so-good guys & gals, it still is OK. At least know he knows why he should be mad when somebody calls him a mendicant.

As for Mushashi he was able to defeat his rival Sasaki Kojiro with a bokken, wooden sword. And able to flee the vengeful wrath of Sasaki’s allies using the tides.

Skill, power and strategy.

Anyway, there are advantages to reading.

Pinoy Big Biblioblogosphere: Eyeball on 15 September 2007

Place: a different bookstore (adb), Serendra
Date: Saturday, 15 September 2007
Time: 3:00 pm

Agenda:
Meet, greet and discuss the future of the Pinoy biblioblogosphere =)

Who should attend:
Anyone whose blog I’ve ever linked to in my Pinoy Big Biblioblogosphere posts, plus bloggers who care about books and libraries, whether librarian or not.

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