Boris Akunin. Leviathan (№ 109472)

We Fandorin-San compared the advantages of Japanese and English exercises. I could afford to be lenient, as the superiority of the East to the West in this sphere is obvious. The fact is that exercise is a sport, a game, and we have a Path to spiritual self-improvement. It is to the spiritual, because physical perfection is irrelevant and drags behind itself, like a train behind the locomotive.