Yukio Mishima

Sun and Steel

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  • Andrew Muthothohas quoted18 hours ago
    The formulation of any new way of thought begins with the trial rephrasing in many different ways of a single, as yet ambiguous theme. As the fisherman tries all kinds of rods, and the fencer all kinds of bamboo swords until he finds one whose length and weight suit him, so, in the formulation of a way of thinking, an as yet imprecise idea is given experimental expression in a variety of forms; only when the right measurements and weight are discovered does it become part of oneself.
  • Andrew Muthothohas quoted2 days ago
    I lacked, in short, the muscles suitable for a dramatic death.
  • horizonsofabysshas quoted2 years ago
    comes the pillar of plain wood, then the white ants that feed on it. But for me, the white ants were there from the start, and the pillar of plain wood emerged tardily, already half eaten away.
  • horizonsofabysshas quoted2 years ago
    confidential criticism."

    I see it as a twilight genre between the night of confession and the daylight of criticism.
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