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Book
Yukio Mishima · 1958
Sequence ladder
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What this book knows
A young man performs normalcy so convincingly he loses sight of where the mask ends and the self begins.
self-and-identity
both of them lived together within me without bothering each other, without any conflict—so long as I remained unaware of the difference in these two viewpoints.
MIS-COM-RC-064Sonoko was my sole armor, the sole coat of mail for my frail conscience. Right or wrong, by fair means or foul, I told myself, you simply must love her.
MIS-COM-RC-088desire
I had forgotten Sonoko's existence. I was thinking of but one thing: of a sharp dagger cutting through that belly-band, piercing that torso, beautifully dyed with blood.
MIS-COM-RC-139Before my eyes, the young instructor gradually changed into a vision of a statue of the nude Hercules. Pangs of sex had already been intruding upon my everyday life.
MIS-COM-RC-055shame
Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
MIS-COM-RC-081My body was shaken with a strange grief. I was on fire with a loneliness as fiery as the sun.
MIS-COM-RC-050Illuminates
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