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Anyone have a PDF of yukio Mishima’s patriotism?

>>18954063
Oh, I certainly didn't mean taking others with you. Just that if you're determined to dip, offing yourself in some novel and elaborate manner that would make the great authors proud and live forever in the archives of /lit/ might be the way to do it.

I myself have no desire to live, so I often imaginable elaborate Mishima-esque self-inflicted death scenarios which would double as works of art. The more intricate and painful the better, I would never want to go out like a coward when I could go out in style. Imagining these scenarios as baroque as possible keeps me from carrying them out desu. Also, reading Nietzsche has helped.

>>16868721
based.

anyone who shills the "he was afraid of getting old" meme hasn't read his work deeply. there's an obsession with death from his early novels. a fixation on the apostheosis of fragile beauty in the moment of its extermination. it's very japanese, very wabi-sabi. to that end, his ritual suicide was the final act in his lifetime of theater, the final stroke of poetry.