/lit/ - Literature

>Foreign commentators are prone to say Mishima "botched" his suicide, but that is not correct. Mishima stabbed himself in the stomach, cut a line of nearly six inches across his abdominal wall, and his students removed his head in a few strikes. By the standards of historical seppuku executions, this one was relatively swift and free of mishap.

>As for Morita's role, on the level of psychodrama it is best to think of him as an alternative Hiraoka. A Hiraoka free of artistic sensibility, with no interest in literature at all. A strong and healthy and happy Hiraoka. A Hiraoka who passed the military inspection and joined the imperial army. A heterosexual Hiraoka. This Hiraoka becomes Mishima's executioner. The resultant scenario thus has a classic narcissistic self-sufficiency. Like Dorian Gray, who dies after stabbing the portrait that had been for years absorbing the ugliness of his soul, Hiraoka ultimately confronts his alter ego, killing off the aberrant artificial self into which he has been defensively channelling his own vices and weaknesses; in doing so, he ends his own life

Mishima is trve kvlt

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We (Americans) will never understand Japan.