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>Diocletian found the New Testament

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To be honest, I read OP and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Spanish and they did nothing for me either.
He's a very naive analysis. In Confessions, Temple and The Sailor, all 3 main characters (I take the kid to be the MC in the latter) have some secret dark side to them, and it felt like Mishima was just exploring 3 potential ways in which people turn out that way. The first is autobiographical to some extent, and he was made a hateful sadistic queer because he was dressed as a girl iirc and later just couldn't come out openly gay. In Temple of the Golden Pavilion, the MC is that way because he was born with a physical defect. In the third, the kid becomes a sadistic cunt after watching his mom fuck some dude.

This all felt somewhat trite. I thought Mishima was overrated until I got to Spring Snow and the rest of the Sea of Fertility, which I loved (mostly the first 2 books). The Sound of the Waves was alright, some very pretty scenery. I don't know if I'll ever read Forbidden color(s?).

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