/lit/ - Literature

>>17979006
I'm sure he was aware:

"Nothing is that can satify me;
Earthly novelty is too soon dulled;
I am drawn higher and higher, more unstable,
Closer and closer to the sun's effulgence."

My boy would've loved Ian Curtis, who also died for his art.
Aesthetics are the last vestiges of spirituality for the godless. And Mishima was a man looking for God, for transcendent emotions beyond the reach of normal men.
Also, was the ending of the Sea of Fertility a clever way to say that the modern Japanese State betrayed all the men who died for the Emperor in WWII? He is forgotten, like that.