/lit/ - Literature

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So it impacted your life... Anon’s life... did you actually read it? Do you really know what he’s talking about? If you walked a similar path and took a similar bath, you wouldn’t be impacted at all. If you did neither of those things, you’re a LARPer. Also Bester’s translation isn’t very good. It’s a typical translation of a lifelong English Oxfordian academic who has never lifted a weight or seen the sun or tested himself in any way besides maybe academically. How do you expect Bester to convey what Mishima really meant?

By the way to everyone else in the thread it’s available online for free. It’s out of print. Mostly because it never sold hardly a copy. Vast sections of the book are garbly jarbly nonsense. Bester was trying to be too literal - missing the forest for the trees.