I am so mesmerised with both Mishima and his characters’ destructive drive to achieve beauty, how they subconsciously or consciously choose to make martyrs of themselves in very human way: not for a grand change to the world around them, but for the change of themselves, their own grasp of reality, to make sense of their lives in a pragmatical and meaningless world, not built for their romanticised perception.
It’s easy to understand their motivation, with no need to actually agree with their actions. Same with their desire to create meaning, always through some form of destruction that is meaningless. I simply cannot look away.
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
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