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Date: 16 August 2005
I like answers.com's answer for the writer Mishima: "Seppuku-committing Japanese author". Yukio did the old hari-kari after he finished this series of four books, cutting open his stomach and getting a mate to slice hit head off. Well, he needn't have worried, it's pretty good, definitely not worth killing yourself over. It's long, and, not as good as, Proustian, and filled with a whiff of weird sex (mishima was a bit confused over his direction), and I enjoyed it, even though it took me a couple of eons to read it. The best part is that the hero or object of the tetralogy ( the book is told from the perspective of a scholarly male who is the real hero) is apparently reincarnated in each book. A neat way of solving the problem of getting bored with the details of a character. Our boy's/girl's distinguishing feature is three moles in/near his/her armpit. Bingo. Read it too for a nice history of Japan. Quite bonkers through Mishima's eyes.
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