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I'm struggling to understand but its probably cus I dont lift enough

There's a great synergy described by Mishima between spirit and body here that I think is very greatly described. A beautiful mind must be honed by effort in honing one's own body, and vice versa.

It's morbid, perhaps - but also comforting, how the author presents death. As the degradation of life occurs, beauty wastes away - but one must meet death with beauty and hone oneself with the discipline of steel.

Just making a note here that I understand Mishima to be INCREDIBLY fascist - I'm reading this book to understand WHY (what causes someone to be this way? Is there something I can learn from him as a person outside of his toxic political ideology? We'll see)