Status Updates From Cavalli in fuga

"Each passing year, never failing to exact its toll, keeps altering what was sublime into the stuff of comedy. Is something eaten away? If the exterior is eaten away, is it true, then, that the sublime pertains by nature only to an exterior that conceals a core of nonsense? Or does the sublime indeed pertain to the whole, but a ludicrous dust settles upon it?"

Pero ninguna revelación llegó. Nada que se refiriera a un día ni a una hora precisos. Ninguna indicación descendió de la alta luminosidad del cielo crepuscular atravesado por nubes. Ninguna comunicación de sentimientos imposibles de ser comunicados mediante palabras

Rich in seppuku.

He could conceive of nothing less fitting than that a young man who had given his life so wholeheartedly to emotion should now rest beneath this mound of stone. The Kiyoaki of Honda's memories certainly had the hint of death about him. But even that aura of death was like a transparent flame, as if in him death itself was brilliant and volatile. This cold stone had nothing of all to say of Kiyoaki.