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“Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.”

“Bulging muscles, a taut stomach, and a tough skin, I reasoned, would correspond respectively to an intrepid fighting spirit, the power of dispassionate intellectual judgement, and a robust disposition.”

“To change the silence of death into the eloquence of life, the aid of steel was essential.”

Two days ago I watched the film Harakiri, which conveys a rather inverse justification of death as human, juxtaposing Mishima’s ritualisation of his own suicide as an ultimate act of passion and heroism in a shallow world and otherwise meaningless life.

Very intriguing. Looking forward to reading more.

Read the first 20 pages listening to Earthmover and Bloodhail and now its 3:13AM.

Very impressed so far as I feel strongly and absolutely that I too put flesh and words on the same footing as I discover my physical being through action and art; nature and combat.