Yukio Mishima

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.

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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Callas

'...living is merely the chaos of existence..'

lily lily 

The smooth, inflamed play of their lips altered subtly with every contact and clinging release as from angle after angle they poured each other full of light, spinning into a single luminous thread all of softness and of sweetness.

Only when the cool tips of their noses brushed did he realize with a chuckle that they were two firm, separate bodies.

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