The unity of pen and sword

Hester 2022-01-18 08:02:29

The words are all fictitious.
In order to change the world, words must lie,
but the behavior will never lie

. The unity of pen and sword.
But how? ...

What is the Japanese spirit that Mishima pursues?
This is not something I can figure out at the moment,
but I know absolutely not some metaphysical mind stuff
pure air but breathe every minute of
every minute of every second you can feel the touch of skin on the warmth of the sun
and modernity are air pollution and let the sun become The gloomy haze
Marx mentioned in "The Manuscript of Economics and Philosophy in 1844" but did not explain clearly what it is impossible to say.

ps> The main theme is composed of the violin, and the background music of the cello is very good.

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters quotes

  • Yukio Mishima (Narrator): All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.

  • Kashiwagi (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion"): [referring to his "frog feet" and Mizoguchi's stuttering]

    Kashiwagi (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion"): Guys like us are just like beautiful girls. We get sick of always being stared at.