CaptivatingBookworm

“Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.”

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This fear was not an actual terror, but more like the embarrassment and nervousness felt by a know-it-all toward something he doesn’t understand.

“Being too clever has advantages and disadvantages.” Shinjuro ended with a smile.

I wake, always without a trace of positive initiative And rise, somber, thoughts the same as ever. Through this mean intent however, I had a vision… (It wasn’t as if I really felt at home there, But I just couldn’t bear the separation) And with night having fallen, I convinced myself That the world is somewhat like the sea - Like the restless sea in the evening Whose boatman, with his sunken face, His trembling hands struggling with the oars, Stares at the water as if searching for something While he makes his way across.

A young reporter from a certain magazine sat facing me and said the strangest thing. “Would you like to go to Ueno to see the bums?” “Bums?” “We’d like to photograph you with them.” “With the bums?” “Yes,” he said calmly. Why would they choose me in particular? Perhaps it’s a matter of free association: “Dazai.” “Bum.” “Bums.” “Dazai.”

Fyodor's final words being "i hate you all" got me cryinggg like i respect it bc he really was like i'm not gonna give any of yall the satisfaction of knowing wtf was up. NO CLOSURE i started this as a hater and i'm gonna die one true to myself. keep wondering