Dank Mishima Memes

Yukio Mishima ֍ Echo (1937) 

In this precise sense we can say that Mishima is a decadent hero. He is metaphysical because of his world-weariness, because of his belief that he has lived too long, which leads him to reflect morosely on his peculiar place in time and space. He is cerebral because he rejects reality and lives apart from it in an alternate world he has created for himself. He is an aesthete for his worship of beautiful things and his obsessive cultivation of his senses. He is cosmopolitan for his attachment to the city and city life, a consequence of his disdain for nature and his love of artifice. And he is a pervert for his contempt for the ordinary and his insistence on deviating from whatever society judges to be normal, as manifest in his narcissistic efforts to transform himself into an object, his denial of feeling and compassion, his love of crimes and evil, and his hedonistic indulgence in eroticism.”

Yukio MIshima admiring his reflection in a pool like Narcissus. July 2, 2022. AI image generated on Craiyon.

— Yukio Mishima

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Yukio Mishima, The Temple of Dawn

“Man is born for a long life, and when he dies, where does the rest of his life go? The days of happiness and sorrow? The thoughts and actions that have been destined for him - what about them? And the children he did not have - where are they? Don’t seek what is beyond us, the Lord is a mystery and we are all blind. There was once a man, exalted in spirit and profound in thought. In a flash his life was cut short. Strangers buried him in strange soil. Where are his days? The words unsaid, the prayers he never finished? A burnt candle can be lit again, but the candle of the life that is put out before its time - where does its fire go?”

– Yukio Mishima

(You know, from the perspective of that last photograph, it really looks like when Jack makes it to the top of his beanstalk, he will merely find himself back at his father’s old hut.)

- Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion