Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima #joyce Yangtze and the Thames

Yangtze and the Thames

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Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima #joyce Yangtze and the Thames'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain' A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the objects of his lust are tortured, killed and maimed. But, in the rigid world of imperial wartime Japan there is no place for such transgressive desires.