The Never-ending Fanaticism: Yukio Mishima (ten Lectures on Japanese Literary Masters 06)
by Yang Zhao
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19-year-old Mishima Yukio felt that he might die in the war at any time. There is no way of knowing whether I will be alive tomorrow, so I enjoy it wildly today. This absolute and pure passion continued to live in his body after the war, until the last day - November 25, 1970, when the 45-year-old Yukio Mishima transcribed the last part of "Sea of Fertility", "The Five Declines of Heavenly Beings", and the long million words were wrapped up in great tranquility. He then went to the Ground Self-Defense Force and committed seppuku. He believes that there is a kind of decent person who takes death seriously, and there is another kind of person who lives by himself, making his life darker and more boring. He also believed that before a person dies, he should always have light. "Mishima Yukio wrote until he was about to leave this world. He seemed to still embrace the world in his heart, but used his own hands to pull life away from this world. He did not commit suicide because he lost his enthusiasm for the world. On the contrary, he chose to die before he grew old because of his special enthusiasm for the world." - Yang Zhao.
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