The Mishima answer to "why did the chicken cross the road" remains my favorite literary parody:pic.twitter.com/MewQwu5x0H
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The Mishima answer to "why did the chicken cross the road" remains my favorite literary parody:pic.twitter.com/MewQwu5x0H
Haha that’s excellent - and reminds me I probably need to actually read the guy
I've Temple of the Golden Pavilion, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace, Runaway Horses, ~couple others, and they are all intensely narcissistic in similar way, but incredibly well-written. Very much worth reading.
Where would you start - Pavilion?
Yes. Its the most popular, and I think it manages to include most of the motifs that dominate his other books. Once you read that, everything else seems familiar. Its always about deeply-frustrated youth burning shit up in some orgasmic, destructive gesture of beauty
*which is why your comparison to the suicide-stunt-pilot was so perfect
Book-wise, a young man stealing a plane is also the starting-off point of Ballard’s Unlimited Dream Company - a weird and wild masterpiece in its own imperfect way
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