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The Decay of the Angel - Yukio Mishima

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Viennese psychoanalysis; but he could not accept <strong>the</strong><br />

principle that one’s wish was to betray oneself. No: it<br />

was more natural to believe that someone outside<br />

was keeping a close watch, and importuning.<br />

Awake he had volition and, whe<strong>the</strong>r he wished it or<br />

not, was living in history; but somewhere back in <strong>the</strong><br />

darkness was someone, historical perhaps,<br />

nonhistorical perhaps, setting him against dreams.<br />

<strong>The</strong> mists would seem to have cleared and <strong>the</strong><br />

moon to have come out. <strong>The</strong> window, a little too tall for<br />

<strong>the</strong> curtain, was shining at <strong>the</strong> bottom a faint silverblue,<br />

like a shadow <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> giant reclining peninsula<br />

beyond <strong>the</strong> waters. So India would look, thought<br />

Honda, to a ship approaching from <strong>the</strong> Indian Ocean<br />

at night. He went back to sleep.

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