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16hands are held in front of him. This time he is notsmiling. There is no expression whatsoever. The picturehas a genuinely chilling, foreboding quality, asif it caught him in the act of dying as he sat beforethe camera, his hands held over a heater. That is notthe only shocking thing about it. The head is shownquite large, and you can examine the features in detail: the forehead is average, the wrinkles on the foreheadaverage, the eyebrows also average, the eyes, thenose, the mouth, the chin . . . the face is not merelydevoid of expression, it fails even to leave a memory.It has no individuality. I have only to shut my eyesafter looking at it to forget the face. I can rememberthe wall of the room, the little heater, but all impressionof the face of the principal figure in theroom is blotted out; I am unable to recall a singlething about it. This face could never be made thesubject of a painting, not even of a cartoon. I openmy eyes. There is not even the pleasure of recollecting:of course, that's the kind of face it was! To statethe matter in the most extreme terms: when I openmy eyes and look at the photograph a second time Istill cannot remember it. Besides, it rubs against methe wrong way, and makes me feel so uncomfortablethat in the end I want to avert my eyes.I think that even a death inank would hold moreof an expression, leave more of a memory. That effigy
17suggests nothing so much as a human body to whicha horse's head has been attached. Something ineffablemakes the beholder shudder in distaste. I have neverseen such an inscrutable face on a man.^*A££C* MYV\ X (f no con+fOi \-ttvsis object / SOtyucnv*. -»^dDO^sW
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Page 3 and 4: ALSO BY OSAMU DA2AITHE SETTING SVN
Page 5 and 6: Copyright © 1958by New Directions
Page 7 and 8: TRANSLATOR'SINTRODUCTION
Page 9 and 10: 4One aspect of The SettingSun puzzl
Page 11 and 12: ever, we do not wish to resemble th
Page 13 and 14: 8rest of Asia, the Western nations
Page 15 and 16: 10a mistake, I am sure. Dazai had t
Page 17 and 18: t*->^/ Alt/A4vacant -hy to LhG>i\I
Page 19: 15college days. At any rate, he is
Page 23 and 24: >tMine has been a life of much sham
Page 25 and 26: 23in two facing rows at table. Bein
Page 27 and 28: 25everyone else was so great as to
Page 29 and 30: 27As a child I had absolutely no no
Page 31 and 32: 29I must avoid is becoming offensiv
Page 33 and 34: 31think of any suitably clownish re
Page 35 and 36: 33I used to subscribe regularly to
Page 37 and 38: 35I had succeeded in appearing misc
Page 39 and 40: 37expressions of genuine delight on
Page 41 and 42: THE SECONDNOTEBOOK
Page 43 and 44: 42strewn with cherry blossoms serve
Page 45 and 46: 44training period while the rest of
Page 47 and 48: 46about getting back to their lodgi
Page 49 and 50: 48without saying a word in return b
Page 51 and 52: 50The two cousins in whose house I
Page 53 and 54: 52to ascertain the feelings by whic
Page 55 and 56: 54had this mentality, after repeate
Page 57 and 58: 56no escape from it, but naturally
Page 59 and 60: 58Seven Ronin.) Instead I would spe
Page 61 and 62: 601 started, "I've been thinking I'
Page 63 and 64: 62wanted in the shortest possible t
Page 65 and 66: 64beings, to seek a mere night of r
Page 67 and 68: 66honor. Everything he said seemed
Page 69 and 70: 68attitudes in which I have gone on
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70ality, but the comrades kept them
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72thought it a good strategy to mak
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74bothering to eat, she invariably
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76disposed of them immediately to t
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78about money. I felt, rather, as i
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80She rambled on, but I have never
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82I didn't meet my benefactor of th
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84aback: Tsuneko was going to be ki
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86first time I had ever drunk so mu
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88The incident was treated rather p
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90of my punishment depended solely
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92father always called him by that
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94brought no joy. I felt utterly wr
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One of Takeichi's predictions came
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99Antiques," was the only impressiv
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101He asked, "What do you plan to d
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103"What kind of problems?" I reall
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105 f^CtSK-S W ;yi mbottom. It was
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107have been a twisted form of my w
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109busily stitching and pounding st
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over it taught me a lesson in the p
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113I led for the first time the lif
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115cartoons you're always drawing f
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117I was frightened even by God. I
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119might on the surface seem striki
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121become. Or, as Shigeko had it, I
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123Sometimes I spent the night out.
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125and suchlike things, but the obj
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127sacks of rice are wasted in one
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129Better be merry with the fruitfu
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131"There's no doubt about it. I'll
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133staggering—so far surpassing w
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5 &lloriki and myself.Despising eac
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139I answered nonchalantly, "It doe
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141We began a guessing game of trag
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143"Aren't there bees—or is it an
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145Imagine saying that the law was
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147letters r-i-c-e. Rice. I'm hungr
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149lost all confidence in myself, d
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151afraid, no matter how much I tri
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153defences should have yielded onl
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155The madam of the bar in Kyobashi
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157stead I would rush out into the
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159That was all. Without saying a w
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161forget how weak my body was, and
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163matter how painful it is. That's
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165face, "I hear you've coughed blo
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167tics claim the same thing. What
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169a curious manner by the old serv
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EPILOGUE
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174first beginning to rampage in th
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176mersed in reading the notebooks
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