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>“What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidity…”
what did he mean by this?
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It means he wanted someone to poz his ass.
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>>9039261
He valued failure above triumph, and pursued it continually. Frequently, that was his means to triumph. So he wanted to die from failure; to kill himself by an attempt at life.
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>>9039261
>What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide
So why did he carefully plan it out?
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OP, take it as is. Mishima wasn't autistic enough to use death as a metaphor for something else.
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>>9039312
It's precisely autists who are less likely to use/understand metaphors. "Autistic" should not be used as a synonym for "stupid".
Jesus, the misuse of fashionable 4chan buzzwords drives me crazy.
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>>9039261
I'm pretty sure that it's a aesthetic preference, considering that ge tried to live his life as a work of art.
the image that he is describing is closer to his personal sensibilities, way more than a idealized glorious death under the brilliant Sun.
His view of death has to be a natural one, in the more naturalistic sense: he didnt strive to die a human, glorified death, instead he prefered a death that evoked nature in a nimalistic death, exactly like a fox that dies in a inhuman, abstract, cruel in its order, forest.
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>>9039348
This.
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>>9039263
Underrated post.
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>>9039343
/lit/ is full of idiots pretending to be clever.
Did you expect better?
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>>9044542
Life is full of idiots pretending to be clever.
Woah
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>>9044550
blew my fucking mind.
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