I have to rush off , school and all but here is a paragraph on lit !

Mishimas Patriotism

This 10 page short story expresses everything Mishima is both praised and condemned for. It features intense nostalgia for a martial nationalism that may not have existed. A subservient woman who does what she is expected to do. A thick current of blood and sex. all of this would not be very interesting if Mishima was not an expert prose stylist . These pages are not only an almost perfect ascending climax , suspense that goes so fast to the farthest extension of its logical conclusions . It is also deeply poetic. It is self contained and elegant. Only occasionally do the banalities of everyday life interrupt the tension. They are not the comic relief expected in Western Fiction. They seem to be rocks in a garden. Something to ponder instead of where the lines of sand are going. At first the blood gushing dual hari kari seems to be a shock . But there are clues. The sand lines are confusing but if your eyes are strong enough you can follow them. I have always wondered if this story was a rehearsal. But it is always dangerous to assume Autobiography even if its intentional.