roots reggae
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@roots reggae Do you know how much i love you right now?
Ten years ago or something i read a japanese book that was fantastic, but even though i remembered the story i was totally unable to remember the title/author - and googling some of the plot keywords turned out to be an utter fail. While reading your post the name "Abe Kobo" for some reason rang a bell, so i wikipedia-ed him. Bingo, he is the author of "Secret Rendezvous", the book i was searching for all these years. THANK YOU!
First-timers could start with "The Music". It's one of Mishima's lightest book, there's some humour, and it's a very addicting book. It's about a psychoanalyst trying to cure his new patient, a beautiful woman who "can't hear the music" anymore, while navigating through her lies.
Mercy, you can't imagine how nice you just made me feel! My pleasure! I've read quite a bit of Abe Kobo, but not Secret Rendezvous. I'll have to see if my local library has a copy.
I've read quite a few Yukio Mishima, bit have not review all. I need to read just one more of his four part series to finish it. I'll look for The Music based on your recommendation
.I'm in a Japanese phase right now.
My specialty in university was literary criticism and literary analysis. I wrote my masters thesis on a rhetorical analysis of Book Nine, Paradise Lost. I found Milton massively boring, however, if I do say so myself, my wholly original analysis was nothing short of brilliant! I still cannot believe I wrote on that level.
