Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima The Waves and Street Haunting

The Waves and Street Haunting and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf

sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis

where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933

its philosophy

to the dark silences of their father and the fretful capability of their mother

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima The Waves and Street Haunting'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the objects of his lust are tortured, killed and maimed. But, in the rigid world of imperial wartime Japan there is no place for such transgressive desires. He