Archive for April, 2005

Yukio Mishima’s diary on display

A diary kept by Yukio Mishima in the 1940’s, now on display at a museum in Japan, suggests that the Japanese writer based his most famous work partly on his own experiences: Mishima described in detail his efforts to become a novelist, his relations with another famous novelist, Osamu Dazai, and his reunion with a woman believed to be the . . .

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John Berger makes me want to start smoking again

John Berger (Ways of Seeing) has returned to London for a month-long celebration of his work. In an interview at the Guardian, he tosses out this observation on shared smoke breaks: ‘A cigarette’, he says, inhaling deeply, ‘is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared you are . . .

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