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...Mishima had written nothing else, his account of Honda's excursion to Benares, the holy Indian crematory site on the Ganges, would be considered a small masterpiece, on the order of E.M. Forster's visit to the Malabar caves in A Passage to India. Among the funeral burnings Honda finds an appalling filth and holy joy that amaze him: "A black arm would suddenly rise or a body would curl up in the fire as though turning over in sleep." The scene "was full of nauseous abomination, the inevitable ingredient of all times deemed sacred and pure...
...FORSTER 240 pages. Norton...
...should have been a more famous writer if I had written or rather published more," E.M. Forster commented in his diary in 1964, "but sex has prevented the latter." During his 46-year silence as a fiction writer after the 1924 A Passage to India-one of the most tantalizing silences in modern literature-the theme that continued to fire his imagination was the unpublishable one of homosexuality...
...Just as Forster had difficulty accepting his own homosexuality, he never seemed sure of the value of his "indecent" stories. Periodically he destroyed batches of them, not in "moral repentance" but out of "a craftsman's dissatisfaction...
...purges. They deal with such things as the seduction of a provincial couple by two sailors, a brief homosexual idyl between a middle-aged businessman and a milkman, and an East-meets-West shipboard disaster involving a half-caste and a British officer that ends in murder and suicide. Forster being Forster, these goings on are handled better than anyone could hope...