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...time in her gloomy sickroom. The fetid memories of such an upbringing formed much of the basis of his 1958 novel, Confessions of a Mask. "Something within me responded to the darkened room and the sickbed," he wrote elsewhere. He was fascinated, too, by death, which for him possessed an erotic attraction. His first sexual experience seems to have occurred while he was gazing at a portrait of St. Sebastian, body pierced with arrows. Years later, with typically gorgeous effrontery, he posed for a photo in which he himself was St. Sebastian. Poshlust again. What rescued Mishima from merely exotic...
...unlikely source. In the third book of Machiavelli's Discourses, the 15th century Florentine sage declares of bodies such as republics that "those changes are beneficial that bring them back to their original principles. And those are the best-constituted bodies, and have the longest existence, which possess the intrinsic means of frequently renewing themselves." This renewal can be accomplished by a "blow from without," by which Machiavelli clearly means a foreign attack or invasion. But the same effect, he says, can be achieved by "internal occurrences" that test the national system of laws. Machiavelli's point...
...quack," say some players. His managerial style is unquestionably unusual. If a player ignores his directions, Dark merely contemplates the dugout's top step. When the team fails to hustle, he does not say a word. Even more disturbing to the team, Dark seems to possess a reverse Midas touch with the pitching staff. He yanks effective throwers too soon, often leaves struggling ones on the mound too long...
...talks" from the seat of an old high-miler. I do not know enough about science or philosophy to assess Pirsig's originality from that perspective, but he did not write the book to be weighed in as a philosopher. The autobiographical threads that connect his chautauquas possess the urgency of self-revelation. An attempt to exorcize and thrash the "ghost of rationality" haunts Pirsig's story, and his personal quest animates the intellectual odyssey. The book's roots in common experience enable one to follow and savor its course...
...Crimson overruled the Judges of Brandeis in a 7-2 decision on Soldiers Field to become the first team in the history of the league to possess the mythical Bike Cup (awarded for excellence among Beantown's collegiate baseballers) four seasons in a row. The win gave Harvard a 6-1-0 GBL slate, while Brandeis finished with two losses in the circuit. The rest of the competition was hopelessly out of it a week...