Bookends: Confessions of a Mask
Added 2023-09-17 21:21:00 +0000 UTCOur latest Bookends meeting, recorded for posterity and your listening pleasure. We discuss the Mishima novel and more.
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Thank you for joining us! This book was really not what I was expecting based on what I (at the time we picked it) knew about Mishima. But! I found myself bowled over by the craft on display and I'm not sure I've come across any writer with a perspective quite like Mishima.
Brad Kelly
2023-09-18 01:19:22 +0000 UTCThanks for introducing Mishima and this novel to me, and for hosting this Bookends meeting. I suffered quite bit of "the yips" myself during it, was always a few beats behind...But here are two of many lines in "Confessions" that were so good: "...that hot-pink smell, like hot sugared milk" (p73); and "...the muscles of the clouds were pale as alabaster" (p86). Thanks again, Kevin and Brad.
Robin Lewis
2023-09-17 21:30:51 +0000 UTC
