Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima #joyce The only thing they have

The only thing they have in common

Yangtze and the Thames

as well as private gems

Tomato Onion and Olive Tart and Whole Cooked Sea Bream

and for the society in which we live

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima #joyce The only thing they have'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.