Eat any good books lately?

[DavidCroquet]

Finally read a book that (I think!) is safe enough to post here without telling on myself. Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow. 

I've been interested in the guy for a very long time (thanks to fucking Shin Megami Tensei lol) and finally decided to crack into his books after watching the Paul Schrader movie.

It's good but in a way that defies a general description. Like, a synopsis is Romeo and Juliet in Glorious Nippon (sort of). But the inner moments of the characters worked wonders for me. One of the characters relates a Buddhist parable--not sure if it's real--about a barely-conscious monk who accidentally drinks water from a skull, not knowing that it is a skull. Whe he drinks it, it is the most invigorating water he has ever tasted. He is immediately brought to his senses, notices that he just drank from a skull, and vomits in disgust.

The character goes on to ruminate that maybe it would be possible to hold onto the sensation of that prior, uninformed understanding--this water is great!--and disrgard, without self-deception, the later informed response--holy shit, I just drank from a human skull!--and how, if such a thing is possible, a person could theoretically live genuinely happily in any circumstance of life. 

I read that and I was like, "ayo, this mf cookin'! 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️"

This is the first of four books that Mishima had published on the day he committed seppuku. Some internet randos suggest that they function best when read as a single continuous work. So I guess my next book is gonna be Runaway Horses.