Yukio Mishima- Thirst for Love

This is a lovely book. Mishima's talent in clear plain story telling is very refreshing 50 years on. Then there are such surprise additions into the flow: big ideas, deep ideas, the human condition...in just a few lines, and then the story gently continues.An example: "A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation is not negated. In the moment a captive lion steps out of his cage, he possesses a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds to him-the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage."