a terrorist is someone who loses the first childish battle against the state. history teaches us that they will have a good chance of winning the next battle.

My favourite quote from Yukio Mishima, the so very Japan-Shinto-centric literature genius.

"The law is an accumulation of tireless attempts to block a human’s desire to change life into an instant of poetry. Certainly it would not be right to let everybody exchange their life for a line of poetry written in a splash of blood. But the mass of humanity, lacking valor, pass away their lives without ever feeling the least touch of such a desire. The law, therefore, of its very nature is aimed at a tiny minority of human-kind. The extraordinary purity of a handful of beings, the passionate devotion that knows nothing of the world’s standards … the law is a system that tries to degrade them to ‘evil,’ on the same level as robbery and crimes of passion." Yukio MISHIMA

He'd make a damn good terrorist now. He was the greatest writer in Japan and was honoured as such. How things change to suit the flexible appropriate morality of our foolish times.

I like Mishima. His mind and his literary contribution were of a magnificent standard to go well beyond winning the Nobel Prize, but they wouldn't ever give it to him, & even now, posthumously, they wont ever give it to him and simply because he loved his Emperor, his Nation, Japan, and he loved and rejoiced in its intrinsically pure meaning far, far too much. he's the best writer Japan has ever produced and yet his contribution to world literature is seen as basically bad even now because we don't like what he said and felt as a person, as one of us.

"Border Control for the Human Consciousness". Some of us call it 'Mindfulness'.

Now, back to the cleaning of the apartment.