No longer

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Osamu Dazai's 'No Longer Human' comprises a series of three fictionalized notebooks, with each increasingly darker than the last. The character writing these books, Yozo, is detached from the beginning and is afraid of human interactions, but he learns how to socialize with people by playing the clown...

“You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing

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Aug 10 prompt and poem Ariel, Pacific NW poet Saturday. A little tech issues last night. Today’s prompt is Gustave Flaubert’s “It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer…

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo’s attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a ’clown” to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its…

i am not who i was, grey, black