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Ogai Mori

  • vanvatehas quoted24 days ago
    debauchery is the raison d'etre of life,
  • vanvatehas quoted24 days ago
    the path along which Zola has been walking, he should also build another path high in the air, parallel to Zola's. . . . We should erect a spiritual naturalism.
  • vanvatehas quoted24 days ago
    What interests him in these stories is the psychological condition under which the authors wrote.
  • vanvatehas quoted24 days ago
    And that is why when he discovers an author has written with the intention of creating something sad or pathetic, it strikes him as quite funny, and when the intention of the author is to be humorous, he feels instead quite sad about it.
  • vanvatehas quoted24 days ago
    At the same time he was wondering if such representations were actually true to life, he suspected that perhaps unlike the rest of the human race he might be indifferent to such desires, that he might have an extraordinary natural disposition which might be called frigiditas
  • vanvatehas quoted24 days ago
    His thought at the moment was not that such a scene was probably impossible, but why the author had deliberately taken the trouble to depict it.
  • vanvatehas quoted24 days ago
    That is, he wondered if the author's focusing on sexual desire itself was not abnormal
  • vanvatehas quoted23 days ago
    people in general had become erotomaniacs or he himself was abnormally frigid
  • vanvatehas quoted23 days ago
    Mr. Kanai felt he wanted to write something, but he didn't want to imitate his predecessors
  • vanvatehas quoted23 days ago
    But love is not the same as sexual desire even though love may be closely related to it.
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