CONFESSIONS OF A MASK [JAPANESE] W3 ZREAL acclaimed public thinker and clinical

acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

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he was severely injured in 1917 and

CONFESSIONS OF A MASK [JAPANESE] W3 ZREAL acclaimed public thinker and clinical'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain' A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the objects of his lust are tortured, killed and maimed. But, in the rigid world of imperial wartime Japan there is no place for such transgressive desires.