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The Decay of the Angel - Yukio Mishima
This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.
Yukio Mishima was the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka, a Japanese author, poet and playwright.The Decay of the Angel (Tennin Gosui, original Japanese title) was first published in 1970, and is the last of a cycle of four novels entitled The Sea of Fertility.
"It was a bright, quiet garden, without striking features. Like a rosary rubbed between the hands, the shrilling of cicadas held sway.
There was no other sound. The garden was empty. He had come, thought Honda, to a place that had no memories, nothing.
The noontide sun of summer flowed over the still garden."
Significant Others - Edited by Whitney Chadwick and Isabelle de Courtivron
This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2008.
Whitney Chadwick is an American art historian and author. Isabelle de Courtivron is Professor of French Studies and Head of the Foreign Languages and Literatures department at MIT.
Significant Others was first published in 1993.
"Traditional biographies and monographs have typically described creativity as an extraordinary (usually male) individual’s solitary struggle for artistic self-expression. We decided instead, to explore the complexities of partnerships and collaborations, painful as well as enriching. We chose to focus on couples (whether different or same sex) because couples are endlessly fascinating in the diversity of their interactions."
The male cross-dresser support group - Tama Janowitz
