barger@ARISTOTLE.ILS.NWU.EDU (Jorn Barger) (01/04/90)
Some weeks ago someone here noted a similarity between the KT-with-rose pose and a photo of Yukio Mishima (?) on the cover of a biography of same... I happened to run into the very book in a 2nd hand store yesterday and my opinion is that the pose, and especially the psychotic gaze, are too strikingly similar to be an accident. Unless I'm confusing another Japanese celebrity, Mishima was a gay novelist and extreme reactionary who almost singlehandedly hijacked a military compound and then committed hara kiri practically or actually on live tv, I think in the 60's. Just the kind of drama that might fascinate KT. So is there a song on TSW that echoes something of his life or works? --Jorn "Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd." Blake