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What Made My Day Today

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There are a lot of things that make me happy, and what made my day today is reading a book under a tree floor lamp. The book is written by a Japanese writer, Yukio Mishima. Golden Pavilion, which is the second book I read written by Yukio Mishima. The first one was Confession of a Mask. Whether it is Tsurugawa or Kashiwagi, it is the personification of Mizoguchi, who has a self-contradictory philosophical theory, and the character of the three gives him the chance to release himself. Tsurugawa, Kashiwagi, and I are all the media used by Yukio Mishima to express his reviews on beauty. For Mizoguchi, Tsurugawa is the bright side of himself, a symbol of the true him. And Kashiwagi, is the delusion of himself, doing things that he never dared to try. The death of Tsurgawa makes the story easier to tell, a much simple relationship when there are only two persons. On the other side, the girls in the book look more like a sign, from Uik to the military wife and prostitute. The women in the bo