No Longer Human Osamu Dazai


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of the month at the house. While he was away there would be just three
of us in the rather imposing mansion—an elderly couple who looked
after the premises and myself. I frequently cut classes, but not because
I felt like sightseeing in Tokyo. (It looks as if I shall end my days
without ever having seen the Meiji Shrine, the statue of Kusunoki
Masashige or the tombs of the Forty-Seven
Ronin.) Instead I would
spend whole days in the house reading and painting. When my father
was in town I set out for school promptly every morning, although
sometimes I actually went to an art class given by a painter in Bongo,
and practiced sketching for three or four hours at a time with him.
Having been able to escape from the college dormitory I felt rather
cynically—this may have been my own bias—that I was now in a
rather special position. Even if I attended lectures it was more like an
auditor than a regular student. Attending classes became all the more
tedious. I had gone through elementary and high schools and was now
in college without ever having been able to understand what was meant
by school spirit. I never even tried to learn the school songs.
Before long a student at the art class was to initiate me into the
mysteries of drink, cigarettes, prostitutes, pawnshops and left-wing
thought. A strange combination, but it actually happened that way.


This student's name was Masao Horiki. He had been born in
downtown Tokyo, was six years older than myself, and was a graduate
of a private art school. Having no atelier at home, he used to attend the
art class I frequented, where he was supposedly continuing his study of

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