No Longer Human Osamu Dazai


half-wit, and I had quite lost even the energy to think of suicide



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half-wit, and I had quite lost even the energy to think of suicide.
Flatfish's house was near the Okubo Medical School. The signboard
of his shop, which proclaimed in bold letters "Garden of the Green
Dragon, Art and
Antiques," was the only impressive thing about the
place. The shop itself was a long, narrow affair, the dusty interior of
which contained nothing but shelf after shelf of useless junk. Needless
to say, Flatfish did not depend for a living on the sale of this rubbish;
he apparently made his money by performing such services as
transferring possession of the secret property of one client to another—
to avoid taxes. Flatfish almost never waited in the shop. Usually he set
out early in the morning in a great hurry, his face set in a scowl, leaving
a boy of seventeen to look after the shop in his absence. Whenever this
boy had nothing better to do, he used to play catch in the street with
the children of the neighborhood. He seemed to consider the parasite
living on the second floor a simpleton if not an outright lunatic. lie used
even to address me lectures in the manner of an older and wiser head.
Never having been able to argue with anybody, I submissively listened
to his words, a weary though admiring expression on my face. I seemed
to recall having heard long ago from the people at home gossip to the
effect that this clerk was an illegitimate son of Flatfish, though the two
of them never addressed each other as adopter and son. There must
have been some reason for this and for Flatfish's having remained a
bachelor, but I am congenitally unable to take much interest in other
people, and I don't know anything beyond what I have slated. However,
there was undoubtedly something strangely fish-like about the boy's

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