No Longer Human Osamu Dazai


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our old friendship. We went together to the bar in Kyobashi and,
eventually, we two soused dogs visited Shizuko's apartment in Koenji,
where I sometimes spent the night.


I shall never forget. It was a sticky hot summer's night. Horiki had
come to my apartment about dusk wearing a tattered summer kimono.
He told me that an emergency bad come up and he had been obliged to
pawn his summer suit. He asked me to lend him some money because
he was anxious to redeem the suit before his aged mother found out.
The matter apparently concerned him genuinely. As ill luck would have
it, I hadn't any money at my place. As usual I sent Yoshiko out to the
pawnshop with some of her clothes. I lent Horiki what he needed from
the money she received, but there was still a little left over, and I asked
Yoshiko to buy some gin with it. We went up on the roof of the
apartment house, where we celebrated the evening cool with a dismal
little party. Faint miasmic gusts of wind blew in from the river every
now and then.
We began a guessing game of tragic and comic nouns. This game,
which I myself had invented, was based on the proposition that just as
nouns could be divided into masculine, feminine and neuter, so there
was a distinction between tragic and comic nouns. For example, this
system decreed that steamship and steam engine were both tragic
nouns, while streetcar and bus were comic. Persons who failed to see
why this was true were obviously unqualified to discuss art, and a
playwright who included even a single tragic noun in a comedy showed
himself a failure if for no other reason. The same held equally true of
comic nouns in tragedies.

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