No Longer Human Osamu Dazai


to have acquired before I was aware of it



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to have acquired before I was aware of it
a certain offensive atmosphere which clung inseparably to me. This was
a quite unexpected by-product of my experience, but gradually it


became more manifest, until Horiki pointed it out, to my amazement
and consternation. I had, quite objectively speaking, passed through an
apprenticeship in women at the hands of prostitutes, and I had of lute
become quite adept. The severest apprenticeship in women, they say, is
with prostitutes, and that makes it the most effective. The odor of the
"lady-killer" had come to permeate me, and women (not only
prostitutes) instinctively detected it and flocked to me. This obscene
and inglorious atmosphere was the "bonus" I received, and it was
apparently far more noticeable than the recuperative effects of my
apprenticeship.
Horiki informed me of it half as a compliment, I suppose, but it
struck a painful chord in me. I remembered now clumsily written
letters from bar girls; and the general's daughter, a girl of twenty,
whose house was next to mine, and who every morning when I went to
school was always hovering around her gate, all dressed up for no
apparent reason; and the waitress at the steak restaurant who, even
when I didn't say a word .... ; and the girl at the tobacco
shop I
patronized who always would put in the package of cigarettes she
handed me ...; and the woman in the seat next to mine at the Kabuki
Theatre . . . ; and the time when I was drunk and fell asleep on the
streetcar in the middle of the night; and that letter burning with
passion that came unexpectedly from a girl relative in the country; and

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