No Longer Human Osamu Dazai


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a caterpillar, and mutter in profound revulsion, "What a dreadful
child!"
Indeed, the more carefully you examine the child's smiling face the
more you feel an indescribable, unspeakable horror creeping over you.
You see that it is actually not a smiling face at all. The boy has not a
suggestion of a smile. Look at his tightly clenched fists if you want
proof. No human being can smile with his fists doubled like that. It is a
monkey. A grinning monkey-face. The smile is nothing more than a


puckering of ugly wrinkles. The photograph reproduces an expression
so freakish, and at the same time so unclean and even nauseating, that
your impulse is to say, "What a wizened, hideous little boy!" I have
never seen a child with such an unaccountable expression.
The face in the second snapshot is startlingly unlike the first. He is a
student in this picture, although it is not clear whether it dates from
high school or college days. At any rate, be is now extraordinarily
handsome. But here again the face fails inexplicably to give the
impression of belonging to a living human being. He wears a student's
uniform and a white handkerchief peeps from his breast pocket. He sits
in a wicker chair with his legs crossed. Again be is smiling, this time not
the wizened monkey's grin but a rather adroit little smile. And yet
somehow it is not the smile of a human being: it utterly lacks substance,
all of what we might call the "heaviness of blood" or perhaps the
"solidity of human life"—it has not even a bird's weight. It is merely a
blank sheet of paper, light as a feather, and it is smiling. The picture
produces, in short, a sensation of complete artificiality. Pretense,

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