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In The Decay of the Angel, the last book of Sea of Fertility tetralogy, Shikeguni Honda, a retired judge, adopts a teenage orphan, Tōru Yasunaga, whom he believes to be a dead schoolfriend's third successive reincarnation. In this book, which is also accepted as the testament of Yukio Mishima, Shigekuni Honda observes the evolution of Japan in ...
The main timeline of the story stretches from 1912 to 1975. The viewpoint of all four books is that of Shigekuni Honda, a law student in Spring Snow who eventually becomes a wealthy retired judge in The Decay of the Angel. Each of the novels depicts what Honda comes to believe are successive reincarnations of his schoolfriend Kiyoaki Matsugae ...
The Decay of the Angel The Temple of Dawn ( 暁の寺 , Akatsuki no tera ) is the third novel in the Sea of Fertility tetralogy by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima . For this as for the other novels in the series, Mishima travelled to various places to conduct research, including Wat Arun in Bangkok , Thailand .
The story follows a nun in New York who unwittingly reignites an ancient war between Angelologists, a group who study angels, and a race of descendants of angels and humans called the Nephilim. The story blends ancient biblical pericopes , the myth of Orpheus , and the fall of rebel angels.
Nihilistic in tone, the book consists of a series of philosophical reflections on various subjects, such as fanaticism, music, and progress. [1] The major theme of the book is the concept of decay, which may occur in individuals as disease or mental illness, and which may occur in societies as decline into decadence.
Buffy and Angel both battle the same ancient evil, a Possessor who was once "Qin", and Angel's old ally/adversary Jhiera is working with their enemy. Solitary Man: L.A., 2002: Team Angel copes with a detective-wannabe-old women. Love and Death: L.A., 2002: Demon-killers are provoked by an outspoken radio host, putting Angel, Connor and Lorne at ...
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Steele began publishing short stories in 1988. His early novels formed a future history beginning with Orbital Decay and continuing through Labyrinth of Night. Some of his early novels such as Orbital Decay and Lunar Descent were about blue-collar workers working on future construction projects in space. Since 1992, he has tended to focus on ...