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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 .
"Book of Angels" (2005–2017) a composition series of 32 albums by John Zorn performed by various artists: For a complete listing, see John Zorn discography#Masada Book Two - The Book of Angels; Book of Angels (Machel Montano album)
This book permeated Christianity in the English-speaking world for 300 years after its first publication in 1678. In contrast, the Methodist publication The Interpreter's Bible states, "Abaddon, however, is an angel not of Satan but of God, performing his work of destruction at God's bidding", citing the context at Revelation chapter 20, verses ...
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.
Bill Hopkins (5 May 1928 – 6 May 2011) was a Welsh novelist and journalist who has been grouped with the angry young men.His father was Ted Hopkins, a popular stage performer; his mother was Violet Brodrick.
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.