Evangelion is patterned after the Book of Jonah, in which a cowardly teenager flees inside a hysteroid teratism to shirk his unfairly imposed duty of individuating in human society
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Edward Seidensticker’s The Decay of the Angel leads me to believe it is not impossible to produce, as a translation, a work distinctly superior to its source material.
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The final cause of Yukio Mishima’s ignominious death by suicide was the eventual translation, by Edward Seidensticker, of The Decay of the Angel.
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Kishi Kaisei literally translates to "Wake from death and return to life". Meaning "To come out of a desperate situation and make a complete return in one sudden burst".
