Absconded

As his father lay on this plain bed in the sanatorium by the shore, at the same time he might very well be surrounded by scenes and memories invisible to others, in the still darkness of a back room in his own vacant house.

“But once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality.

The whole concept of getting something out of his system was something he might be lacking.

“To get something important, people have to pay a price. That’s the rule the world operates by.”

As he wrote, his mind was living in that world. Even when he lay down his pen and stood up from the desk, his mind remained there. There was a special sensation of his body and his mind beginning to separate, and he could no longer distinguish the real world from the fictional.

enigmatic

People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.

It was the kind of expression Munch might have painted. Ushikawa’s