never let me go - by Kai - golden blue

art, death, and memory

SPOILERS: I talk about Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. Personally, I think if you knew exactly what happened in both works you would still get basically the same value out of them, and the plots are pretty predictable from the start anyway. But if you want to go in totally blind, you shouldn’t read this. And if you haven’t read/seen either of them, this should still be perfectly legible to you. Lately I feel constantly like I’m losing something. I send a poorly worded text and think, I’ve fucked up—it’s over. My mother’s radiology…

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