Self-Portraits - Osamu Dazai Fire That Binds The Time Keepers transports us

The Time Keepers transports us from 1979 suburban New York to war-torn Vietnam

personal and public virtue

as it does for Jake Epping

Falling for McCarthy was "rule #7" on their "don't" list

But here I am somehow

Self-Portraits - Osamu Dazai Fire That Binds The Time Keepers transports us"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his death and the death of others. Faced with pressure to conform, he declared his individuality to the world in all its self involved, self conscious, and self hating