Portraits from Mishima

"The Woman In The red Coat;" "Kankankan. . . goo . . . kankankan' echoed the sound of the alarm bells at the railroad crossing. As I sat in my study, I heard the whizzing sound of the passing train. It reminded me of an incident twenty years before . . . a woman in a red coat . . . ." "Interview With Karl Marx: "As long as you don't ask Marxist questions, you're welcome."" This story reproduces the life and the ideals of Marx on a high and humanistic level. Nuyten's "The Last Supper" ("Letter," "Funeral Speech" and addendum: "The Mother-In-Law Report") is like reading Paul Bowles and his A Distant Episode. Here, we are deliberately led into an exotic and uncomfortable experience, so different from the norm. The narrator indicates he is the victim of his circumstances, but the truth he expresses has its bias as we come to see. The piece is most original and the way it involves the reader is what good writing is all about. "Reader Rosebud Magazine"