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To: Gaffer

25 posted on 06/28/2024 1:56:06 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Nice one sheeter!

However, the SECOND step is missing, IIRC. Seppuku involves committing hara-kiri first, then a ‘second’ decapitates the body. :0) [if they’re gonna do it, I want them to do it right]


28 posted on 06/28/2024 2:08:27 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: central_va

If I remember correctly one of the Yukio Mishima novels the man cutting himself gets only part of the way for the needed completion pattern to have honor in his suicide ritual so he begs his student to come over to complete the slash.

Sort of like Kirk Douglas in the Viking movie asking with a glance for his enemy to hand him the sword so he can die in honor and go to the next world as a warrior.


56 posted on 06/28/2024 6:25:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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