Self-Portraits - Osamu Dazai Fire That Binds She feels she has let

She feels she has let everyone down

But here I am somehow

personal and public virtue

it may take everything she is to keep it

Self-Portraits - Osamu Dazai Fire That Binds She feels she has let"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