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Work #348 · Late

Runaway Horses

Yukio Mishima
1969 (the second of the four Sea of Fertility novels) · Japanese
Novel · 20th-century Japanese literature / aestheticist nationalism

A young right-wing nationalist's plot for assassination and ritual suicide — Mishima's 1969 second Sea of Fertility novel

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Attribute Runaway Horses (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Cyclical
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Multiple
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Singular
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Cosmic-ordering
Observer · Moral Authority Tradition
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Runaway Horses

1930s Japanese historical-political time.

Space

Runaway Horses

Pre-war Japan as the political setting.

Matter

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The embodied Isao and his conspirators.

Observer

Runaway Horses

Honda as the continuing witness across the tetralogy.

Energy

Runaway Horses

Energies of nationalist commitment and ritual death.

Information

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The 1930s Japanese political-religious record.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Runaway Horses

Mishima's own 1970 suicide inflects the reading of Isao's commitments.