Confessions of a Mask Volleyball Like all good mysteries

Like all good mysteries

The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry - among them poems of invocation

a Scripture that provides a solution

as did Lord Louis Mountbatten

Confessions of a Mask Volleyball Like all good mysteriesThe dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in Guido Reni's painting; the objects of our hero's desire are tortured, killed and maimed, over and over again each night in his private fantasies. He must hide his lust from a homophobic and stiflingly conventional Japan. Self loathing