Dazai's quasi-memoir about a man who clowns, drinks and ends in a double suicide. Tamir likes it; Grant finds it too self-indulgent and without desire.
Where it appears 2
the elixir of authenticityTamir mentions it (from an earlier episode) as an example of a character with no aspirations. He is mocked constantly, makes himself the butt of the joke as a coping mechanism, and the only authentic thing he feels is his misery. It frames Tamir's question about how a struggling person without big ambitions can start to become real.
