The Flowers of Buffoonery

Dazai's novella about a man recovering in a sanatorium after a failed double suicide. Tamir notes it was written before No Longer Human yet works as its sequel and has a more hopeful tone.

Where it appears 2

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  merchant of masksEp 6 · with Logan Macnair

  Dazai's novella about a young man who wakes in a seaside sanatorium after a botched double suicide, with friends visiting him. Tamir uses it to show the price of faking it: if you clown yourself to make others happy long enough, the mask eventually gives.

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  the antidote to madnessEp 2 · with Grant Shipway

  Listen at 31:34Read it in the transcript

Connections

Written by

• Osamu Dazai

Related

• Sad Clown

Mentioned alongside

• Fake it long enough and you payTamir Barzilai · Ep 6 · 24:03

  Clowning yourself for others from a place of pain, rather than natural humor, eventually reaches a precipice where something gives. Dazai's novella and the sad-clown pattern show the bill…