Please Clap from Vile Bodies by Nico Fantasy

from Vile Bodies, released October 14, 2018
Other than the immortal moment of Jeb Bush’s defining humiliation, the strings are from Phillip Glass’ score to Paul Schrader’s film “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters”, specifically the piece “1937: Saint Sebastian”. It is performed by the Kronos Quartet. The piece accompanies Yukio Mishima’s realization, as a young teen, that he has homosexual feelings after being aroused by a depiction of a naked Saint Sebastian being pierced by arrows.

Yukio Mishima was a great author of Japanese fiction, and he also attempted a coup of the Japanese armed forces and committed seppuku when he failed. This happened in the 1970s. This would be like if Margaret Atwood attempted a coup. Post-War Japan: There Are Some Problems.