Here is what Dazai has learned so far about being a ghost: It 's not that different from being alive.

The rays of the sun are more distant, his body no longer warm, and his senses dimmed. The main difference is that instead of only feeling like a stranger in this world, Dazai now actually embodies the alienation that has followed him for so long. It should be tyrannical ' and sometimes it is ' but somehow it is also liberating. The cognitive dissonance of feeling unearthly while wearing the skin of a human being no longer plagues him. He

is

unearthly. He is otherworldly and alien and strange. Because he is dead, absolved of the shackles of humanity at last.

And while many pleasures have become rather dull for him, he is happy to report that having a cock in his mouth is just as enjoyable as ever. If not

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