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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Space Pudding 1 Box of Instant Pudding (for 2 children) Milk (according to instructions on pudding box) Ziploc® bags (1 for each child) Measuring cups For a Space Theme, talk to the children about how astronauts need to eat differently when they are in space because of gravity. Pour half a box of pudding into each child's Ziploc bag. Measure enough milk to make half a box of pudding and allow children to add it to their pudding in the bag. Seal the bag (make sure it's really sealed!!) Children can squish the bag around with their hands, mixing the pudding with the milk. When all of the pudding is mixed, cut a small hole in the corner of the bag and let the kids suck the pudding out!

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No doubt this was due to the parallels to Mishima's own suicide in 1970, the circumstances of which were remarkably similar to the events portrayed in the film

Based on Mishima's own novel of the same name, which was in turn inspired by the true events of 'Ni ni roku' - a failed, patriotically-motivated, attempted coup by a group of officers on February 26, 1936 - Yukoku deals with the ritual suicide of high-ranking naval officer Takeyama.

Shot in black and white, silent with long expository intertitles elaborating on the goings-on and detailing the historical background of the story, Mishima (who performed the lead part, wrote, directed and produced) visually references Noh theatre.

Kimitaké Hiraoka

Yukio Mishima

When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table

yellow fog

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

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