In a novel titled for this place, an intern steals and burns his teacher’s prized butterfly and ridicules his colleague with the motto “today everybody’s on the way out.” In another novel, a man who goes to this place in search of the “Grand Cause” is vilified in a speech about how fathers are “evil itself” by a boy called Number One. In a novel titled for this place by Shūsaku Endō, a medical student is asked to perform vivisections on American POWs. A novel titled for this place in English ends by noting “glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff” as a man drinks drugged tea. In that novel titled for this place, a boy who spies on his mother through a peephole loses his admiration for a man who serves as second mate aboard the Rakuyo. For 10 points, the title of a Yukio Mishima novel notes that Ryuji “fell from grace with” what place? ■END■
ANSWER: the sea [or ocean; or umi; accept The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea; accept The Sea and Poison or Umi to dokuyaku]
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