If I said that I met Darwin last week, you might think I'd gone crazy.
Yet meet him I did, in the flesh.
And if I told you that in this column I was going to connect Charles Robert Darwin (1809-82) with someone apparently completely unrelated — the renowned Japanese nationalist and author Yukio Mishima (1925-70) — I'd forgive you for thinking that I'd completely lost it.
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