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The Flowers of Buffoonery - Sam Bett Hardback Benevolence sheds light on theThe Flowers of Buffooneryopens in a seaside sanatorium where Yozo Oba the narrator ofNo Longer Humanat a younger age is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a light hearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking