A drawing of the Noppera-bō by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, through Wikimedia Commons. Public area. On the night time of July 24, 1927, Ryunosuke Akutagawa swallowed a deadly quantity of Veronal, slipped onto a futon beside his spouse, and fell asleep studying the Bible. The author was thirty-five years outdated. Proclaiming himself an atheist but preoccupied by Christianity, […]