Pat was feeling fanatical so Ben brings in a colleague from the University of Mississippi's East Asian Studies Department, Prof. Eric J. Nagurney, to teach Pat about the nationalist philosophy of Yukio Mishima. Mishima, born Kimitake Hiraoka, was (and perhaps remains) Japan's most celebrated novelist of the 20th Century. This dude embodied the unique homegrown philosophy of Bushido, fusing elements of Eastern philosophy, Shinto religion, and the far-right nationalism that got Japan in so much trouble in the 1940's. After being snubbed for a Nobel Prize for the second time, this man-of-letters/fanatic/gay bodybuilder ended his life as you'd expect: Ritual Seppuku!