North Island Essays -- The Book of Failure

Author: Bei Dao
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: I am very grateful for these years of wandering, which have kept me away from the center and detached from the hustle and bustle, allowing life to truly sink deep. In the long nights of Scandinavia, I repeatedly fell into despair, silently praying for this moment and for the next life, to overcome the weakness within me. In an interview, I once said: Wandering is an endless journey through nothingness, and only by experiencing boundless nothingness can one understand the limited meaning of existence.