Outsider's language

Author: Xu Gang
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: At the edge of the river, at the edge of the sea, it is the edge of water. At the edge of faintness, at the edge of saltiness, it is the edge of life. People at the edge are often numb. Dreams at the edge are often awakened. The edge is a kind of landscape. In a certain sense, the state of the edge is always a state of brewing change, and it is also the best state to activate one's thoughts and emotions. Between survival and destruction, either numbness ends or wisdom sparkles. When people are at the edge, grass is at the edge, fish are at the edge, and fate and opportunity are at the edge. From the freedom of the edge to the edge of freedom, people feel cautious yet unburdened, and with thoughts of the edge, the world becomes boundless. The edge is lonely. The edge is beautiful. After being far from mythology, the revelations of the edge are etched in every grain of sand, grown in every reed, embedded in every scale, and carried on every pair of wings—between creation and disaster, between peace and violence, between happiness and suffering, between the ethereal and the material, between survival and destruction, we are all edgeless.