Paris Butterfly

Author: Liu Zhixia
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Paris itself is a city of dreams, where everything is extreme—either high or low, leaving no room for hazy moderation. Here, everything feels so distant—many places one never gets a chance to visit in a lifetime, never knowing their true depths; yet everything is also so familiar, everything one sees seems like something seen before, as if one had lingered there in a past life. "To combat stiffness in the joints, I perform muscle extension reflex actions, allowing my arms and legs to move gracefully, often enough to relieve the pain in my hands and feet. With the weight of the diving suit reduced, my thoughts can flutter like a butterfly. There are so many things to do—soar through space or time, travel to Tierra del Fuego or the Palace of King Midas; visit the woman I love, sneak close to her side, and gently caress her still sleeping face; build Spanish castles, snatch the Golden Fleece, discover Atlantic City, and fulfill the dreams of childhood and adulthood." Inside his diving suit, there hides a delicate butterfly of thought. The butterfly of thought is the butterfly of dreams, the butterfly of life. This is the entire secret of life.