Carved on the Ground (Essays by Zhang Ruifeng)

Author: Zhang Ruifeng
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Under the shimmering star cluster, the buried memories rise to the surface. I see the phosphorescent lights floating in the darkness. Those phosphorescent lights signify death yet attempt to explain the things that once lived. They plunge human thought into the realm of the underworld and emit a faint light within their own hearts. In the face of them, we can only pile up useless words in a comforting way around them, so that our hearts are buried among them. In this way, we can observe ourselves peacefully. The soul and the world exist in a mysterious correspondence only within language. The world is not for us to live in, but for us to narrate it within our lives.