Carved on the Ground - Prose by Zhang Ruifeng

Author: Zhang Ruifeng
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Under the shimmering star clusters, the buried memories rise to the surface. I see the phosphorescent lights flickering in the darkness—those lights signify death yet attempt to explain the things that once lived. They plunge the human mind into the realm of the underworld and emit a faint light within one's own heart. 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—thus, 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.