Engraved on the ground: Zhang Ruifeng's Prose

Author: Zhang Ruifeng
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Under the shimmering star cluster, the buried memories rose to the surface. I saw the phosphorescent lights floating in the darkness—those lights signified death yet tried to explain the things that once lived. They plunged human thought into the realm of the underworld, and in their own hearts, they emitted faint light. In the face of it, we can only heap useless words around it in some comforting way, 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 life.