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Author: Eyeless
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Stories about four people aren’t much to talk about. What can we do? No matter how we try, we can’t be more extraordinary than theater or more moving than a story. It’s just back and forth—“I love you, you don’t love me, I love him, he loves her,” or at most, “he loves him.” In the end, it’s still about loving the unlovable, loving the unlovable, loving what you don’t want, and wanting what you don’t love. Written down, it all looks fake. The “we” in the story is growing. This growth is like a vine plant, starting from the same root, winding and twisting, climbing toward all sorts of possibilities. The older we grow, the more lonely we become. We drift apart and come together at the far end, loving and being loved. Three stories—just three fleeting glimpses of strangers: What Kind of Love: Xiaoxiao loves Lei, An loves Mang, Lei loves An, and does Mang love Lei? A tangle of four people, starting with a play and ending with the same play. We know whether we love or not, but nothing can be more extraordinary than theater. Yet, like children or patients, we plunge headfirst without thinking it through. For Example, Single: Lovers are separated by time and the ocean, while memories of the past are dissolved by the tangled relationships between people; Come Here, Let’s Tell a Story: The story of Lola and Zika. Twin siblings grow up relying on each other, yet every moment, they remain solitary. When one person tells the story of another’s growth, they can only be like helpless bystanders, watching others’ stories as if they were happening to themselves. Eyeless uses a peculiar line-breaking style to highlight the rhythm of the text, expressing emotions through rhythm. Shorter, longer, faster, slower—like the different glows of youth. The light is pure, and the rhythm makes the reader feel that the one telling the story is themselves. Look forward, look backward, look deeper, look in all directions. Readers can’t easily escape until they start imagining their own youth and growth.