Observer's fantasy

Author: Geng Zhanchun
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Seeing, hearing, smelling, and touching are the ways we possess and experience things, as well as the means by which humans love, enjoy, and suffer. Sight and touch are the fundamental ways humans interact with objects, representing tangible human activities. As modes of contact and sensation, they encompass the recognition of objects. Seeing, hearing, and touching: a form of thinking in action. Sight and touch, though always encountering many familiar things, remain ambiguous to the eyes, ears, and hands, never quite equating to the realm of semantics. Sight and touch engage with the unfamiliar and unnamed aspects of things, awakening the gaze in the vast anonymity of existence. Thought is precisely composed of these astonishing "sights": insights, discoveries, awareness, and striking moments that awaken the eyes. The author of this book, as a "observer," meticulously depicts all the subtle sensations that the eyes, ears, and hands can perceive. The writing is fluent, the mind lively, and the prose brilliant.