3 posts tagged with "Exploration of Human Nature"

The legend of Anai did not begin with any specific event, but rather permeated the city air like a whisper, an unsettling consensus. She was a deaf-mute girl, a fact that might ordinarily elicit only pity or indifference. However, Anai possessed an unsettling, almost absolute perfection of features. This perfection was not beauty in the conventional sense, but a kind of harmony that transcended human aesthetic experience, as if it were a fragile, fleeting projection of "Beauty itself" from Plato's world of Forms.

Li Cheng, an ordinary clerk in the city of Beiping, squeezed onto the clanging trams every day, traveling from the pigeon coop in the south of the city to the concrete buildings in the north, earning just enough money to get by. Life was like a donkey pulling a millstone, going around in circles, with no end in sight.

On this day, Li Cheng returned home from work, as usual, exhausted, like a toad that had been drained of its strength. He entered the house, turned on the light, and the bright white bulb illuminated the four white walls, empty and desolate, revealing a sense of shabbiness. He took off his shoes, plopped down on the hard wooden bed, and stared blankly at the wall.

Old Zhang has been feeling a bit troubled lately.

It's not because of anything in particular, it's just that he feels like he can't understand the world anymore.