刑天

在時間的巨大虛空裡頭，記憶被吞噬。不過，這卻是人類的珍貴天賦之一。神不會遺忘，也不為了尚未來到的時間感到驚慌；在神的時間裡，沒有歷史也沒有未來。神的時間即是永恆的當下。但不同於人，全能的神是時間的奴隸，或說時間是神明在自身施下的詛咒。或許世上存在苦痛與惡魔的緣由，就是因為在永恆之中所有的死亡都輕如鴻毛。 「總是會有一些過剩的記憶如奢侈品一般偷偷穿過虛掩的大門。它們，無意識世界的信差，讓我們看到在自己身後不知不覺拖曳著的東西。」 秋日虛弱的金光中，毛地黃蔓延整座山頭。直到下次榮盛的時節，地球又回到軌道的同一個位置。夜空中的繁星都來自遙遠的過去，是光子的幽靈。人的生命彷彿沙塵，這有時使人厭倦；然而生命本身卻又來自塵埃，群星是我們的母親，而人類是宇宙的化身。意識到最初的起源後，萬物都不禁手舞足蹈。 "We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea." — D.H. Lawrence Xingtian is a mythological figure who first appeared in ancient Chinese text Shan Hai Jing. In bone scripts, he was symbolized into a single character as ‘men’. In his immortal existence, his flesh and soul crystallized and he never ceased to seek enemies, trapped in his own frustration. But paradoxically there must be a purpose of the gifted significance of men’s mortality. In being alive people find the beauty of death, and in our inevitable death the purest pleasure of existence.

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