Traces of Time
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Traces of Time
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Shi Fuhong
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Time breaks memory into fragments like scattered pearls. Overlapping memories appear following the traces of time. Understood—vigor and firmness from the boatmen’s work songs; Known—liveliness and delight from the agile and vivacious shadow puppet’s play; Realized—trains of thought like floating kites; Memorized—the amusements of gamboling children on summer nights; Perceived—the teenagers’ innermost thoughts from the * “flower” flown from the cols.
Time breaks the memory into fragments like the scattered pearls. They are the pearls in life.
* “Flower” signifies love songs, the way young girls are called by their lovers in northwest of China.
Time breaks the memory into fragments like the scattered pearls. They are the pearls in life.
* “Flower” signifies love songs, the way young girls are called by their lovers in northwest of China.