Not that there are no ghosts

But that their influence becomes propitious

In the sound existence of a living man;

There is no difference between the quick and the dead,

They are one channel of vitality.

—Lao Tzu

… a country so strange that not even the air had anything in common with his native air, where one might die of strangeness, and yet whose enchantment was such that one could only go on and lose oneself forever.

—Franz Kafka

Perhaps I should tell the children

A tale.

—Yang Lian