Sea Fantasy – The sea of time transforms like a fantasy

Sea Fantasy – The sea of time transforms like a fantasy

By Limu Xiangbu

＊The pursuit of mobile may not just escape

I have always liked Duan Yifu (human geographer)'s discussion of human escape behavior (movement)

He mentions three possibilities for escape:

First, because the harsh natural environment makes it impossible to live in the same place, they have to migrate elsewhere.

Second, because of cultural (political, religious, economic, etc.) restrictions, people want to escape from excessive and unfair power control, or turn to places with more opportunities

The third is that when there is confusion and stalemate in life, human beings understand that only by escaping from the chaotic reality and reality can distance be exchanged for a more objective and clear understanding.

for whatever reason

because of escape, because of movement

Only human beings have the possibility to expand their life experience.

It can be said to be lucky (according to the paragraph, or Peter Adey mentioned the advantages of mobility, then you can choose to escape and move is indeed a kind of luck)

Also as a human geography (with a side) researcher (working hard towards this direction)

I also often go to the lives of others by studying the fields

Observe, feel and speculate on their daily life and mood

(even far and near, be careful)

Isn't that a temporary escape from one's own life?

The protagonist of the story, Akino, is also such a human geographer

He went to one of Japan's many archipelagos

Visiting the visible and invisible

Stories of those buried in mountains, forests, rivers, and the belly of beasts

By walking and communicating (verbal and non-verbal)

He slowly recorded what "could be" the island's past

(As a humanities researcher, we all know that, no matter how careful we are, the "perspective" itself carries non-objective judgments and choices.)

Akino showed another possibility

Escape is not necessarily all about leaving the status quo

(Although there is indeed some reason in the story that prompted him to leave his life and come to this island)

Sometimes it's for something that you'll get unexpectedly after you come back

*Time is the greatest illusionist

<Sea Fantasy> still reminds me of Selma Lagerlöf's <The Adventures of Riding a Goose>

(The last time I read <Cordyceps sinensis>, I had the same feeling, so I won’t repeat it.)

By recording the bits and pieces of the land where you are from your travels

But the atmosphere is more subtle and calm

More...with Japanese repression

The story begins with a legend being told

At the end, the story is recalled again

The last sentence at the end of the book

"Across the long illusion. The horizon beyond is a place without a name." (p255.)

It expresses the change of mood of the protagonist's life

From my youth to this island

want to know everything

Desperately crawling and combing the truth

Until I return to the island after half a century

I understand that all things in this world are beyond time

Fame, opinion, and even circumstances (there is no such thing as vicissitudes) will change

Neither is real, permanent

Just like in the story, the author keeps seeing the "traces" but can't find the "ear teacher" who proves his existence

He has never been able to prove that he/they existed

But if you reject the pursuit of those "scientific" verifications

The same living you (inner) and experience will tell you

he/they did exist

just too much

In our short life, we can't be verified one by one

"Enjoying the same vivid breeze when I first arrived here, my original mourning for the things that are about to pass... Gradually, a change occurred in my heart... When I was young, it was pure enthusiasm and emotion that circulated throughout my body, but now there is only a quiet feeling in my heart. ” (p253.)

This also brings up another problem with the story

When everything fades away over time

Even if it's still in your memory, even if it's written down on paper

Even if you really walk and touch

You can't help but wonder if it ever existed

This is the power of time and the insignificance of all things

That's why humans often have to rely on "visible, tactile" things to prove they're alive

By feeling and proving the existence of others/things

we also exist

Like what a fragile and pitiful species the dodder is

Even sometimes a living person stands in front of you

its face

not necessarily the real him

Instead, what he said

written word

something to do

Unconscious emotions in the eyes

closer to the real him

"It's unbelievable. Rather than the impression of himself, the "things" he made are more strongly identified with its essence. ” (p120.)

*Like the real

I want to see, even touch is not necessarily true

This is also another meaning of the title of "Sea Fantasy".

Mirage

everything we see

Isn't it all the presentation of the other party projected into our hearts

It is an image created by twists and turns, refraction and folding.

Like the cave in Plato's "Republic"

what we think is true

But it's all illusion

The style of this book is less goblin and legend than Limu Kabu's past (especially the early Jiashou Chitan)

The description of the scene is inexplicably more fantastical

Perhaps it is precisely because the reality of the scene reflects the illusory feeling of the emotions behind it.

"Sometimes antelopes can be seen standing still in the snow in winter. The deer that live in groups will march in the snow because it is better to follow the footsteps of the former deer. An antelope that walks alone can only move step by step in the thick snow... "...After growing up and going up the mountain, I found an antelope standing upright and staring into the distance several times in the snow, always wondering what it was looking at?"

What are the antelope looking at? In the white land with blurry vision and swirling snowflakes. However, instead of squatting down, it stayed standing until it died. What happened? The warm body first froze and necrosed from the tips of the ears and toes one by one, and moved towards death. What did its eyes see in the process? What is the last image that catches your eye? ” (P173-175.)

turn out to be

Nature/universe is the most fantastic existence in this world

Because there is a force and a weight behind it that we can't understand, we can't grasp

＊Whether time itself will be confused by illusion

After the story

After Akino circled the island (almost)

Back to the "real world/main island"

Then just like Kamashima Taro

Fifty years have passed suddenly in the next chapter

Countless people died

War erupts and smolders all over the world

A person's life is like this

has come to an end

Then because of the relationship with the child (new era)

He's back on the island

Through his eyes (the body of an aging individual) we see almost everything on the island

But by comparison

The island he saw when he was young is to someone fifty years ago

Isn't it totally different

Husband of heaven and earth, the reverse journey of all things. Those of time, passers-by of a hundred generations.

The author uses a small researcher (he ultimately failed to submit his field study for publication 😭)

Tell us everything like a dream bubble

I want to say that it is like a dream, and it is joyful geometry

In fact, as long as you feel the moment you feel it is real

there is something left in your heart

That moment is eternal joy and satisfaction

After all, sometimes too much research

just for curiosity

It's hard to get close to the real truth

One of the ruins in the story is a fort

It "sounds" when Akino Young Tian tunes

Said to be completed independently by a monk named Liangxin

is a very long

When it grows up, the island has to rebuild a stone wall that cannot be demolished

But no one knows why he built the wall

"What is the "fortress" that you plan to defend? Is it "time" that is constantly eroding like a raging wave? Or do you want to protect the "memories" that are about to be forgotten? ” (p230.)

but not important

that wall was left

The reason is unknown

But the will to build the wall is felt through a hundred years

to stand against time

"When people put so much effort into accomplishing something, I believe that no one understands the real reason." (p230.)

If you know the time

No matter how wise he is

Are you also confused by the interweaving of so many thoughts for such a long time?

Is the truth really the daughter of time?

Or time will also be psychedelic by itself

This is the truth

＊After the trip

If I want to say that this is still not my favorite book of Limu Xiangbu

But I "felt" deeply when I read it

I think she went through the middle books after

Finally wrote what she wanted to write

I feel the will of the author behind the expression

(Just like the monk Liangxin, the other person may not understand the meaning of the action, but from the results presented/made, we can all feel that this is the characteristic of being a human being?)

I think this book is more literary

The depth of the story is more subtle and more like a cave than ever before

full of voices

Every reader is like the protagonist of the book

was suddenly led into that cave

just finally hear what

everyone's heart

neither know

＊Later on

I quite like the passage mentioned in it

shadow is wind

I think of Tadao Ando's Church of the Wind

Not like the Church of Light or the Church of Water

Elements can be seen directly

Instead, through the translucent corridor

you can hear the wind

You can even see the silhouette of the branches blowing by the wind outside the corridor projected on the top of the fog corridor

We don't need touch, we don't need hearing

you can see the "wind"

As long as there is enough feeling

The world is indeed full of all kinds of beauty