Inverted

Those vanished years are like a piece of dusty glass.
I can see it, but I can't grasp it. What I see is also vague.
One positive and one negative are connected in reverse order.
Two people walking towards each other from opposite ends of the street, separated by time—
On the busy streets of Hong Kong,
Chunyu Bai is filled with nostalgia;
Ya Xing dreams of a romantic and ideal future.
The two people made different associations of nostalgia or romance about the street windows and the storm.
Finally, we unexpectedly walked into the same chair in the adjacent seats of the cinema and the park.
Chunyu Bai thought about the good old days and felt like he was getting younger.
Ya Xing imagines having sex with a handsome man, and it comes true in her dream...
Faced with emptiness, they try to eliminate it with a negative attitude and numb themselves with memories and fantasies.
Two birds flew up together, one to the east and the other to the west.
Everything will vanish like smoke.
"Duel" is a novel by Liu Yichang.
It was also the inspiration for Wong Kar-wai's film In the Mood for Love.
"Double Opposition" takes its title from a narrative structure: the author's purchase of a pair of postage stamps in 1972, one positive and one negative, inverted, inspired her to write the novel in this format. "Double Opposition" forms another kind of "dual-track structure," employing a stream-of-consciousness approach to depict strangers walking opposite each other on the streets of Mong Kok, Kowloon, creating a stark contrast between the differing mentalities of generations in Hong Kong.

2023-07-13

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