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△ 314｜Shape
At this moment, there is a thick fog outside the window, and light is transmitted through the buildings. With the initial perception of light by human beings—those left on the cave paintings, people describe the existence of light in lines and radiating shapes. Before the birth of John Tyndall, light had such a form, but it was later named the “Tyndall effect”.
Abstract light has a figurative shape, but it still cannot be touched. The light transmitted from the windows of the Sistine Cathedral alternately appears on both sides of the “Genesis” of the sacred dome, just diffused in the first chapter of “Genesis”, “Divine Light and Darkness”, which makes people give light to the light. definition of “sacred”.
During the winter vacation last year, I drove to the top of the mountain with my wife on a mountain road with nine turns and eighteen turns. It happened to encounter fog and sun alternating weather. Sunlight penetrates through the gaps in the leaves and is divided into light corridors leading to the lowest level of the boulevard. When I was a child, I learned a physical knowledge about “small hole imaging” from my favorite “One Hundred Thousand Whys”. When light passes through strangely shaped small holes, the final image is the original appearance of the light source – that is to say, light From between those finely divided leaves, it will eventually form a “dot” on the ground, which is people’s original understanding of the shape of the sun.
The city where I grew up is like a concrete forest. There is not enough land in Chongqing, so high-rise buildings have become a concrete formula to redefine the area. Every year, many tall buildings rise up in Chongqing, turning the original shrubs into forests. There are still some old residential buildings that seem to never “grow tall” between the forests. I call them “lichens”. They are the biomes that live at the bottom of the forest, but without them, the existence of the entire cement forest cannot be maintained— -Here provides resources that the building forest cannot provide. And these resources can only be cultivated and provided in the original way of human beings, and then displayed in the wet and smelly but full of vitality vegetable market. The forest is an abstract concept, but the city gives the forest another shape.
My first blog, titled “Forest, City, Life, Earth”, was a mockery of myself, as a Chongqing native, who couldn’t naturally distinguish the “physiological structure” of the flat tongue and front and rear nasal sounds. I liken the city to a forest, which should be the unique urban structure of Chongqing. It is irregular, broken, and divided by water and mountains. The city is close to the water and grows by the mountains. In order to distribute sunlight fairly, buildings must be arranged in accordance with Certain rules present ingenious mistakes and angles. When I was studying in the north, I felt “boring” every time I looked out the window on the train. Because the shape of these houses has only one most important “standard” – sunlight, solar water heaters, all face south, and those graves also grow towards the sun. I don’t know why the poplar trees that always grow together are used as the division of fields and fields, and households from households. As for the shape of the city of Chongqing, sunlight is only a reference standard. It also needs to follow the rules of rivers and rocks, which is quite a play on “natural laws”.
Back to light, someone explained the “Tyndall effect” in a more romantic and artistic way, that is, giving light a “shape”. All literature and art cannot escape the topics of love, sex and death. The Tyndall effect defines the “shape” of light, so it is also applied to emotional matters. Although it is far-fetched, it is full of the spell of love for “men and women in love” in a certain period. “My love for you has a Tyndall effect”, which probably means that my love for you has a concrete shape – as for what the shape is, this is a secret between two people.
In fact, anything can be related to love, sex and death, it just depends on how you re-deconstruct abstract concepts. For example, at this moment, there is a round black coffee table in my field of vision, only the height of the calf, two people standing on the diameter of the coffee table could have held hands with each other. But this is love. The two circled around the black round coffee table. They could see each other, but neither dared to pull each other. It’s like a relationship separated by a layer of paper. As long as someone pierces it, they can officially confirm each other, but no one crosses it. It’s not that they dare not, maybe they don’t want to break through the continuation of this ambiguity.
In Japanese, it does not directly indicate that one person loves the other. The more ambiguous the relationship between the two, the less their relationship will go beyond the center point of the “coffee table”. They circle each other towards the same Walk in one direction. In Japanese, “I like you” is rarely directly stated, but “servo-kun’s thing が好き” is used. The literal translation is “I like your things”. If you look at it literally, what is this thing worth? No one can tell, but it is a shape that exists. For example, one person likes another person, but the expression is that I like the book you read – although this kind of transmission of love and Wu is vague, but it also shows that there is no need to pierce the window paper.
The black coffee table can also be used as the shape of “death”. In “The Vortex”, Junji Ito made a very artistic commentary on the death of his father as a potter. The father, who was looking for the perfect pottery work, added the element of swirl to the work. In the end, in pursuit of the most perfect work, he twisted his body into a vortex, and placed himself in a disc. The container was like the black coffee table in front of my eyes at this moment. It was his last work, and the vessel that contained his twisted body was his final coffin. When his father was cremated, his body turned into thick black smoke and escaped from the chimney of the crematorium, and turned into a huge black vortex in the air, leaving the last annotation for his life and the beginning of the curse of the whole work.
The coffin is rectangular, so that people can lie in it more smoothly. But I don’t think this is death. Death and life are a cycle. People are born from embryos, go through life and finally enter death. I don’t think lying flat is the way to die, but it should return to its original appearance. People curl up in a circular container, return their body to the placenta, enter eternal sleep in this way, and then Waiting for the chance of immortality – of course, the shape of the coffin cannot be made into a circle, because they are not easy to handle and transport. When death becomes plural, their individual is lost and becomes a number about death. In order to be able to transport the maximum number of “deaths” on a corpse transport vehicle, the shape of the coffins is rectangular, which makes it easier to stack and use space, making each of their deaths lose their original meaning, but only ” die”.
The fog has dissipated, and the shape of the light has returned to the original abstract concept. The light that has lost the Tyndall effect has become the “parallel light” defined in physics. The most primitive calculation rule about time, according to the rules of the sundial, leaves the shape of time.
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