【大意】干枯的竹子能生火，但不去钻它就不会燃烧；地下藏有泉源，但不去挖掘就流不出泉水来。

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

The holographic principle suggests that the information content of a region of space can be thought of as encoded on the boundary of that region, much like a hologram.

故事是作者写给自己的信，用来告诉自己那些无法通过其他方式发现的事。