The power of literature lies in its ability to connect us to the universal human experience.

我有一个梦想，这个梦想值得我付出一切。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The world is full of signs and wonders that come, and go, and if you are lucky you might catch the tail of one as it flies past.