“Like everyone, everything develops too fast; a machine in there can produce trucks of computer parts per week; its quantity is the stars; its quality, I don’t know. Just the speed is too fucking amazing.
“And more likely, here, more people are faking more things than you can imagine. Like fake eggs, fake milk, fake tofu. But this bowl of noodles is real. The noodles taste like noodles. I bought them this morning from a supermarket. The supermarket is too big. You can easily get lost in it. Having lived in the countryside for fifty years, I never imagined what a supermarket looked like. Each time going to the supermarket has the same freshness as visiting the town once every year or two from home. Everything in there is interesting but dazzling. Many colorful items attract my attention then hurt my eyes. For those too pretty and also too expensive, I have to keep a distance.”