You have to remain sceptical on everything you witness and hear when you wander in the boundless world of unreality. Before you start to accept anything run towards you, you have to ask: The phenomenon that projects themselves before me, are you real? Are you reliable? Because this space of nothingness is fully occupied with the wandering shadow, you might not be able to grope the exact essence itself behind the shadow, even you could be deceived by their appearance.

Perhaps due to the short period of indulgence in the world of unreality, I can’t get rid of the anxiety in the communication with the shadows while I'm attempting to grope their essence. However, the solid curiosity within my heart desperately pushes me to step on that tightrope, while there are none of the slight ideas on when to arrive at the other side of twin towers. If you have mistaken any consideration on the balancing, you could end up lying on the busy pedestrian street 1,400 feet below and witness the next courageous volunteer to complete the task you do not accomplish.

But you can only look at it in vain, the act that is destined to fail at the end.

What if the shadow itself is the shadow catcher that grope the essence of the shadow too, by sparing no pains?

Knowing this shadow catcher was no difference with the other shadow, he has been projecting the other side of the twin towers on me at the beginning, and hence the tightrope walk began. The words are your shadow catching tools, you always manage to net the meaningful world out of the world full of uncertainty with the meaning inherited in words themselves; that’s when I started to learn to utilize the words from you, inspired my pilgrimage of meaning-seeking. We have attempted to picture out a concrete image from the chaotic body of the shadow with millions of words, just to ensure the shadow able to pass the tightrope in a balanced gesture. The composition of the words has to be perpetual so that the chaotic body of the shadow could be temporarily obtained a momentary portrait; if the unilateral composition starts to cease, the portraited image would at the brink of returning to its chaos.

I remembered there was a time you asked about my recent status out of sudden. Then I realized we have lost in touch for a long time, I noticed my memory on you started to fade, the anxiety of knowing you at the beginning has resurfaced again. I didn’t wish to let go of the precious shadow to fade into the infinite abyss, I determined to keep this relationship. I have to look over every single corner of my brain, to recompose the leftover memory residue in one piece, only then our unilateral composition of the words able to resume to its initial stage.

Thinking of that thoroughly, I have been keeping myself a distance away with the shadow full of uncertainty, in a certain extent, isn’t myself also the essence behind the shadow that is peeked by someone else too?

Thanks for being a dedicated shadow catcher, for the time being, you have been occasionally embracing the scattering shadow, and offering spiritual consolation with the words.

I believe this is an accomplishable task, let’s meet on the tightrope.

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在蒼茫無邊的虛擬世界裡漫遊時，必須對裡面所見所聞保留質疑的態度，在你接受一切向你湧來的表象時，你必須問：任何顯現於你面前的現象，是否真實？是否可信？因為虛無縹緲的空間裡面充滿了溜達的影子，你可能無法摸索影子背後的本質為何物，甚至被它的表面給矇騙。

也許浸淫在虛擬世界的時間不久，每當跟影子溝通進行本質摸索的過程當中，我還免不了有點戰戰兢兢，可是心裡不可磨滅的好奇心卻拼命督促我硬著頭皮繼續在鋼索上行走，即使什麼時候才可以走到雙子塔的另一端不得而知。萬一在平衡度上拿捏有任何差錯，你最後只能躺在一千四百尺以下熙熙攘攘的行人街道上眼睜睜的看著下一位勇氣可嘉的自願者完成你無法完成的任務。

而你只能眼睜睜的見證這一場徒然，注定失敗的舉動。

如果影子本身也是不辭勞苦的摸索影子本質的捕影人呢？

認識這位捕影人的過程與其它影子無異，他一開始便往我身上投射了雙子塔的另一端，鋼索之行從此開始。文字是你的捕影器，你總是善用文字本身的意義為這充滿不確定性的世界網羅出一片有意義的天地。於是我也從你身上學會使用文字，同時也啟發了我追尋意義的路。我們通過數以萬計的文字試圖將影子混沌的本體具體明確的刻畫出來，以確保影子以均衡的姿態走過那一道鋼索。文字的堆砌必須持之以恆，影子混沌的形象才得以定時獲得片刻的刻畫；當這堆砌的互動關係開始放緩，刻畫出來的形象開始出現頻臨混沌邊緣。

我記得有一段時期，你突然問候我最近過得怎樣。我才驚覺我們許久沒聯絡了，我察覺記憶中的你開始模糊了，認識你初期的緊張頓時浮現。我不捨這個難得一見的影子消逝於那無限深淵，我立志要將這段關係緊緊握住，我惟有竭力翻尋我腦子裡的每個角落，將僅存的回憶碎片拼湊起來，我們之間的文字堆砌才得以繼續堆砌。

回想起來，我一直以來對充滿不確定性的影子敬而遠之，在某程度上在別人眼中我何嘗也不是別人渴求窺探的影子背後的本質？

謝謝你這些日子以來不遺餘力的扮演捕影人的角色，不定時地將流離顛沛的影子一一包容，再輔以文字給予我心靈上的慰藉。

我相信這可以完成的任務，我們在鋼索上見面吧。