In English, consciousness and unconsciousness are part of a vertical plane, so that we wake up β and we fall β asleep and we sink β into a coma. Chinese uses the horizontal line, so that to wake is to cross a border towards consciousness β and to faint is to go back β . Meanwhile, time itself is vertical so that last year is βthe year aboveβ β and next year is βthe year belowβ β. The day before yesterday is the day βin frontβ β and the day after tomorrow is the day βbehindβ β. This means that future generations are not the generations ahead, but the ones behind. Therefore, to look into the future one must turn around...
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