Wednesday, August 03, 2005
The morning dawned bright and clear. Thrushes were singing in the trees, cars were whizzing past on the road, and the deep-throated hum of machinery could be heard clearly where construction workers were starting their day's work. Meanwhile, in a high-rise flat overlooking the road where cars were whizzing by and machinery were humming, the time traveller was soundly asleep. At exactly 9:45 am, the alarm went off in the time traveller's bedroom, and he grudgingly got up and stretched, reminding himself that he had wanted to wake early. Glancing out his bedroom window, he saw the light blue cloudless sky, promised himself that it would be a good day, then set about busying himself with breakfast. All in all the signs of a good day were there.
Then, at a quarter past eleven, something caught the time traveller's eye. Huge cumulonimbus clouds were towering in the distance, and were slowly blanketing out the once light blue sky. The sky looked very strange - blue on one side and black on the other. The time traveller, however, had seen many of this kind of phenomena and was not surprised. He was only hoping that it wouldn't rain before he stepped outside for his lunch appointment and errand. He was, however, quite wrong. Within minutes, strong and gusty winds were howling, and flashes of lightning could be distinctly seen over the horizon, followed by deep peals of thunder, and the time traveller knew he was dead wrong. Moments later, the completely dark skies glared back at him defiantly, as if daring him to challenge the weather. The time traveller, however, was not to be intimidated, and took the first brave step out of the house...
看得见的,听得到的,都可能是假的。但心里的感觉,却一定是真的。 - 时空穿梭者