Block Rain?? Lan yu was surprised. This is not the nickname she used normally. Normally she use Blue Feather. Block Rain. A nickname given to her by her JC GP teacher. She can still remember the day, when she introduced herself as Lan Yu on the very first GP lesson. The teacher suddenly smiled and replied, "Block Rain ah?" Lan Yu was stunned and puzzled for a few seconds before she realised that it's her name's direct translation. An innovative nickname, but it sucks.
"Who are you? How do you know my nick? This nick."
"Who I am is not important. Let me ask you a question. Do you find something strange in your world? Like... me appearing in your dreams, you don't remember your life, or sometimes, time seems to stop?"
"What the heck are you talking about??" Lan Yu is getting more and more uneasy about this funny guy, this guy who comes out of nowhere.
"Can you guess why?" The boy smiles. Even though Lan Yu can't see him, somehow she knows he's smiling. "You are nothing but my figment of my imagination. You, and the world around you."
"Who do you think you're? God? I don't believe you."
"You've read Sophie's World before, don't you? You should know George Berkeley."
Of course Lan Yu has read Sophie's World before. She loves to read novels, and Sophie's World is one of the more well-known novels presently. However, some may argue that it's actually a philosophy textbook in disguise, hence the name Sophie's World. Anyway, having the exceptional ability of photographic memory, Lan Yu had the whole 'textbook' memorised. As a result, George Berkeley is no stranger to her. He was an Irish philosopher who lived from 1685 to 1753. He was the first who questioned the reality of the material world. He argued that even though you can see the table, feel the table, it doesn't mean that the table exist. The image and the feeling of the table you saw and felt may be nothing more than a thought, a mental illusion. In short, he denied that existence of the material world beyond the human mind. It's the central idea of stories like Matrix and Sophie's World.
Actually in Lan Yu's opinion, Sophie's World is more than a philosophy textbook, it's a work of a creative genius! The story is about a girl named Sophie, who is actually a fictional character in a book written by Hilde's father in the real world. When Sophie learnt from Alberto that their world is simply created by Hilde's father, they tried to escape into the real world. They almost succeed in the end. After Lan Yu finished the book, she thought it's quite ironical for Sophie to escape into the real world, since both her world and Hilde (and her father's)'s world are both created by Jostein Gaader. At that time, she was also wondering maybe the world as she knows it may be created by someone else.
Then it strikes a chord. What if...
"How do I know you are not a figment of my imagination instead? Or some joker from the net?" Lan Yu cannot believe, refused to believe.
"Will you take the Red pill or the Blue pill?"
Lan Yu senses that at another part of the world, or another world, this joker is laughing at her. He knew what her answer will be long before she answers. "Red."
"Red, the truth. Haha, as expected, or should I say, as I've written?" Lan Yu is very miserable now. This guy is having fun, at her expense.
"Go to this website, and you'll know the truth.
http://spaces.msn.com/members/fengyanfengyu/
It's my blog =)"
(To be continued...)
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