The heavens and earth encompass all space. Does the universe have an end? The past and present encompass all time. Does time ever stop?
Does civilization have an origin? Do all things possess a spirit? The answer: What lives long must eventually be buried; what endures forever must remain hidden.
An old thing that refuses to die is a monster.
A monster without limits is the Heavenly Dao.
On the far side of the bright moon, a massive gray pillar came crashing down, pounding out a crater several miles wide. A rusty bronze gleam appeared. The modified human, who could rest for only three hours each day, trembled as he used his rough hands to brush away the loose soil, revealing ancient Daoist inscriptions carved into the surface. The history of the Zhuangjia survivors had been concealed by time beneath the gray lunar soil. The character for
