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"Photos That Don't Exist" is a collection of fictional letters written by Fan Xiaochun. The perspective of the entire book is split into the narrator and the hidden listener, but in the end it all comes back to the author's own narrative. The two protagonists who disappear and appear in the letters look at everything in the world, and tell the landscape of the world - self and others under order through scenes related to photography, painting, architecture, and literature.

This is a special collection of essays. It is not fashionable, but it is complex and readable. It is Fan Xiaochun's random observations and recordings of life and his thoughts based on a lot of reading. In fact, its theme is clear: how a person gradually completes himself. Loving, aloof, tenacious, self-aware, fully committed, and aloof. Regarding the reconstruction of life order and inner order, Fan Xiaochun is calm and determined. Her writing is always accurate. The "Index" is perhaps the best way to enter the book. Intuitive and improvisational. This drive to read will make people return to silence and gain strength in silence.

A journey of rebuilding the order of life and inner order, and an interesting dialogue with an independent soul. The first edition of "The Moment No Need to Talk" is mostly written by Fan Xiaochun during his time in New York between 2012 and 2015. Five years later, she slightly added and deleted the text based on the first edition, returning to the original disorderly and themeless arrangement. It is said that it is disordered, but in fact it is sorted by her mood at the time, almost in a diary manner. "The Moment When You Don't Have to Talk" is an essay in which each sentence is displayed individually. You can start or stop on any page without any hindrance. You can read a few pages anytime, anywhere, or read them over and over again. It is suitable for reading in any occasion and instantly enters the scene of the book. Her words may be herself, a kind of strong conflict and opposition, and a very conscious restraint, so that this conflict and opposition can coexist peacefully. This may be a kind of power that can take root and grow like a tree, while also being able to have a bird's eye view of oneself from the perspective of a bystander. You will be amazed by her ability to pick and combine individual words, her sensitivity and precision. To speak the unspeakable is a kind of transgression, or submission. The reader becomes a participant and a bystander, entering into a kind of language, cognition, experience, or into her life at that time.