The Two Thousand and Forty-Seventh Night

Au Ka-lun
Knight Fellow at Stanford University, USA. He was formerly a senior producer of TV news documentaries, a radio and TV show host, and a Stand News blogger. He is the author of "Tide Pool," "Tata Bar," "Turbulence," and "Freedom Under Twenty Shadows," an adaptation of his doctoral dissertation. His book "Umbrella Gathering" won the Hong Kong Book Prize and the Hong Kong Golden Reading Award. He once dreamed of traveling the world and fulfilled most of it. After all the platforms where his past articles were published were purged, his current dream is to continue writing and reading. Even if he is confined to Hong Kong, he can still be a time traveler.

Content Introduction:
It should be acceptable to record feelings, discuss daily trivia, and be honest about personal memories. In a new era that is difficult to grasp and understand, a type of "morning text" has emerged in Hong Kong. This "genre" of writing is fragmented, brief, hesitant, wavering between speaking and not speaking; it has no subject, and its details are vague; it portrays scenes, leaving vast blanks for grand narratives; it captures the stardust after the big bang, serving as proof of existence. Au Ka-lun is a Knight Fellow at Stanford University in the USA, and was formerly a senior producer of TV news documentaries, a radio and TV show host, and a Stand News blogger. He is the author of "Tide Pool," "Tata Bar," "Turbulence," and "Freedom Under Twenty Shadows," an adaptation of his doctoral dissertation. His book "Umbrella Gathering" won the Hong Kong Book Prize and the Hong Kong Golden Reading Award. He once dreamed of traveling the world and fulfilled most of it. After all the platforms where his past articles were published were purged, his current dream is to continue writing and reading. Even if he is confined to Hong Kong and his passport is missing, he can still be a time traveler.