The Non-Existing Railroad Sceneries:

Is it landscape or figures paintings on the train? Or the non-existing figures paintings on the train.

Sartre once said: “Nausea is one necessary feeling for a being existing in this world.”

Due to the politics, Taiwanese cannot go to Tibet alone but with tour groups arranged by agencies. I accidentally went with friend’s group few years ago and took the train on Qinghai-Tibet Railway.

This was a journey in China, a journey on railroads hurried and unprepared with nausea.

I love Mount Kailash, the Tibetan spiritual mountain and would love to pay a visit. But I eventually didn’t make it this time. But these three days on the train to Lhasa made me excited and anxious. In this air conditioned space, my body was against air pressure and made me vomited/nauseated. My expectation and excitement have been totally ruined. The physical and mental discomforts made the sceneries outside the window like Chinese paintings. These politically influenced sceneries are so tranquil that it almost feels never existed before.

Maybe one being’s consciousness can be free and unrestrained, but this loathing flesh has to be unwillingly connected with the world and be prisoned from the outside.

It’s the railroad sceneries about politics.