Hotian

"In the Chinese language, when we say, qian, "ten" that's the day before yesterday. The word, qian, means "in front of, or before." So yesterday lies in front of us. When you say hotian, that is the day after tomorrow; ho means behind us. So the future is behind us. To the Chinese mind, the future is behind s, the past is in front of us. We are backing up, blind, into the future. Which is true. Now, to the Western mind, the future is all before, so you leave the past behind. I think that's backward, because what you're lookin at is in front of your eyes, is actually, literally, the past. All of this... the tape... everything ... is going into the past, as we speak. Three billion cells a minute, as we speak, at that rate. So all of this is going away, and we're just falling into the dark"

-li young lee