“There’s a big diff erence between a city and a village. The best thing about a city is, you can buy anything you can think of, anything in all shapes and sizes, anything from all over the world. Anything but not anything you want, like you cannot buy the nostalgic taste in your memory. Even the horrible taste of the soap noodles was unique. Wasn’t it?”
It sounded oddly contradictory. It sounded like an insightful monologue inspired by his boredom. It sounded as if he really mocked this world against his world.