A Trilogy of Flows (Part One): 謬誤三部曲（上冊：《敗貓浮生》、《謬誤聖經》）

By Xiang-Hua Lin and 林湘華

「謬誤三部曲」全書，分上下兩冊，上冊是《敗貓浮生》和《謬誤聖經》；下冊是《時光之舟》和《背光行走的人》

這部「三部曲」小說共含四冊：
[一]《敗貓浮生》
[二]《時光之舟》
[三]《背光行走的人》
[附書]《謬誤聖經》
故事從一隻貓咪尋求溝通的念力實驗開始，
當牠荒誕錯謬的練習逐漸與書呆怪人一般的主人交互「影響」之後﹍﹍
揭開了一段由《謬誤聖經》這部神祕經典跨世繫聯起來的──
從數百年前北海蒼茫海霧中來自易北河口的孤獨的海上騎士；
到上個世代一對漂泊異鄉的亂世鴛鴦；
到當前一個惓惓「善用」無所用心之學，和荒誕之貓與悠游於天地間之純真謬思物類，共習於日常之悅

• Language: English
• Publisher: EHGBooks
• Release date: Jan 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781625039071

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[Excerpt](/English)

[I] The Floating Life of a Losing Cat

§§ A Cat’s Existence

Alas! There are losing dogs in this world, and then there are losing cats, too. However, it is harder being a losing cat than a losing dog. A losing cat as a loser is like a flaw as a fault. It originates from the nature of things, outmatching devices, and assimilate into symbols". Cats do it and the heaven makes it accomplished. The heaven always makes success as if to lose, and turns the useless into the extraordinary. Therefore, the insight of taking the losing cat as a loser is very precious and significant. ¹

---------For Existence

§ The Birth of the Cat

Once upon a time, there was a cat called Psyche…

It’s me! All right, it is somehow a plain, old-fashioned opening that does not match my prominent family background and my extraordinary life experiences. Fortunately, the thoughts of cats could always adjust, lyricize, cleanse, and make peace in such earthly matters. ² Oh, I am not talking about playing the instruments to make music, but about us pets, the humanoid, who were born in thousands and millions of households, raised in the hands of earthly men and women, often keeping marvelous ideas and novel thoughts in our minds, lingering around the absurd and mysterious circumstances like life is a illusory dream like beautiful butterflies in Zhuangzi’s reverie; the emperor Wang’s melancholy incarnated in the air of a cuckoo sighing for the spring under the influence of owners. Therefore, it was not surprising to have such ridiculous behaviors of creating reversed time and misplacing the order of things.

﹍﹍ Let’s talk about my extraordinary life experiences first…

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I had been living with my old owner as long as I could remember.

My owner, as mentioned earlier, was a bookworm who sat in front of the computer all day long doing nothing.

The so-called bookworm was a creature worthless to others and useless to herself in the human society, crying it’s implausible to spend the limited life time without doing worthless things… all the time. It seemed all she could do is--

besides eating rice and other precious food shared with the cat, munching the northwestern wind like munching the crabs all day long and devouring various products of wild imagination, cocoon traps, and misfortune from the talents except for the good fortune in front of the desk and computer, on the couch, by the pillow, at the dinner table, on the carpet (torn by the cat), and under the ramshackle bookshelves, which led to the lack of knowledge of earthly matters, seeing Adu (money), the most useful thing in human society as the untouchable clouds, not realizing she is getting old very soon...³

There was a weeping story in the legend regarding my origins:

"Here stood a small park since the ancient time. There was a little castle, a little pond,