紅樓

The last regret in life, according to Eileen Chang, is: The Dream of the Red Chamber remains unfinished (紅樓未完).

But, isn't it exactly the reason that we still keep talking on the possible fate of Jia Baoyu (賈寶玉) and the Twelve Beauties of Ginling (金陵十二釵) ?

And, look, the very feature that makes this classic of Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹) immortal is not that the novel continues on and on without an end (like some local comics) - it has, but the story has not been completed.

That gives us everything for imagination.

For a similar reason, The Castle of Franz Kafka remains a classic - the novel is not only incomplete, it breaks off in the middle of a sentence.

If our German existentialist told you the whole mystery of Count Westwest, where should we use our power of imagination ?

As the old Chinese sayings: 朝聞道, 夕死可矣.