In the interval of light between the darkness in which you awaited first birth and the darkness of death that would receive you, you must make what you could of reality, which was in a state of highly advanced development.
Charlie Kaufman must have seen this sentence, but as a standard literary youth, he was full of negative energy, so he changed it to:
Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to But it doesn't really.
Wen Qing's role is to offset positive energy into nothingness and despair, so "New York Synonyms" can actually be regarded as Wen Qing's version of "Moving China".
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