Some articles commented: "He is the most comprehensive and in-depth thinking on philosophical issues among Chinese writers..." There is no doubt that Shi Tiesheng's life course and literary works have vividly explained how deep and broad life as an individual really is.
Those familiar works- "Me and the Temple of Earth", "Notes on Retreat", "Broken Pen of the Sick Gap", etc. all profoundly show the greatness of life and thoroughly express the helplessness of fate. Romain Rolland once said: There is only one kind of heroism in the world, that is, to see the truth of life and still love life. Stetson is the perfect interpreter.
Even though life is tormented in every way, seeking the meaning and direction of life, it always emits endless light in him.
This reminds me of the philosopher Schopenhauer's proposition that suffering is the essence of man. In the eyes of the experiencer, life is constantly struggling in pain. Some people choose to end everything for this reason, and some people are helpless, but Shi Tiesheng has infected countless people with reality, and he has experienced the gains and losses of this world with his life.
Reflections on suffering are the theme of many of Stetson's works.
Perhaps, for Stetson's life, what he saw was different from what we imagined. What he saw was not his own physical torture, but a constant quest and questioning of suffering.
In Stetson, suffering did not make him submit, but made him see the soul clearly. The wheelchair is his world, and the mind is his weapon.