Shangri La

She finally let all the secret leads to Shangri La slip down into the blackening abyss.

It has been 4 hours since I last looked up from the book. It took a while for my mind to come back to this real world, mostly because it's well past lunch time too.

It properly begins with my last trip to Yunnan Province. The book "Lost Horizon" is promoted in every bookstore.
But, the real motivator is a romantic line in the movie; Robert Conway "You know, when we were on that plane, I was fascinated by the way the shadow followed us. That silly shadow! Racing along over mountains and valleys, covering ten times the distance of the plane, and yet always there to greet us... with outstretched arms when we landed. And I've been thinking that, somehow, you're that plane, and I'm that silly shadow. That all my life I've been rushing up and down hills, leaping rivers, crashing over obstacles, never dreaming that one day that beautiful thing in flight would land on this earth and into my arms."

I feel really bad for those readers who has to wait more than 60 years for the sequel "Shangri la, The return to the world of lost horizon", to answer all the leaves off questions. Mainly, did the man once leave his Shangri la be able to get back?

After all, the movie, the original book and now the sequel leave me the same question again. I only hope I don't need to wonder for another 60 years. Strange creature, I craved for satisfaction of putting fragment pieces together, and closing the series of remaining circles in life.