A dragon died by hanging in the sea, and the sea emptied into salt. Dragon, representing an image of absolute power, carried out an absurd hanging with the torture rope. Such is the ultimate tragedy for conquerors: whatever you executed is literally your life foundation.

More than a result, a scene, it’s an ultimate metaphor. Personifying “sea,” the immense nature being, as an executable life, is to conquer and destroy the root of nature. And the salt is how the sea ends. Being forcefully extracted, conquered, and solidified, what’s left is only a pale, granular absolute truth.

Above those crystals lies the lonely dragon; perhaps that is just the dried-up sea in human souls.