核心概念：「文化之死」

故事主人翁劉教授自困於書房五年，他的心結源自一宗意外：五年前他希望把研究成果出版，但出版社以「沒有市場」為由拒絕。教授意氣難平，痛罵了編輯一番後編輯卻意外地被塌下來的書砸死了，教授愧疚不已。

主舞台裝置的大量碎紙條及書本，象徵傳媒控制大眾品味的社會建制，惡性循環地製造一堆堆垃圾文字和書籍的靡爛現象。

高聳像雷峰塔困白蛇的書架，塑造主人翁一直深感內疚抑壓的心理狀態，而「逝者如斯乎」的掛鐘和鐘後的碎紙機，則代表文化的受摧毀和知識的重要性被遺忘。

劇場內亦模糊了舞台和觀眾席的空間定位，讓裝置圍繞著眾人，意味著觀眾進入了教授的書房，也是他具矛盾撕裂性的心理空間。同時觀眾席的椅子全被收起，取而代之的是矮如石頭的一箱箱書，邀請觀眾抽離反思：在消費主義澎湃和市場主導的情況下，人們怎樣才能捍衛「有義意的文化傳承」的問題。

Core Concept: The death of culture

The protagonist, Professor Lau, traps himself in his own study for 5 years, feeling traumatized by an accident: five years ago, Professor Lau wished to publish his research results, but he got bluntly rejected by the editor with the reason "No market!". Bursting with anger, Professor Lau raved at the editor, who was then accidentally killed by piles of fallen books. Professor Lau feels endless guilt because of the accident.

The huge amount of shredded paper and books on the centre stage symbolizes the social institutions in which the mass media controls the taste of the general public, creating a vicious cycle and pathetic phenomenon of generating trashy writing and printed materials.

The oppressively tall bookshelf gives a shape to the psychological state of endless guilt that the protagonist lives in. The hanging clock and the paper shredding machine give a sense of “time is like a river”, representing the destruction of culture and the forgotten significance of knowledge.

The boundary between the stage and the auditorium is blurred, allowing the spectators to be surrounded by the installation, suggesting that the spectators have entered the professor's study, which is also his torn and conflicting mental space. In the auditorium, all the seats have been removed, and replaced by boxes of books which are arranged like large river cobbles, inviting the audience to keep an aesthetic distance with the performance and to reflect on "How can people defend the meaningful inheritance of culture under the overwhelming mentality of consumerism and market-oriented economy ?"