" Perhaps my fellow humans whom the dream of life has ensnared may find in this tale an echo, may be summoned back by it to their true home; while free spirits of the high hills may find in the record of Brother Stone’s transformations, as in that older tale of the Migration of the Magic Mountain, a reflected light to quicken their own aspirations. "

― Cao Xueqin , The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 5: The Dreamer Wakes