He remembered once seeing a gauze kerchief blowing in the wind and now he sensed the future as though it twisted across some surface as undulant and impermanent as that of the windblown kerchief.

他记得曾经看到一条纱布头巾在风中飘扬，现在他感觉到未来就像在某个表面上扭曲一样，就像风吹过的头巾一样起伏不定。