 In the form of short essays, Zhou expresses his thoughts on 26 broad topics, including life, nature, love, beauty and death.In "Men and Eternity", Zhou generally expresses the idea of contradiction by nature of these topics and the impossibility of their reconciliation.He points out the contradictions between mankind’s greatness as the only species possesses the ability to pursue the meaning of life and how the process itself degrades the meaning they are pursued, which leads to a nihilistic belief that the human race is a meaningless product of the meaning less universe, making meaningless effort to pursue meanings in its meaningless creator.