And the water is water, don't these two people know how to change a serious chat software?

That's how you use memos?

"I accidentally chatted and didn't remember it......," Guan Li's expression naturally changed the topic, "Did you give the book to Wen Wei in the past?"

"It's already been sent. "The system knows a lot about him," I've put together another version on your desktop, including Lovecraft's original work and other people's overviews and interpretations of them, the latter of which you should be interested in. ”

"You really understand me, and I will definitely be a good secretary in the future. "Guan Li's praise is absolutely sincere.

The system does not want to respond to this compliment for the time being, and it shows its attitude with forceful silence.

However, Guan Li didn't care about its attitude, Guan Li only had folders on the desktop.

Oh, and there's a netizen who is just baking it hot.

Of course, now you can let this netizen cool off.

Wen Shen has to choose the content and direction of writing, and the overview given by Guan Li is not enough at all, and it can only be determined after reading the real "Cthulhu Mythos".

- that is, Lovecraft's mythological system, which has not yet been sorted out and expanded by Dresser.

The "Cthulhu Mythos" system at this stage was entirely dominated by Lovecraft himself.

But the great author does not seem to intend to create a canonical and accessible myth, he simply wanted to write a series of "collections" that express the insignificance of humanity and the indifference of the universe.

The worlds in those stories do not have a static framework, but simply shine around the eternal depth of nature.

As the famous scholar of Locke literature S· T. Josie puts it: "The essence of myth does not lie in the pantheon of imaginary gods, nor in the cobwebbed knowledge of lost books, but in some convincing cosmology." ”

Lovecraft was still alive at the time and was not shy about sharing his ideas with other writers of his time, many of the most important series of works in the Cthulhu Mythos system.

Most of them have their own ideas and ideas, and their styles are different, but their works all maintain an "inner unity" of spiritual core.

This can be regarded as a "joint creation" between the famous writers of that era, who together constructed that hazy and charming mysterious world.

In this world, "the cruelty of the universe to human indifference" is the only criterion.

With the death of Lovecraft himself, the writing trend started by him gradually declined due to the loss of its leader.

Until Dresser, who inherited his copyright, reset the second phase of the Cthulhu Mythos - Dress's "myth" - is also the set that most people have heard of: the outer gods, the old gods, the old rulers.

When Dressers opened up the rights to Cthulhu, various re-creation systems and cross-platform adaptations fermented again and again, making the culture more diverse.

Finally, the "Cthulhu Mythos" as it became known was a far cry from the original.

The only constant is the spirit revealed in Lovecraft's pen – a spirit known as "Fundamentalist Cthulhu".

No matter how the style and type change, the position of fundamentalism cannot be shaken.

It is the beginning, it is the foundation, it is the primordial spiritual light.

With the speed cultivated in the age of online reading, it didn't take much time for Guan Li to read through the content.

Many of these books were the ones he had read before, so he focused on the various interpretations that followed.

Wen Shen, who had not been in contact with Cthulhu before, was slightly slower.

After Guan Li finished watching all the new episodes of this quarter, and even began to brag to Ye Lingxing about the animation he was optimistic about, he finally sent a new message.

This time it wasn't sent with a memo, it was a serious chat software.

Divine Will: "Tell me what you think." ”

Wen Weifu: "It is worthy of being an author with cross-era influence in another world, which is even more terrifying than I thought. ”

Strictly speaking, Lovecraft's writing did not have much advantage over many of his contemporaries.

It's not that the writing is bad, but it's not good enough to be brought up as a highlight.

The scariest thing about this author is the control of the atmosphere rendering.

Few creators have been able to delicately trap the treacherous and secretive story in the boundary between reality and fantasy like Lovecraft.

An obscure and vague atmosphere runs through the lines, and the evidence that has been crumpled and stuffed into the book seems to exist in the cracks of history.

As the layers of fear deepen, you can see the irresistible and incomprehensible ultimate mystery.

"I can't write this kind of text. Wen Weifu bluntly admitted, "It can be imitated, but it can't reach the height of the original." ”

The style he excels at can be said to be the opposite.

It should be noted that Wen Shen is the author of the online article.

Regardless of what the outside world says about him, he is very clear about his position.

He is an online writer, an author who is very "characteristic of the Internet age".

Online writers can write complicated writing, have complex backgrounds, and even add all kinds of unpopular knowledge to the article.

But more importantly –

Make it understandable to all readers.

The characters should be clear enough, the motives should be simple enough, and the story should be clear enough.

The wider the audience, the more so it is.

Wen Shenhe consciously catered to the market, and constantly moved closer to this style until his habitual style was established.

As for blurring the focus of the plot and relying purely on atmospheric rendering to attract readers?

Destined to be just a niche preference.

It's not that he can't write, of course he can, and there is also the capital to bear the negative impact that the "non-mainstream style" will come.

But, is it necessary?

There is no doubt that Lovecraft's Cthulhu is the heart of the system, but it is not the only one. "Later Cthulhu culture has been very different from fundamentalism and still has a large audience. ”

Without the initial foundation, there would be no later development.

This is the natural law of cultural evolution, and there is no such thing as an idea that can be born out of thin air.

And with Cthulhu's original depth in hand, it is no longer "out of thin air" to conceive a world.

He is just another possibility of interpreting his own interpretation on the basis of Lovecraft.

"It's not advisable to imitate it, it's better to use my own words to tell the common core of Cthulhu, what do you think?" he said.

"As long as you can write it. ”

What reasons does Kwan Li have for disagreeing?

This is exactly the purpose of his search for Wen Weifu.

The popularity of the work is up to date, and no one can guarantee that Lovecraft's style is suitable for the times?

Maybe it's not adaptable?

Guan Li doesn't just need a poor imitation of the ideas of the original, what he wants is the rebirth of the Cthulhu Mythos in modern times!

"So...... The gods called truth, fear and the nature of the world, modern nihilism. "Wen Shen habitually extracts the key words of his works, and at the same time, he thinks that he must write them into his own book," and the laws of ordinary human beings. ”

All stories are based on this law.

Extremely ordinary, even if the struggle for a lifetime is meaningless to the universe, insignificant......

Mankind.

Explorers.

Weak life.

The protagonist of the story.

"All plots start with a curiosity that is so ordinary that it shouldn't exist. He suddenly knew how to begin.

At the same time, I also thought of the corresponding ending.