Chapter 205: Defining New Oddities
"What are you going to do now?" the system routinely asked.
"It's not a big problem. "Guan Li is brainwashing...... No, he has a lot of experience selling Amway, "just stuff him with some more information." ”
The system doesn't speak, and it doesn't want to be slapped in the face, just watch what he does next.
God's will: "You don't really believe it, do you?"
Wen Weifu: "Do you say ......?"
Divine Will: "I just fooled you." ”
Wen Shen's train of thought galloping in the sea of stars was immediately interrupted, and he was silent for a while, resisting the urge to delete his friends, and sent a space.
What about playing with him?
Divine Will: "But it's not in vain, you see, the tangled things are very clear now." ”
Wen did not reply: "This does not constitute a reason for me to forgive you. ”
Divine Will: "If there is a series of works that happen to match what you just thought...... Can you forgive me?"
Wen Shen immediately sat up straight and typed out three words: "What about the works?"
Divine will: "Let's talk about it later." ”
"......" has also learned to coerce and lure? Is he a person who will be lured by this kind of thing?
Well, he's really.
Wen Weifu: "Tell me what you want to say." ”
"First, analyze your thoughts. Guan Li began with a long speech, "The 'anomaly and the miracle' in the title of the book, that is, the two directions you can choose. ”
The word "abnormal" has a strong anthropocentric tendency, because "normal" is a self-imposed definition by human beings.
And "miracles" are transhumanistic, sacred things that are above human beings and have a sense of sublimity.
Most people don't care about the subtleties of the implications of these words, but the best creators often instinctively choose the one that's more suitable.
Just like the difference between "supernatural" and "supernatural", the emotional overtones attached to these two words are similar but completely different.
"Supernatural" is more inclined to ordinary people, emphasizing an abnormal heterogeneity and exclusion, while "supernatural" naturally carries the superiority of the mortal world, believing that transcendence is superiority.
Therefore, from the perspective of ordinary human beings, it is more suitable for "supernatural", and there are works that have promotion channels that can make the protagonist surpass humans, and will prefer to use "supernatural".
The same goes for "anomalies" and "miracles".
Cthulhu culture began with Lovecraft and has undergone decades of changes, and has been supplemented and modified by countless authors.
Every author's thinking is different.
Nor can it be said who is superior and who is inferior.
Only suitable or not.
To put it bluntly, Wen Shen's preferences are inconsistent with the fundamentalist Cthulhu.
Rather than the darkness and indifference that overflowed with the beginning of Cthulhu, he preferred the worldview that was gradually perfected later, and the reflection of the worldview that resonated with the human heart.
The essence of the myth is to smear the "unknown" on the "known" skin.
So after becoming a myth, Cthulhu's aura of "fear of the unknown" has been weakened by half.
Because it is known, it loses its mystery, and because it is known, it gains to spread.
"You are deeply influenced by the golden age of the last century, and you are good at filling in the soul of the current social ideology within the framework of a strong setting. "You can understand Lovecraft's ideas from the background of his work, and understand the various imagery and landscapes in his writings, but it is difficult to empathize with and make similar assumptions." ”
To put it simply, the experience is different, and the three views are different.
In his eyes, the gods and monsters in the darkness of the universe may be called miracles, but they are more like anomalies.
Guan Li can describe this line of thinking with a more precise concept: "You're better suited to write new weird stories." ”
"New weird talk?" Wen Shen tried to interpret it literally, "different from traditional weird talk, is it more contemporary or what?"
"Almost. ”
The New Strange Tales literature originates from the traditional weird tales represented by Cthulhu, and on the basis of deconstructing and subverting the traditional weird tales, it is written by fantasy authors in the fragmented information age.
The works under this creative concept often create a background that is very close to the real city, allowing the surreal and supernatural to explode in the familiar world.
Based on reality, then transcending reality.
Show the logic, then cut off the logic.
If Cthulhu is using fog to obscure the truth and make the reader fearful, then the new weird story is to show the details directly, but the reader cannot understand it.
It's like the author puts all the principles of Scranton's reality anchor in front of the reader's eyes, but the reader still has difficulty understanding it.
It's self-contained, you just can't read it.
As an emerging revolution in fantasy literary creation, the development of New Strange Tales is still in its infancy.
There are very few literary works in the world that are recognized as neo-weird, and "SCP Foundation" is among them.
Wen Weifu: "That's what you wanted to say before, it's a new weird talk about works." ”
Godwill: "Yes, SCP Foundation, you're going to like it." ”
Wen Weifu: "The SCP you said is the same as the SCP I know...... Is it the same SCP?"
Divine Will: "If you're talking about the SCP in My Midst of Everything, it's the same. ”
Wen Weifu: "So I can open the webpage now and see it." ”
Divine Will: "Hmm. ”
Wen Weifu: "So I can still not forgive you." (Grudge .jpg)"
"I have more than 4,000 projects on my hands. ”
Wen Weifu: "Huh?"
Divine Will: "There are only a thousand updates on the website. ”
Wen Weifu: "You also moved this thing from another world?"
Divine Will: "I'm the legendary Foundation administrator, I'm smiling." ”
The text is not replied: "......"
He opened the official website of the Foundation without giving up, looked at the recent new entries, and sure enough, it was only more than a thousand.
And judging from his experience of skipping through more than a dozen articles, the lower the number, the higher the comprehensive quality of the archive.
Referring to the level of 3999, you can imagine how many unreleased immortal documents there are behind.
So......
"I repented. ”
Guan Li gave the system a "piece of cake" look, and typed calmly, "It's too late to forgive now." ”
Wen Weifu: "No, I regret writing new weird stories, is it okay? I think "SCP Foundation" has a very promising future. ”
The system let out an uncontrollable snort.
Guan Li: "......" Your reaction is a little wrong.
He pressed out a sentence: "What about Cthulhu?"
The text did not reply: "Uh...... If you can't find someone, I can recommend it, I know a lot of authors!"
Divine Will: "I think you want to be beaten!" (the hand with the knife is about to move.jpg)"
Wen Weifu: "Hey, I'm serious, do you want to try?"
God's will: "Code your words to go." ”
Wen Weifu: "This problem has not been solved, what can I code?"
God's will: "Don't think about it so much, the theme is Cthulhu, the style is not limited, and the online article is OK, the point is to show the cold machinery and eternal barbarism of the universe, as well as anti-rational, anti-cognitive, anti-science, anti-human, don't think about the golden spirit all day long, understand?"
Wen Weifu: "Huh?"
God's will: "If you understand, go and write." ”
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