Chapter Thirty-Nine: Literature Is Dead, Original Science and Technology Are at an End
"Damn, this is gone?" At half past ten o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, Chen Hong hurried down the teaching building and rushed to the bookstore next to the cafeteria. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
It's a pity that his classroom is still too far away from the bookstore compared to the others, although he saw the "Xitang Wenhua" in the hands of the passing students, and looked forward to not selling out and not selling out, but when he arrived, he found that it was still gone...
"Only twenty copies!" The little girl who bought the book smiled.
"How can you get in so little? There are 5,000 people in our school, so we have to get 3,000 books! Chen Hong was quite unhappy.
"There are definitely 3,000 simulated in the five-year college entrance examination and three years, do you want it!" The bookstore girl asked him.
Chen Hong was speechless: "I bought a set when school started..."
But in the end, he still left the money and the student number, and came back to get it when the bookstore arrived.
On the way, he bought two loaves of bread and returned to the classroom dejectedly.
"I didn't buy it..."Chen Hong sighed and said to his classmates: "Usually ten copies can't be sold, but this time twenty copies are not enough!" ā
The classmate nodded: "It's a pity, this issue of the Scarlet Cross will have to be seen a few days later..."The classmate turned his head, and was suddenly stunned: "Mu Shichen, what are you holding in your hand?" ā
Mu Shichen's hand shook, and he almost threw out the "Xitang Literary Painting" in his hand.
"You actually read comics?" Chen Hong came up in surprise.
Mu Shichen is definitely the kind of person in the class who can be ignored directly by the teacher when he looks around, and I haven't heard that he has any special hobbies?
And, he was obviously the first to rush out of the classroom just now, why does he have it in his hands...
Mu Shichen watched the two take the book away, and whispered: "Return me after reading it...", I don't know if the two heard it.
This is a sample issue sent to him by the magazine, and it has been sent for two days, except for eating, he has almost always held it in his arms, and he has read all the contents of it no less than three times, of course, including his own "Stream, Green Lotus".
"The world has written all the feelings and painted the first love, but it is the first time I have seen it to portray the feelings of a shy teenager to a girl so vividly with such delicate brushstrokes! It tells a love story, but it is an unexpressed feeling, which is sentimental and evocative..."This is the comment that Xia Xiaojuan wrote to him, and gave this "Stream, Green Lotus" a score of 73, passing or above, good but not full.
Because in addition to the advantages, the disadvantages are also extremely obvious, because although the composition is very good, but this is a comic rather than freehand, and the storyboard that should be there must be.
And maybe it's because Mu Shichen is too young and inexperienced, what he reacts to on the drawing paper is that the characters are simple, the expression is stiff, and the background is all kinds of unrealistic, such as the flag and the leaves are blown in different directions... It's the lines, because Mu Shichen is of this age, but he doesn't have to be picky.
Mu Shichen was only glad that he didn't use his real name, but gave him a pen name, after all, seeing that sample magazine was circulated in the hands of his classmates, and his works could also be seen by everyone, he had a very contradictory feeling, he wanted everyone to know that this person was himself, but also wanted to hide it inexplicably.
Some people are happy and some are worried, and Mu Yuan looked at the rejection letter in his hand, full of sadness in his heart.
Look at the reason for rejection again: "As an editor, I like this work very much.,But as a public magazine.,I think parents don't like to see their children reading this kind of comic.,I hope the master will let your characters wear more clothes.,After all, it's almost autumn.,It's not good to show so much..."
This reason is really... The rejected Mu Yuan actually has a sense of relief that he has found a confidant...
But he also painted a lot in the book.,I couldn't help it when I wanted to draw serious so suddenly...
Guanyinqiao Picasso was also rejected, and the reason was simple: "The plot is too thin..."After all, there are three or five sketches where the dialogue is written, and if your dialogue can create the atmosphere of "This Man is from Earth", it is not impossible...
But her sketch lines are as follows:
"I came to Hebei Province..."
"The Question of the Dry Sutra..."
"Grab money to buy vigor..."
"It's really yellow and violent..."
The editor said that he could not understand it and resolutely rejected the manuscript.
Picasso thought that as long as he could participate, he would not win the first place in minutes with the number of his fans?
However, now that I haven't passed the preliminary round, I'm also sad...
"No, I don't believe it yet!" The girl flicked her braids: "Isn't it just a comic, I'll draw it for you in minutes!" ā
In the end, the results of Xitang's literary painting were gratifying, and the first edition of 50,000 copies was actually snatched up by readers all over the country... Although it is said that 50 pages were printed without a price increase, this kind of sales is really refreshing for the editorial department.
Li Shitang slapped the table and printed another 100,000!
After all, there are more than 40,000 online orders alone, and the sales of science fiction paintings are hovering between 15~200,000, and the printing volume of 150,000 is not too outrageous.
The sales of Xitang literature are bleak, not to mention that it is a new publication, people probably flipped through it, it is either poetry or prose, what is the use of buying this kind of book back except for pretending to be forced and beating his son? In the end, Li Shitang was ruthless, except for some of the files in various university libraries, the rest were all donated to the mountainous areas...
Isn't education to start with a baby?
Even if children in mountainous areas have teachers and resources, they still can't catch up with children in mathematics, physics and chemistry, and the gap between them and urban children is a real problem.
But literature is different, on the contrary, the more you experience, the more flavorful the words.
Li Shitang feels that after these children have studied Xitang for ten years, when they go to high school and college, they will find that maybe their hands-on ability, thinking ability, and learning ability are not as good as others, but they can export chapters and wonderful words!
Xitang science fiction old authors, old readers, nothing has changed. However, because of the name change, the sales have dropped a lot, but Li Shitang doesn't care, because the direction of science fiction is very strange now, and he always has a feeling that Xing Xinyi and Liu Cixin have written science fiction texts. Until now, it is difficult to have a work that makes him feel bright, as for why he kept it, it may be the cause and effect from the predecessor, and he has to memorize it for a while.
"Future" is the most embarrassing one, in the past, the new attitude of science and technology was fine, and it could be sold to some technology companies, but now "Future", go to the street and give it away to everyone who doesn't want it!
The biggest buyers were the authors of the papers, and when they got the samples, they would pay for a few more copies and send them to relatives and friends. Although the root cause is to show off, but those who can write this kind of paper, relatives, friends and colleagues are mostly similar to their professions, either professors or scientific researchers, which can be regarded as promotion in disguise!
At noon on Thursday, the senior management of Xitang, who got the data, sat in the conference room again.
"Literature is not valued nowadays, and this is also a helpless thing, even if Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize, and Liu Cixin, who won the Hugo Award, their books have not sold much...," said an editor.
Li Shitang also nodded, the Nobel Prize has always greatly increased the sales of a literary work, in fact, Mo Yan's book sales are really good, 199 times higher than before he won the award... But because the previous base was too small, after this 199 times, he was still defeated by Guo Jingming, nine knives, and the third uncle of the southern faction...
Can you say that "Small Times 3.0 Piercing Gold Age" is better written than "Frog"? The latter won the Nobel Prize for Literature! It's a pity that it can't be sold, and it still can't be sold!
"Ordinary people are indeed not very interested in scientific papers..."Chen Xiangsheng said: "Even if the magazines like Nature and Science sell only 30,000 or 40,000 copies in the world..."
Well, the sales of "Future" are three or four hundred...
"Let's get the comics done first..."Li Shitang looked at Wang Yue, although Wang Yue was already delegating power, he was still the head of the comics department at this time.
Wang Yue nodded.
Li Shitang thought for a while: "I have a few poems, you can help see if they can be published... If the sales volume is low, it will be low, but the standard cannot be lowered! ā
Wang Yue continued to nod.
"In the case of "Future", at least let the professors of colleges and universities across the country have a copy... Expand the students, the Academy of Sciences, research institutes all over the world, is it not a problem to sell 100,000 copies? Li Shitang said again.
Chen Xiangsheng was speechless, and he didn't buy 100,000 copies of the new gesture of science and technology!
"As long as the content is authoritative enough, as long as it can be valued, someone will naturally buy it! If the scope of the manuscript is requested, it can be transferred to the world..."He is worried about the trend of plagiarism papers in China, in case he receives a plagiarized paper, and he doesn't see it...
Chen Xiangsheng always felt that this president was not targeting himself, and he also went to foreign countries to ask for drafts...
Well, I have occasional business trips, what Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, or friends...
"However, when this kind of scientific paper is translated, if you are not a professional, it is inevitable that the words will not reach the meaning," Chen Xiangsheng said.
Li Shitang waved his hand: "It's okay, as long as the manuscript is sent over, I will translate it for you!" ā
Chen Xiangsheng nodded helplessly, what else could he say...
Look at him up Zhu Lou, watch him feast guests, watch his building collapse...
This is his attitude towards Li Shitang, although so far he has no intention of repenting.