Chapter 37: At the Beginning
"Performance art?" Lilac looked at Wen Xun suspiciously, and after thinking about it, she replied, "Performance art, to put it mildly, it is an act of opposing the continuation of art to make money." For example, a pair of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" can sell for millions of dollars, but performance art can't. Therefore, performance art seems to be an act of rebellion against the market......"
Then, Lilac probably explained to Wen Xun what performance art is. However, when Wen Xun listened to the general explanation of the direction, he really felt that he was really not suitable to write about performance art. Mainly, he felt that he didn't have any artistic cells himself, and that he and the artists with long hair and beards were people of two different planets.
Moreover, when he heard Lilac say that it seemed that performance art was becoming more and more easily associated with gore and pornography these days, he was even less interested in using it as the subject of the New Language Essay Contest. After all, he is not a city child, nor is he an artistic genius, so there is no need to use his weaknesses to compare his weaknesses with the advantages of others.
After asking Lilac, in the face of her doubts, Wen Xun probably explained what "performance art" he heard from other classmates, but he was too embarrassed to ask his classmates, so he came to ask her secretly. As soon as this explanation came out, it immediately stimulated Lilac's maternal feelings, and immediately dispelled her curiosity.
After returning home, Wen Xun began to prepare to write his own articles. He first thought about the plot of the story, and then planned to arrange two characters in the short story at the beginning of this article. Maybe he was used to it when he wrote "Snowflake Secret Fan" last time, and he was still going to arrange a character in the story who had a similar background and a similar personality to the protagonist, but in the end took a different life path because of different choices.
Wen Xun felt that in this way, the importance of choice could be vividly compared through the difference in the final fate of the two. Highlight the importance of the protagonist "going off the beaten path". In this way, Wen Xun can hide what he wants to express in the story and show it to the reader, and then let the reader find that he is different from those peers who talk in the vernacular throughout......
Soon, in almost a thousand words, Wen Xun wrote the first story. Then, without commenting, he moved on to the second story. The second story is the experience of Livy-Strauss in history. This story is told very quickly, Wen Xun basically doesn't need to think or design, and it took a thousand words to finish this story.
And then at last he was going to talk a little bit in a thousand more words. Although he wants to be different from others and use this to attract the attention of the professors, this kind of article must have some argumentative content. Wen Xun is going to summarize the two people in the story in the content of the discussion, and then extract the core points of the "unusual path" in the two stories, and then extend them to this new language thinking essay contest......
Soon, Wen Xun wrote the first draft in three strokes and five divided by two. Maybe it's because he revised "Snowflake Secret Fan" a lot last time, Wen Xun even consciously began to use narratology to stay away this time even when designing the plot. In this way, after Wen Xun is basically written, there is basically no need to make too many major revisions.
When the article was written, Wen Xun corrected the typo a little, and prepared to wait for sleep slowly. When you enter the dream, you will find Lan Yang or someone else to help you read the manuscript. But what he didn't know was that at this time, in a small three-story French-style building on Julu Road in Jing'an District, Songjiang, there was a person who was watching his "Snowflake Secret Fan" repeatedly.
The man was wearing glasses with the bottom of a beer bottle. His name is Luo Hongbo, and he is the editor-in-chief of New Youth magazine. In the past, the preliminary review of the "New Language Thinking" essay contest was reviewed by professors from ten famous universities that he organized. The final shortlist was also discussed by him and the professors.
In fact, when preparing the shortlist, exactly half of the professors from the ten prestigious universities opposed the inclusion of Wen Xun's name on the list. Because according to the five professors, Wen Xun's article was written with the help of an adult.
Because although this article has almost just reached the professional level, this level is already too powerful for ordinary middle school students! Originally, middle school students didn't have much contact with society, so they rarely found materials that were very bright. But Wen Xun found it! His choice of this theme can be said to be very good, and it basically has the level of a professional!
At the same time, because middle school students have not had much contact with society, it is very easy to talk about some fake big empty theories when writing articles, saying some fake big empty theories that I don't know where I heard them. But Wen Xun didn't do this, he passed the story very maturely and professionally, and through the changes in the fate of the characters in the play, he half-concealed what he wanted to say - this kind of consciousness can be said to be one in a million among the middle school students who participated in the competition!
Moreover, Wen Xun also chose the theme of "The Alienation of People by War", and introduced a peep in the tube through a very attractive "female language", looking at the state of the whole society from the perspective of four people. Not to mention whether this kind of ambition should be something that middle school students should have, but seeing Wen Xun's extremely old-fashioned writing among middle school students, and Wen Xun's good grasp of narratology theory, all of this does not look like it was written by middle school students.
Yes, what Wen Xun wrote, on the contrary, was because the quality was too good, but he almost did not enter the semi-final list. In the end, Luo Hongbo stood up and temporarily determined that Wen Xun had this ability based on the principle of "no suspicion of guilt", so he added Wen Xun's name to the list of the rematch.
Looking at the manuscript in his hand, Luo Hongbo thought to himself that if he heard the news in the examination room of the semi-finals, he really showed his "talented" literary genius. Then Luo Hongbo will definitely invite Wen Xun to lengthen "The Secret Fan of Snowflakes" and publish it in "New Youth"!
Luo Hongbo could see that in the manuscript of the news, it was because of the word limit that he could not write the story in detail and perfectly. In many places, Luo Hongtao saw it very clearly, and some places that could be described in detail, Wen Xun did not describe them in detail at all.
Therefore, Luo Hongbo feels that such a "Snowflake Secret Fan" is not a "complete" body at all! should let Wen Xun let go of his hands and feet and write the whole story completely. In this way, the story must have strengthened the fame of New Youth magazine to a certain extent......
If Wen Xun knew that he almost couldn't enter the semi-finals because he wrote too well, he would probably be angry to death! Where is there something that is too well written, but it can't pass the test! He could have done not so much to modify it in the first place! In the end, he still felt that he had done it without much effort......
However, when Luo Hongbo and others reviewed the manuscript later, they also thanked Wen Xun in their hearts. Because they originally had no way to start the preliminary round of the national audition for cost reasons, and even they didn't expect that there would be a problem for students to find someone to write on their behalf. They originally felt that because the semi-finals would be examined on the spot, it would be no good to pass the preliminary round, and there should be no articles that would attract people's metabolism.
But what they didn't expect was that maybe there were still 2B young people like Zhang Lei in the world who would take advantage of loopholes at any time......
When Luo Hongbo finished working overtime and walked home to Luther, Wen Xun had already fallen asleep in a daze. He passed Lan Yang's "review" almost once in his dream, which made Wen Xun feel very surprised, because this rematch seemed to be much easier than the last preliminary round......
After Lan Yang's "review", Wen Xun didn't plan to change his article anymore, he just flipped through it every day, corrected the typo, and slowly changed the words.
Soon, a week passed, and the train tickets for Wen Xun and others who were going to Songjiang to participate in the semi-finals came......