Chapter 005: Rashomon
With his hands on the keyboard and in the middle of the blank word page header is Takeshita Kusaoke, who has typed the three titles of "Rashomon", and the reason why he chose it as his debut is that he likes this short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa the most, and it is also one of the representative works of the other party. After pressing the enter button, he began to devote himself wholeheartedly, silently writing out the content of the whole story word by word.
For "Rashomon", a short story that is very familiar with Takeshita Grass Mustard, there is no difficulty in writing it word for word. There are not many words in it, and there are only two main characters who appear, and the creation of the environment in the book is full of a bit of eerie atmosphere.
The theme and tone of this short story are based on the fact that everything such as good, evil, fiction, and reality is absolutized and isolated, and people are also alienated and strange from each other, and they cannot see the sincerity of any human nature. It describes the whole process of an ordinary person's degeneration driven by egoism. The psychological changes of the low-ranking samurai who are unemployed are carried out from beginning to end.
The whole story begins with an unemployed low-ranking samurai hiding from the rain in a ruined temple. In this short period of time, he was penniless and repeatedly entangled and struggling in his heart, should he become a robber when he fell to the ground? Just when he was struggling to make a final choice, he happened to meet an old woman who plucked the hair of the dead in the ruined temple for a living.
The ragged old woman told him about the past of the dead young woman she had pulled out her hair. Young women used to sell dried snake meat as dried fish. Those who ate this "dried fish" found it delicious, so that the woman could make ends meet. The old woman felt that although the young woman had used deception, she had done nothing wrong, after all, she was just like herself, all for survival.
As a result, the low-level samurai suddenly realized that since people are trying to survive, what else can they not do? None of this is about moral immorality or bad conscience. Got rid of the last spiritual shackles and shackles, and finally made up his mind to be a robber, in order to survive is to abandon good and follow evil, he stripped the old woman of a fine light, snatched her clothes and fled, and no one has seen him since then, and this is the end and the end.
After the dictation was completed, Takeshita first moved the cursor on the screen to the upper left corner, clicked on the saved small icon, and then stared at the computer screen intently, repeatedly checking whether there were any typos in it. Although I can write word for word, I can't guarantee that every word I type is 100% correct.
As a pink and tender rookie writer, Takeshita Kusaoji understands very well that typos can make a bad first impression on the editor. So, once he finds a typo, he will correct it as soon as possible. It wasn't until he was satisfied and accurate that he emailed the short story of "Rashomon" to an editor in the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House who he had submitted.
When it was done, the Takeshita grass mustard stretched out a big lazy waist when he stretched out his arms, and let out a series of very comfortable "ah" sounds. Beforehand, he really didn't expect that the work of Wen Copying Gong was not so simple and easy. Standing up, he looked around at his unformed pig's nest, and he really couldn't look at it. At the moment, he had nothing to do, so he rolled up his left and right sleeves and tidied up his room by himself.
While tidying up the house, the mood is revealed to be read or less apprehensive Takeshita grass mustard, since there is no complete certainty that the editor can favor the short story "Rashomon". For one, it was originally published in 1905, and it has been 110 years since then; Second, the current popular style of writing, readers' preferences...... Naturally, it won't be the same as it was more than a century ago; Third, each editor has a style preference, and does it cater to the other's tastes?
Just like the predecessor of the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House, the founder Kikuchi was tired of writing to adapt to the preferences of publishers and editors, and claimed that "I want to write my own words", so he gathered more than 20 fandoms and founded the magazine "Literary Spring and Autumn", advertising "pure literature", so as to achieve success.
The current Takeshita grass mustard can't manage so much. I don't bother at all about whether he is engaged in pure literature or commercial literature, after all, belly literature is the primary problem that he urgently needs to solve. There will be no mental restraints, he will not be unable to wipe his face, he will not play high, he will get money, and the more the merrier.
It took more than half an hour to tidy up the grass mustard under Takeshita in his room, walked to the window, and opened the closed window. The breeze blowing from outside really made him enjoy it. He couldn't help but close his eyes, raised his head slightly, greeted the direction of the wind, and then made a sound of "um".
The weather was good, the sun was soft, and I sat on the windowsill, first glanced at the house opposite, and then looked down at the narrow street where people were sparsely populated. At such a time period, everyone is busy with their own things. Either busy making money to survive, or busy making money in order to survive. Whether it's a Japanese person or a person from that country, this is how you spend your life.
Basically, Takeshita Grass Mustard, who has accepted this established fact, has never thought that when he has money, he will go back to his hometown in China to take a walk, take a look, and return to his hometown in all directions. In the past, I was an orphan who came out of a welfare home. He regards books as his only friend, but he doesn't have anyone worthy of his own friends, his psychology is still healthy, and his life is still positive, so he will not have any suicidal tendencies.
Takeshita Kusaoke, who has made a decision, is not only to continue to live in this relatively unfamiliar environment, but also to live better and more brilliantly. He won't be idle, even if he wants to, he doesn't have such conditions. What's more, I still understand a simple truth, not that work needs people, but that people need work. Otherwise, you will feel that there is too much time, and it will be very boring and difficult to pass the time...... In addition to eating, drinking, and sleeping, he still eats, drinks, and sleeps. If this is the kind of life, then isn't it too boring?