Chapter 137: My Path to Literary Creation
Lin Zixuan stood on the podium and talked eloquently.
"As you may know, I graduated from Columbia University in the United States with a degree in economics." Lin Zixuan recounted, "When I first arrived in the United States, I saw the prosperity and strength of this country, and to be honest, I was lost. ”
In class, he did not shy away from talking about those days in the United States, those times when he had fun and had no pursuit.
This is undoubtedly his black history.
But Lin Zixuan knows that even if he doesn't say it now, as his fame increases, there will be articles such as "Two or Three Things About Me and Lin Zixuan in New York" or "Lin Zixuan in My Memory" in the future.
After all, many international students in New York at that time knew about his bad deeds and could not deny it.
Especially this meeting with Xu Zhimo, recalling the time at that time, Lin Zixuan felt that instead of being dug up in the future, it was better to find an opportunity to confess everything.
If he is an ordinary person, he naturally doesn't care, and he is not a saint, who doesn't have a little stain on his life.
But he's a celebrity, and celebrity privacy has always been a media favorite.
He can smile slightly when he is proud of the spring breeze, and he doesn't have to care, however, once he encounters trouble, those who fall into the well will never let go of exposing his old bottom.
Those people will also triumphantly say that they knew that this guy was not a good person, and that he was a gentleman when he was in New York.
This is the reality of society.
Lin Zixuan himself said it called self-deprecation, daring to criticize himself, and when others said it, it was called smearing, which was an attack with ill intentions.
Of course, he didn't say this black history to be self-critical.
"During my two years in New York, I spent most of my time in a state of confusion, until one day, I encountered an incident in New York's Chinatown." Lin Zixuan said in a deep voice.
Here he invented a story that took place in New York's Chinatown.
The Chinese were teased and beaten by foreigners, but other Chinese dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, he stepped forward to stop it, but was beaten by foreigners.
This kind of thing happens a lot in the United States, and he has seen it, so it is very detailed and true.
"At that moment, I realized that this is not my country." Lin Zixuan said in a deep voice, "It is indeed prosperous and rich here, but the Chinese are excluded here, and the Chinese Exclusion Act promulgated by the United States makes it impossible for Chinese to join the nationality of this country, and they are discriminated against in employment and law." ”
Lin Zixuan talked about the suffering and predicament encountered by Chinese people in the United States with his own personal experience.
"Just a few days ago, a Chinese girl in the United States wrote to me, she likes movies and wants to act in Hollywood, but the image of Chinese people in Hollywood movies is all villains and shameless women, and she is racially discriminated against in Hollywood." Lin Zixuan said indignantly, "This is the strong and prosperous United States. ”
"At that time, I asked myself, why is that?" Lin Zixuan asked himself, "The answer is very simple, because our country is not strong enough, and only when the country is strong, will the Chinese be respected abroad." ”
There was silence under the podium.
No one thought that Lin Zixuan would talk about this, the students listened carefully, and the professors with the background of studying abroad felt the same way, and everyone had encountered the situation of being discriminated against abroad.
"I want to ask you what you are studying?" Lin Zixuan asked suddenly.
The students below exchanged heads and ears, some said loudly that it was to understand things, some said that it was to change the country, and some said that it was to become officials and participate in politics.
Lin Zixuan nodded, these students' ideological consciousness is very high.
"After I went through that incident in the United States, I made up my mind that I would study for the rise of China in the future." Lin Zixuan said angrily.
There was applause in the auditorium, and the students were very excited, feeling that Lin Zixuan was not a bourgeois reformist, but very revolutionary.
"It's not just an empty slogan, it's about making it a reality." Lin Zixuan waited until the applause subsided, and continued, "I studied economics at that time, and I wanted to save the country with the economy, but after serious thinking, I changed my mind, the economy may be able to make the country rich and strong, but it cannot make the people awake. ”
"Only literature can play this role." He said unquestionably.
After Lin Zixuan whitewashed his black history, he began to make excuses for plagiarizing novels again.
In fact, his economics is a mess, and he was able to graduate because Columbia University has less strict requirements for international students, especially since he has a bachelor's degree, which cannot be compared with those international students who get a doctorate at every turn.
Lu Xun studied medicine in Japan that year, but later gave up medicine to pursue literature and became the leader of new literature.
It is said that it is because Lu Xun believes that studying medicine can only heal people's bodies, but literature can heal people's minds.
But who knows if Lu Xun didn't study medicine well, so he had to change his career to write articles, no one can say for sure.
"At first, I didn't know what to write, so I wrote two short stories imitating Western literature, namely "The Old Man and the Sea" and "The Little Prince" in your hands, which are just my studies." Lin Zixuan said modestly.
The students and professors below were depressed.
You are embarrassed to say that it is your work, and your work is sought after by Americans, and you even went to the United States to fight a copyright lawsuit for this, is there such a work?
Are you making other writers die of shame?
"After returning to China, I began to try to write vernacular novels, and for a while I didn't know what to write about, but when I saw the novels serialized in the newspaper, I felt that the plots of those novels were not novel enough, so I wrote "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"." Lin Zixuan said flatly.
The students and professors at the bottom don't know what to say.
How talented you are in literature!
Seeing that other people's writing is not good, he made up a story casually and became popular all over the beach, becoming a master of popular literature, and leaving no way for other writers to live.
"As for the new poems, it's funny to say, my fiancée was studying in Peking at the time, and I planned to write a poem every day to send to her in order to pursue her." Lin Zixuan smiled happily and recalled, "Later, these poems were fortunate to be seen by Mr. Zhou Zuoren of Peking University and published in the magazine "New Wave", which gave me some fame. ”
The students and professors below are no longer able to complain.
Are you here to teach us how to write, or are you here to attack us, you can become the founder of new poetry by chasing a girlfriend, we really don't live in the same world as geniuses.
"That's when 'Thunderstorm' was written." Lin Zixuan struck the final blow and said in a relaxed tone, "My fiancée's girls' school wants to rehearse a drama and ask me to write a script, so there is "Thunderstorm". ”