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The publication of Hughes's biography is a great joy for any publishing house, so why not go?

Of course, McCrowhill is also very cautious about these Hughes's commissions.

They brought in a professional note-taker to determine the authenticity of the letter.

I have to say that Owen's talent in counterfeiting is indeed very high, and he never thought that he would have such a talent.

In the end, the two experts agreed that it was Hughes's handiwork, and that both McClaushire and Owen were pleased with the result.

He made this decision immediately, so Owen pretended to go to Puerto Rico after the two reached an initial intention to work together.

On the surface, he was talking to Hughes about something, but in fact, he went on vacation with his wife.

After a while, he played around and came back, and he faked a contract signed by Hughes, which of course he forged.

In the eyes of the publishing house, Hughes is a celebrity after all, and it is understandable that people draw up their own contracts.

However, there are actually some very strange provisions in this contract.

For example, it requires McCrowhill before the entire manuscript is delivered.

The fact that the matter must be kept strictly confidential and not publicized seems to be in keeping with Hughes's eccentric personality.

But in fact, this is Owen's own little calculation to prevent this matter from being exposed prematurely.

In addition, they agreed on a specific price in the contract, and McCrowhill paid Hughes $750,000 in compensation.

McCraw-Hill saw the price and happily agreed, because $750,000 was nothing compared to the expected revenue from the autobiography.

In addition to the price, it is also stated in the contract that the payment will be made by check, and the name of the recipient must be written in the abbreviation of Howard Hughes.

The reason why H.R. Hughes was written was actually to make it easier for Owen to withdraw money.

At that time, after receiving a check for $750,000 from McCrowhill, Owen gave the check to his wife, Edith.

Let her take a wig and fly to Zurich with a forged passport and ID card, open an account in a Swiss bank in the name of Helga Hughes.

Why the name Helga Hughes?

Because the abbreviation of Helga Hughes also happens to be HR Hughes, in this way, Helga Hughes told the bank that the check was addressed to him.

So it was logical to withdraw all the $750,000.

Owen, who received the money, still has some professionalism.

In order to write a credible biography, he went to the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., Palm Springs in California, the Houston Chronicle and the Houston Post.

Investigate Hughes's life and look around for those who have been in contact with him.

After nine months of work, in the winter of 1971, the first draft of Howard Hughes's autobiography was finally completed.

Owen gave the first draft to McGonagall Hill, and McGraw Hill read it and was very satisfied with the contents.

Even later the life weekly of the ugly country made a very high evaluation, and they said this:

The manuscript is straightforward and informative, full of anecdotes that shock the plot.

And the information about Hughes's youth is very detailed, including his struggles in the film industry, his involvement in the field of aerospace, his beginnings, his private life, his views on everything in the world, and his grotesque style.

From this evaluation, it seems that Owen's writing is indeed good, but is this really the case?

Actually, no, in fact, a lot of the content in this first draft was copied by Owen from other people's work.

But since it was copied, why wasn't it discovered?

After all, this Owen was very lucky, when he was in the process of researching materials, a writer friend once approached Owen and asked him to help polish a book manuscript.

This manuscript is also an autobiography, written by a writer friend to a man named Noah Dietrich.

And this Noah Ditrich, he was actually an assistant to Hughes and had been with him for many years.

So, in this person's autobiography, a lot of stories about Hughes are recorded.

So at that time, Owen secretly copied the manuscript and added many of the stories to his manuscript.

And coincidentally, this autobiography of Noah Di Trissi has never been published since.

So, no one knows that a lot of the first draft that Owen wrote was actually copied.

It can be said that all this is like a divine pillar.

In December 1971, after a thorough examination of the manuscript and its findings of perfection, McClouch Hill made the announcement.

Hughes's autobiography will be published in March next year, but it was this statement that indirectly led to the downfall of the Watergate boss at the time.

At that time, after learning that Hughes's autobiography was going to be published. Some people were more anxious and expectant, so he used his special relationship to get the content of the manuscript from McCrawhill.

Although some of the content in the manuscript was copied by Owen from others, it was only a part, in fact, a considerable part of it was made up and fabricated by Owen himself.

For example, there is a story about Hughes and Watergate, who once borrowed $400,000 from Hughes but never paid it back.

This episode was made up by him, in fact, he once saw a news that Hughes borrowed 200,000 from Edward, the younger brother of Watergate.

So, he used the topic to make up one, saying that the Watergate boss himself borrowed 400,000 from Hughes.

This plot happened to be known to the Watergate boss himself.

Later, some people speculated that the Watergate boss might have really borrowed money from Hughes, and that the money might have been used in some shady place.

Owen was crooked, and when the Watergate boss saw it, he was worried that this incident would become a handle for the donkey family to attack the elephant family.

So he sent a few agents to infiltrate the Watergate Building, the headquarters of the Donkey Family, and installed bugging devices, which were later discovered.

Thus, the famous Watergate scandal broke out, which eventually led to the ouster of the boss.

Therefore, the autobiography born in this scam also inadvertently led to the fall of Watergate.

On the other hand, after McClough Hill announced the news of Hughes's autobiography, it didn't take long for the matter to reach Hughes himself, and Hughes was stunned when he heard it.

Quickly wrote to McCrowhill and said that he did not have an autobiography.

McLoucill's company didn't care about it, and thought Hughes was kidding himself, after all, Hughes has always been weird.

It is possible to think that Hughes may be suspicious, and he may want to officially announce this matter when it is published next year, and it is possible to surprise everyone, which is very in line with his formal style.

Isn't this the end of it?

Hughes also felt very helpless, so he asked his lawyer to send a lawyer's letter to McCraw Hill, denying the autobiography.

However, McCrawhill remained unmoved after receiving the lawyer's letter.

After all, they had seen Hughes's authorization letter and the contract signed by Hughes before.

On top of that, the $750,000 check they paid Hughes has been shown to have been taken by Hughes himself.

Therefore, they are convinced of the autobiographical thing.

On the contrary, it was Hughes's lawyer who made them feel very suspicious, and even replied to the lawyer.

Since you have contacted us in your capacity as Mr. Hughes's lawyer, please show your written proof that Mr. Hughes has entrusted you with this matter.

Of course, at that time, in order to be sure, McCrowhill did another note test.

The results of the appraisal still believed that the authorization letter and the contract were indeed written by Howard Hughes himself, and this result made McCrowhill Company even more confident.

So much so that when Hughes personally called McCrawhill, they still didn't believe it, and even thought that the caller was impersonating Hughes.

And this incident also made Hughes completely angry, and he couldn't bear it, and on January 7, 1972, Hughes held a press conference to clarify the matter.

And this is the first time Hughes has appeared in public since he lived in seclusion for 14 years, so with the press conference, everything was revealed.

The police also began to intervene, and Owen could only admit that he had indeed done a lie.

Eventually, Owen was sentenced to two years, and his wife to one year.

As for the fake Howard Hughes autobiography written by Irving, 36 years later, in 2008, the British John Black Publishing Company bought the rights and officially published the book.

The book sold quite well, of course, it can't be read as an autobiography, but only as a read.

For Owen, two years in prison was not a long time, and after he was released, he continued his creative career.

And to some extent, Owen's scam did succeed.

Although he didn't make money directly from it, he became famous because of it, and he appeared on the cover of Time magazine and became completely popular.

Many people read his books out of curiosity, and the books he wrote are indeed not bad.

Until now, Irving has published more than 20 books on Amazon's e-store, four of which have made it to the New York Times bestseller list.

There is also an ugly Chinese literary master who is good at self-hype, and I am afraid that his fame is better known - Hemingway.

Hemingway was born in Oak Park, on the edge of Chicago, to a father who was a well-known physician who was a bold and meticulous physician who enjoyed masculine sports such as hunting in his spare time.

He was bent on building Hemingway into a real man from the inside out, and spared no effort to educate and shape Hemingway's male temperament.

But Hemingway's mother did the opposite, not only giving little Hemingway a little girl's skirt, but also keen to cultivate his artistic talents such as music and painting.

His mother may have preferred him to grow up to be a middle-class cultural elite, and there is also a theory that his mother always wanted to have twin daughters, so she always disguised him and his sister as twin sisters.

Apparently the parent's education was divided in Hemingway's body.

Throughout his life, this divide was never bridged in him.

On the one hand, it seems that his father has the upper hand on the surface, so he follows the trajectory set by his father:

At the age of three, he had his first fishing rod, which was a gift from his father; He started smoking at the age of ten, and with his first shotgun, his father taught him to shoot; At the age of twelve, he began to drink, and he drank that inferior whisky;

It is said that at the age of thirteen, he had the experience of having sex with women; He started learning boxing at the age of fourteen, and whoever dares to doubt that Hemingway is not a real man will definitely be annoyed and angry.

However, one critic ridiculed him for "lacking the calm self-confidence of an adult" and being a man who "sticks fake hair on his chest".

When Hemingway later met the other party, he not only tore off his shirt and the other party's shirt, compared whose chest hair was real, but also pressed the other party to the ground and beat him violently.

However, this very masculine and rough male temperament is just his appearance, and he has been trying to play and adapt to the role of "man".

In Hemingway's works, he seems to be constantly educating and convincing himself that he must become a man, even if there are difficulties and pressures.

The so-called "elegant demeanor under pressure" and "a person can be destroyed, not defeated", Hemingway wrote these golden sentences may be more to convince himself.

Everyone knows that Hemingway committed suicide in the end, and there are many writers in the history of world literature who committed suicide, some threw themselves into the river, some turned on the gas, and some lay on the rails.

But Hemingway's method was the most decisive, he stuck a shotgun into his mouth and shot himself in the head.

When his wife found out, most of his head had blown off, only his chin was left, and his teeth, flesh, and bones were splattered all over the ground.

This is really the most brutal way to commit suicide.

But few people know that Hemingway's father also committed suicide, he used to think that his father's suicide was a cowardly escape, and then slowly felt that "death is a kind of beauty, a kind of quietness, a kind of deformation that does not make me afraid".

His father once sarcastically said that you may not even have the courage to kill yourself.

My father shot himself in the head with a pistol, and Hemingway blasted his head with a shotgun. It seems that I am fighting for this breath until the death - I am better than you.

One more thing, later Hemingway's sister, younger brother, and granddaughter all ended their lives in various ways, and four generations could not escape the fate, so it was once called "Hemingway's curse".

It is "on par" with another "cursed" family, the Kennedys.

But unlike the Kennedy family, the Hemingway family members did not die in an accident, but inherited "bipolar disorder".

Hemingway's grandson, John, once wrote a book about the "curse" of four generations, from Hemingway's grandfather to Hemingway's grandchildren.

So some people say that Hemingway did one thing all his life, which was to try to play a man like his father, or even stronger than his father. m.jújíá?y.?? m

Throughout his life, he tried to overcome the anxiety of castration, which was evident in his life and in his work.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.

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