Lu Shi refused to be nominated for the Nobel Prize, what should he do.

And so, after a week,

The Mirror is in the final stages of preparation, and Scott and Cooper will visit to decide on the final details of the paper.

On this day, Lu Shi got up early in the morning.

He fed us with chicken,

The little one is still unsatisfied after feasting, licking his tongue cutely.

Lu Shi complained: "It's obviously a three-flower cat, but it's so edible." I don't know, I thought you were an orange pig~"

While speaking, he picked up my generation,

"Shhh...... It's so heavy! ”

My generation: "Meow~"

I pretend to be cute when I am on the land.

Lu Shi asked, "Natsume, what do you usually feed my generation?" It can't be that you don't control the amount of food, right? The guy is already seriously overweight. ”

Natsume Soseki smiled embarrassedly,

"I saw that he liked to eat, so I ...... Hey, hey, hey......"

Lu Shi: "......"

Now I understand what it means to be a loving father and lose a child.

If we continue to feed like this, our generation will be able to stamp the seal of "quarantine qualified" in the coming year and send it directly to the slaughterhouse.

It produces a big elbow, which must be very solid.

Lu Shi put my generation on the ground, picked up a piece of discarded manuscript paper, formed a ball, and shook it to attract the attention of our generation.

My senior: "Meow? ”

It's like looking at a fool when you look at Lu.

Lu Shi took this opportunity to quickly pop a paper ball with his finger at our generation.

Natsume Soseki said: "My generation is fat like that, how can I take ......?"

The latter words were choked back.

Because we were like a goalkeeper, with a perfect save action, quickly caught the paper ball with our claws.

My generation is usually lazy and lazy, and only Ge You is paralyzed, but when it shows its instincts, stupid humans will find that cats can react so quickly.

Lu Shi took two more paper balls and handed them to Natsume Soseki,

"Exercise with it for a while. You can try to pop all the paper balls together to see if you can play it faster or if you can catch it quickly. ”

Natsume Soseki took it and tried it once,

As a result, my generation was able to catch it at the same time.

One person and one cat had a lot of fun.

For about ten minutes, Natsume Soseki was tired first,

"Lu, how do you know everything? Even cats are so good at it. ”

He stretched and said, "Are there any other games?" ”

This product is more playful than my generation.

Lu Shi waved his hand,

"You can't get all the games out so quickly."

Cats are curious creatures,

But this curiosity comes and goes quickly, so it is necessary to guide it step by step, which is the right way.

Natsume Soseki nodded and continued to tease us.

After playing for a while, he said: "Lu, don't you regret rejecting the Nobel Prize in Literature?" ”

He already knew about Lu Shi's refusal of the Nobel Prize.

Lu Shi replied: "No regrets." ”

Natsume Soseki sighed: "You are really indifferent to fame and fortune. The Nobel Prize in Literature is ......"

Halfway through his sentence, there was a knock on the door.

Lu Shi walked over and opened the door.

Scott was standing in the doorway.

The two said hello,

Scott took off his hat and walked into the house, and at the same time said: "The Hobbit is over, Cooper is working on the matter of a single book, and there are a lot of trivial things at hand, and I can't get out of it for the time being, so I came alone." ”

He bent down and touched my skull.

We deftly ducked under the table.

Lu Shi asked: "What happened to the Mirror?" ”

Scott said: "Rest assured, we are professional in handling the newspaper and there will be no problems in the process. But the Mirror is different after all, so I'm still a little unsure, and I'd like to ask you about the content. ”

Lu Shi was surprised,

"Now? Is this ready for the first publication? ”

Whether it is a big newspaper or a tabloid, the cycle requirements are very strict, and it is common to finalize or surprise revisions in the middle of the night, and it will be printed that night, and it will be delivered and distributed on time.

There is no decision on the content too far in advance.

Scott waved his hand,

"You misunderstood...... Not...... Let me give you an example. ”

He looked around, his gaze wandered, and finally locked on The Times, and said: "Take today's fourth page as an example, what should the Mirror write about the news of Queen Victoria's move to the Isle of Wight?" ”

Lu Shi raised his eyebrows,

Isle of Wight ......

I always feel that this news has some impressions, and I seem to have read it in some materials or biographies before crossing over.

But he couldn't recall it for a moment, so he shook his head, put it behind him, and asked Scott, "You mean the content of this article?" ”

Scott replied, "Not the content, I mean...... Hmmm......"

I don't seem to know how to describe it.

Lu Shi could roughly guess what the other party wanted to express, so he said, "You're talking about typography, right?" ”

Scott nodded repeatedly,

"Yes!"

Lu Shi gestured in the newspaper,

"The typography of tabloids must have a visual impact. In the title, you can put 'Moving to the Isle of Wight' at the front, followed by an exclamation mark and then a question mark. The words 'Isle of Wight' were bolded, enlarged, and changed to flower-style characters. ”

This typography is very tabloid style,

Unfortunately, there are only six-color rotary printing presses, and there are not many colors that can be used in the printing of newspapers, otherwise, the layout can be more eye-catching.

Lu Shi took a blank piece of paper and drew the title position on it.

He added: "Then, with a huge portrait or photograph of the queen on the side, it should occupy a third of the page." ”

This style of minimizing text, Scott has seen it for a long time,

——

THE SCOTSMAN

SOLD

20，000 COPIES！

——

I still remember it vividly.

Scott asked, "So, the portrait or photograph should be vertical?" ”

Lu Shi said: "It doesn't matter. What does it matter if the picture is vertical or horizontal? ”

He drew a frame on a blank piece of paper.

Scott looked at it and said, "This box represents the picture, right?" How did you cover the title? ”

Lu Shi shook his head,

"Wrong. It's not the image that covers the title, it's the title that covers the image. Pressing the title on top of the image, and deliberately making some strokes extend beyond the edges of the image, can make it impressive. That's why I said that it doesn't matter if the picture is vertical or horizontal, even if it's irregular. ”

The more Scott listened, the more shocked he became,

Lu Shi's thoughts are really too sky-starry.

In Scott's memory, it seems that all newspapers are well-typed, even if they are advertisements, they are printed in invisible squares.

This kind of title breaking through the limit has not been seen before.

Lu Shi saw that Scott didn't speak, so he asked, "Can't the current printing technology achieve it?" ”

In 1901, there was no offset printing, and the rotary press did not necessarily break through those troublesome rules.

Scott groaned,

"No, it should be possible."

Lu Shi nodded,

"That's fine."

Scott looked at Lu Shi and sighed in his heart that Cooper didn't come and missed such a good learning opportunity.

He continued: "We discussed before that the Mirror's layout includes people's livelihood, comics, gender, jokes, and common sense of life. Let's talk about the people's livelihood layout first, how should it be typeset? ”

Lu Shishi: "This is simple, draw a chart~"

Scott scratched his head,

"Wouldn't the charts be a little too professional?"

Lu Shixiao,

"It's a simple bar chart, a line chart, a pie chart, and the citizens of London can't fail to understand it."

As he spoke, he drew three kinds of drawings on the reverse side of the white paper.

“

Histograms, which use the height of the columns to reflect the differences in the data;

Line charts, which reflect changes in data trends, especially when trends are more important than a single data point;

A pie chart that reflects the weight of a certain part of the population, such as the percentage of the population living in poverty.

”

Scott's gaze changed as he looked at Lu.

He whispered, "Lu, how do you know everything?" ”

This sounds familiar,

Natsume Soseki seems to have said it just now.

Lu Shi smiled and didn't pick up.

Seeing that he didn't want to explain, Scott turned the subject back to the Mirror and said, "Lu, I hesitated, but I decided to ask you how the gender section should be written. ”

He asked last time, but he was perfunctory by Lu Shi.

Lu Shi couldn't help but be speechless,

He really can't write that kind of thing.

But he proposed the gender layout, and now he can't back down.

He said, "Mr. Scott, do you want to take up the challenge?" ”

Scott scratched his head,

"Challenge? What challenges? ”

Lu Shi replied with a smile: "Please write a story that begins with 'If there is an afterlife, I will never like you again'." Or, write a story that starts with 'Everyone thought I liked her.' ”

Scott was slightly stunned,

But with the thinking of those two sentences, all kinds of bloody plots rushed into my mind,

For a moment, he fell into his own myth.

Natsume Soseki's eyes widened in surprise,

"Is this some kind of composition?"

Lu Shi said: "I just want to tell Mr. Scott, dog blood...... Cough...... Articles involving both sexes must have gimmicks. At the same time, it is also necessary to stimulate the imagination of readers and make readers have a corresponding sense of substitution. ”

Natsume Soseki was surprised,

"Can this also be substituted?"

Lu Shi nodded and gestured in Scott's direction.

Scott was thinking about how to continue the story, and he looked like he was out of his body.

Lu Shi said: "Actually, there are many similar beginnings, such as 'The last person on earth was sitting alone in the room, and at this time, there was a sudden knock on the door...... 'Isn't it very feeling? ”

Natsume Soseki was stunned for a moment, and then said, "It's not just feelings!" ”

Lu Shi asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Natsume Soseki said: "This is simply an article, the characters, the plot and the environment, all three elements are available. The best part is that with just a few dozen words, it makes people's backs chill and immersive. ”

Lu Shi is indeed talking about an article, called "The Last Man",

This article is the shortest science fiction in the world, written by the famous modern American science fiction writer Fritic Brown,

Although the word count is very short, it allows the reader to burst out with countless whimsical ideas and outline the huge worldview behind it through brain filling.

Natsume Soseki sighed in his heart,

Writing, the most difficult thing is to make the reader have a sense of substitution,

Lu Shi is good, it can be easily done in one sentence.

At this time, Scott suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Lu, you said last time that the narrative function of the articles on the gender page must also have a personal feeling of prose and poetry, and the documentary component of reportage is also indispensable. ”

Lu Shi smiled dumbly,

I didn't expect the other party to remember it now.

"I think I know how to write this kind of article," Scott said. Can you borrow me a pen and paper? ”

Natsume Soseki immediately pulled out a pencil and handed it over along with the manuscript paper.

Scott wrote the book.

Lu Shi watched from the side, and at the same time read out in a low voice:

“

Everyone thought I liked her. I thought I really liked her. It wasn't until that night that I realized I was just a stand-in......

”

This special meow,

The taste is too good!

Lu Shi felt like he had turned on some strange switch from Scott.

Natsume Soseki on the other side nodded frequently and said, "This paragraph is well written." Lu, I have to admire you, you can give the beginning of a sentence casually, you can make people develop infinite associations, and even the level of creativity has improved linearly. ”

Lu Shi: "......"

The only way to do this is to keep silent.

After a while, Scott finally stopped writing,

"How?"

Lu Shi praised: "Well written. That's how the articles in the gender section should be written. ”

Scott seemed to have opened up the second pulse of Ren Du, and let out a long breath,

"Hahaha! I knew it! ”

He stood up, saluted Lu Shi gentlemanly, and said, "Lu, thank you so much!" You have made an unparalleled contribution to the development of the British media! You're John Walter alive! ”

John Walter, the first editor-in-chief of The Times, founder.

Lu Shi clenched in embarrassment,

The palms were full of sweat.

Scott laughs: "If you want to write this kind of article well, the most important thing is to let the author provide the reader with a sense of substitution. ”

Lu Shi coughed lightly,

"Yes, that's right."

Scott shook his hands,

"Now, I have a basic grasp of how to design the layout and how to write the content of the article. When will we release our first issue? ”

Newspapers are generally founded on days of special significance.

In the case of The Times, for example, the first day of publication was New Year's Day in 1785.

Or, on the day of a major news, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.

Lu Shi asked, "Can it be launched within a week?" ”

Scott nodded,

"Yes."

After speaking, he sighed again and said: "But there is no explosive news recently, if it is always a cliché, I am afraid that the sales will be more average." ”

If it were any other newspaper, Scott would never use the word "more general".

He would just say "it's dead".

But the Mirror is very different from ordinary newspapers,

It is the world's first tabloid, with a special layout plan, the design of each page is unprecedented, and the content will be popularized to the end, and survival is definitely not a problem.

Scott said: "Lu, I'm an ambitious person. ”

When Lu Shi heard this, he smiled,

Of course, he could hear what Scott was saying,

Ambitious people will not be willing to "survive" and "be more ordinary", "The Mirror" has such a good foundation, it is a pity not to make a hit.

Lu Shi said, "Then wait. ”

News will always come.

The corners of Scott's mouth hooked an arc,

"If you really can't do it, use your Fellowship of the Ring to protect the Mirror. The Hobbit has just ended, and the Mirror can definitely sweep London's journalism by storm. ”

Lu Shi said: "To be honest, I haven't figured out whether the Lord of the Rings trilogy will be serialized or published directly. ”

Scott didn't force him either,

"It doesn't matter, there are many good things, and we news people are the least patient."

Journalists are not short of patience?

Lu Shigang wanted to complain, but heard someone knocking on the door outside.

Scott got up from his chair,

"I'll drive it! Cooper should have arrived! ”

According to etiquette, there is no reason for guests to run to open the door,

But Scott is now excited to meet Cooper and share the Sunflower Book he had just learned from Lu Shi with his best friend.

Scott went over to open the door,

Standing outside the door was not Cooper, but a somewhat familiar English gentleman.

Scott was stunned for a few seconds and recognized the other party,

"Mr. Xiao!?"

When Lu Shi heard this, he also walked quickly to the door, but found George Bernard Shaw standing there,

He was surprised: "Why is Mr. Supervisor here?" ”

George Bernard Shaw nodded at Lu Shi, then looked at Scott,

"Who is this?"

Lu Shi hurriedly introduced the two.

George Bernard Shaw entered the room and said, "I have heard Sir Wardhouse speak of the Mirror beforehand, and I know that Mr. Scott has done a great job, and I am very grateful. ”

Scott waved his hand,

"No, no, I should be grateful to Professor Lu."

In front of the school supervisor of London Politics and Economics, Scott no longer called Lu Shi "Lu" as a sign of respect.

Scott pointed to the beginning of the article he had just written and said, "Without Professor Lu's guidance, I would never have been able to write such a spiritual article on both sexes." ”

George Bernard Shaw looked confused,

"Sexual?"

How does the word sound weird.

Scott laughed and told the story of the newspaper from beginning to end.

George Bernard Shaw suddenly,

"I see, I thought it was ...... Hehe......"

He smiled in a way that all men would know.

The tabloids are really not so serious in some ways,

Take the highest-selling newspaper "The Sun" as an example, there is the famous "Page 3 Girl" (Page 3 Girl),

Originally, the third version of the girl was just a portrait of a famous model, but later the form changed, and she simply became a fruit girl who appeared every day, convex and backward.

With the current degree of conservatism in Britain, the fruit girl is still too advanced.

Lu Shi said: "After all, it is a university newspaper, and we still have to pay attention to the impact. ”

George Bernard Shaw nodded,

"Of course ~ Of course ~ "

He no longer talked about the "Mirror", but talked about the purpose of the visit, and said: "Lu, look at this list. ”

George Bernard Shaw took out a thick stack of paper that he had with him.

Lu Shi looked a little familiar,

"Isn't this the list of Nobel Prizes in Literature?"

He flipped through the list,

It's the same as before, still twenty names per page,

But for some reason, the vast majority of names are blacked out or crossed out by a long line.

Lu Shi is puzzled,

"What's going on?"

George Bernard Shaw lowered his voice and said, "It seems that you don't know yet......"

He made a gesture with his finger and then said, "These people, all of whom contacted the Swedish Academy of Letters, rejected the nomination this time." ”

Not only Lu Shi, but Scott and Natsume Soseki next to him were also stunned,

The jaws of the three fell to the ground and shattered.

Scott asked, "Mr. Xiao, is the Nobel Prize you just said?" Is that the international award that started this year? The one with a prize of more than 40,000 SEK? ”

George Bernard Shaw nodded solemnly,

"Yes."

Scott was shocked: "Are these guys crazy!?" ”

But he quickly collected his emotions, like a hyena's semi-keen sense of news that made him sense something,

"Why?"

George Bernard Shaw pointed to the land,

"Because the Nobel Committee did not nominate the writer Mr. Tolstoy, Professor Lu thought that the Nobel Prize in Literature was not fair enough and lacked an international perspective, so he voluntarily rejected the nomination."

In an instant, Scott's gaze fell on Lu Shi,

Staring –

The sight is like a knife.

Lu Shi glared at George Bernard Shaw,

"Mr. Superintendent, you've picked yourself too clean, haven't you?"

George Bernard Shaw laughed,

"I've been influenced by you~"

Lu Shi complained: "Don't say that you don't seem to have personal thoughts." ”

After saying that, he added: "But the question is, how can this matter make the people of Cambridge ...... Not...... Also, there is no impermeable wall in the world. The professors of literature and linguistics at Niu and Jian are busy with their feet on the ground, but the University of London Alliance is very leisurely, and it is impossible not to be curious. ”

George Bernard Shaw shook his head,

"Not what you think."

He recounted the oolong that came out of the British consulate in Sweden.

Lu Shi vomited blood when he heard it,

“Fxxk！ No wonder I felt like it was spreading so quickly. ”

The news was known to Cambridge University, which is equivalent to the entire British literary community.

The literary world in England knows it, and the literary world in Western Europe knows it.

Lu Shi scanned the list again,

Almost all British literati withdrew from the selection of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by France, Germany and other bigwigs.

Mr. Monssen, author of the History of Rome, is among them.

The rest, mostly Northern and Eastern European writers,

And then there are a few Asian and African faces, and they haven't quit because the news hasn't reached that side.

Lu Shi looked at those names,

For a long time, he said: "Of the remaining people, I have only read the works of Mr. Sychonkewicz. ”

George Bernard Shaw stepped forward,

"What? I haven't crossed out his name yet? ”

He looked left and right,

"Lu, lend me a pen."

Lu Shi: "......"

It's ruined!

All the special meows are ruined!

The remaining 90 percent of the list are Nordic writers, and Lu Shitong has heard of less than 10 of them, and has not read any of them.

The most terrible thing is that the winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, Sully Prudhomme, also withdrew from the selection.

There is no doubt that the world line has changed.

George Bernard Shaw smiled and said, "Dear, fair, strict, and humble Professor Lu, you are in trouble this time. The Swedish Academy of Letters must hold a grudge against you, and in the future, you are destined to miss the Nobel Prize in Literature~"

This old brother plucked himself out again.

Lu Shi said: "It's just the Nobel Prize, it doesn't matter. Why did they quit, though? ”

George Bernard Shaw replied: "Hahaha, you are asking this question, obviously pretending to be confused. And why? For the same reason, of course. ”

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky had a profound influence on the entire European literary scene.

It is no wonder that Lu Shi will "respond to every call".

He said: "I refused the nomination because I didn't want to wade into troubled waters, but now it's better that the muddy waters are actually me." ”

This made all three people present laugh.

My generation also poked his head out,

"Meow~"

George Bernard Shaw said, "Lu, I have another thing to do with you. Because of your impartiality, the whole Western European literary circle admires you, and the Académie Française would like to invite you to communicate with me for about a week. ”

Scott, who was on the side, listened and said, "Professor Lu, you should go." Don't forget, the Mirror is still short of headlines~"

Ready-made news, there it is!

(End of chapter)