Chapter 409 It’s done
Chapter 409 It’s done
The novel is serialized in the Daily Express today.
"Let me see whose work it is today?" Kane has achieved great success.
Relying on writing royalties and annual copyright income, it should be no problem to get 40 dabuluo in the annual summary, the unit is British pounds.
In Paris, people with over 50,000 pounds are considered middle class, which means Kane Van Zestone can already buy himself a decent set of clothes.
Da Ying is a well-known troublemaker, and one-third of the border issues in countries around the world are related to him. One of his few advantages is that he invented a pretty good-looking clothing system.
But Kane wears a windbreaker in spring, autumn and winter except for the hot summer. He wears a single-sided windbreaker when it is hot and a fleece windbreaker when it is cold. They are all in brown and black.
Then, with his Panama hat pushed down and his collar turned up, Kane loved to haunt the streets at dusk, even when meeting with his editor, and he looked like he had really joined some mysterious religion.
It is for this reason that personal "charm" adds a bit of strange appeal to Kane's works. Many readers believe that Kane's Cthulhu short stories have the shadow of autobiography...
"The Call of Cthulhu? The great horror writer Mr. Gu Lu has finally returned to the field he is good at." Kane suppressed the urge to shout "Cthulhu is giving out candies" at the door of the bookstore.
I bought some curry and ingredients at the supermarket and drove home. Kane's apartment was in a great location in London, but the interior decoration was - let's put it this way, he could just charge admission fees and use it for visiting exhibitions.
Humans are animals after all, and animals are naturally inclined to follow whatever path will bring them benefits, which is also known as path dependence. Kane already had some magical gold, and this would increase the sales of his works, which exacerbated the situation.
Kane couldn't wait to start reading. His senses were similar to Yao Xiaoju's, and both felt the authentic flavor of the work.
Kane finished reading the 30,000 words and was overwhelmed with emotion. He was deeply impressed by two details in the book:
[The police were unable to elicit any consistent descriptions of these mysterious criminal accomplices. The main clues they obtained came from an extremely old mestizo named Castro, who claimed to have traveled by ship to a foreign port and had conversations with an immortal pagan leader in the mountains of China…]
The above is the original text, Gu Lu did not change it. The Call of Cthulhu does have a description of the Chinese immortality (longevity) paganism, I don't know what the prototype of Ai Shouyi is.
It’s just that Gu Lu added a little thing at the end of the article. The protagonist of the story is a Christian, so the pagan representatives in the article are religions other than Christianity.
"The Yin-Yang fish and the Tai Chi Yin-Yang are the only human beings who can face the indescribable things without going crazy, and the philosophy left behind?" Kane was very concerned about the paragraph with only two strokes. As one of the builders of the Cthulhu world, he was very cautious about adding any elements. This paragraph also expresses the core of Cthulhu. Ordinary people cannot understand the ancient gods, cannot look directly at them, and cannot talk about them...
In English, Yin and Yang are translated as Yin and Yang, and Tai Chi is Taiji. Tai Chi in "tai chi" represents a type of Chinese Kung Fu, and the meaning is completely different. In general, the Englishman Kane can understand the translation of Yin and Yang Tai Chi.
Another detail is - why not Weymouth or Bournemouth? Kane is a little disappointed.
In Cthulhu stories, small towns are xenophobic and residents discriminate against outsiders. His hometown, Weymouth, even excludes him, which is simply the place chosen by the story!
In comparison, the stages where this story takes place, San Francisco and the Unnamed Sea, are a bit lacking.
"That's also very good. Mr. Gu Lu finally brought out the most important god in the series, the sleeping god Cthulhu. The world view is even more magnificent." Kane thought.
After four or five years of development, all the settings in Gu Lu were improved by later authors.
For example, the University of Michigan, which appears most frequently, and Miskatonic University are also settings frequently chosen by writers such as Kane.
The University of Michigan is at the top of the world in mysticism, history, geology, biology, engineering and other disciplines. And every year, it steadily supplies talents to mental hospitals and cemeteries!
There is an independent game about Cthulhu in the UK, and its name is "Cthulhu Simulator".
Kane looked at the rows of sculptures on the table. They were all custom-made sculptures of the Ancient One, the Deep One, Dagon, the Lord in Yellow, and others. The ceiling cast a dim light, and anyone who came to his house for the first time would feel creepy.
"It has a human silhouette, an octopus-like head with many tentacles, a scaly, gelatinous body, giant claws, and long, narrow wings. It looks pretty cute." Kane summarized Cthulhu's appearance and decided to customize a peripheral product tomorrow.
To be honest, Kane is Cthulhu shining into reality. You know, there are many Cthulhu believers in the story of "Call of Cthulhu", holding the statue of Cthulhu and kneeling down to worship him. Then look at Kane's actions, just...
“Still maintains the same level as At the Mountains of Madness.”
"The King of Cthulhu is Calling", written by Kane in the column, announces Gu Lu's return.
For a while, all British writers or film and television screenwriters who had made a living in this field came out to express their welcome.
[We all know that the Cthulhu series is the most unique horror series in the UK. Likewise, we should know that its creator is Gu Lu.] Screenwriter of the British TV series "The Mist".
[Gu Lu's Cthulhu series of works inherits the classical tradition of English literature that focuses on plot and atmosphere, and reflects the fear of the unknown deep in the human soul! "The Call of Cthulhu" is a novel that seems to be a documentary report from decades ago.] Comments from the Costa Book Award Organizing Committee.
[His requirement for himself is not just to attract readers and tell a horror story from the last century. Rather, he uses it as a contrast to emphasize what is lost in contemporary society as technology develops. His reflection on life makes him an excellent writer in popular literature.] Daily Mail Book Review Column.
Wait, some of these people came out voluntarily, some were called by Yao Xiaoju to create momentum, and some were called by Kane.
With so many layers of combination, there are too many people carrying the colorful sedan chair.
Even passers-by who had never paid attention to works of this subject before were attracted - look at these comments, what's going on?
"Inheriting the British classical tradition? Our country's classical tradition is Shakespeare's writing method?" "A horror novel written by a Chinese to fight discrimination represents Britain? Don't be too outrageous!" "What kind of things can a horror novel be written about?" and so on.
Gu Lu's return was very successful and even made the cake bigger.
Some curious reporters even went to Weymouth to ask the current governor of Weymouth what he thought...
It's heartbreaking to kill someone!
Most of the readers' feedback was positive, but of course there were also complaints. For example, the legendary Great Old One Cthulhu was actually killed by a ship - or not really killed by a ship, because it was explained in the end that the gel-like substance was reorganized.
Many writers joined in, and the old gods written about later became more and more powerful, like Hastur, the Yellow King created by Cain, who was extremely powerful.
The Daily Express was also a winner, once again gaining huge popularity!
Yao Xiaoju also refused various activities, because many writers invited Gu Lu to participate in salons. He had discussed this with Xiao Gu Ge, and he would not participate in such salons abroad.
"Okay - what is the purpose of collecting this data?" Yao Xiaoju asked, and immediately added, "If it's inconvenient to tell me, you don't have to tell me."
Hearing this question, Gu Lu sighed. This was not what he wanted to pretend, but the stage was already handed to him.
Things happened in this way and that way, and Gu Lu narrated the "practical events" simply and clearly.
Oh no, this gave Brother Gu another chance to show off. Yao Xiaoju thought of that special subway card.
"Just some feedback on the Internet is not detailed enough, right?" Yao Xiaoju suggested, "Is offline information necessary?"
“I don’t know if it can drive related offline businesses.” Gu Lu was a little unsure, mainly because he was not clear about Daying’s consumption habits.
"There are a lot of discussions about Call of Cthulhu on Twitter. After all, the entire series is called the Cthulhu series," Yao Xiaoju said. "Whether there is one or not, I'll go to Chinatown to help."
“Is there a Chinatown in London?”
"Of course, the Soho area in Westminster is London's Chinatown." Yao Xiaoju suddenly said, "I seem to remember there is a foreigner street in Wudu?"
"That's true." Gu Lu responded.
The conversation suddenly came to a halt. Yao Xiaoju seemed to have no words to continue the topic that was suddenly asked, and Gu Lu was silent too.
When Yao wants to say something, he will suddenly change the subject. You only need to wait for a moment to hear what he really wants to say.
As expected, a few seconds later Yao Xiaoju said, "Brother Gu, you have such a high talent for creation, but you must not become a scholar. That is not what you should do, Brother Gu!"
"Hahaha, Brother Yao, don't worry. I am still a long way behind those powerful researchers, and I know my own limitations." Gu Lu felt that he was more valuable as a vanguard.
The two of them didn't chat any more and hung up the phone.
That night, Yao Xiaoju sorted out the first set of information and sent it to Gu Lu.
The work efficiency is very good.
Released in Call of Cthulhu, a search for the Tai Chi Yin Yang diagram.
"You know China's Tai Chi. Who is the inventor of Tai Chi? He is the only person in the world who can look directly at the ancient gods and still remain sane. It's hard to imagine how genius his mind is."
“I searched on Google for the Tai Chi Yin and Yang, one black and one white, and I thought it was quite aesthetic.”
“I remember this appeared in Zhang Yimou’s work Shadow. What does it mean?”
"Although the novel is fictional, the Tai Chi Yin Yang fish seems to be the number one image in China. Like Mona Lisa's smile, it has an elusive beauty. Many countries have cited it, including the flag and air force emblem of South Korea, the flag and military emblem of Outer Mongolia, and the air force emblem of Singapore."
"It seems to have a complicated meaning, with a chaotic connotation - isn't this the same as the indescribable chaos expressed by Cthulhu?"
……
Okay, Gu Lu looked at the more than one hundred items.
(End of this chapter)