A long letter from Mu Xin to Chen Yingde and Zhang Mimi: "My cunning is honesty"

Mu Xin sent letters to Chen Yingde and Zhang Mimi.

Mr. Yingde and Ms. Yami:

The letters of the two of you, and the letters of Mr. Heels, were all received.

I restrained my desire to reply to the letter, in order to wait for my articles to be published one by one, accumulating a certain number to win the favor of both of you. Therefore, I always complained that the three supplements were too warm and warm, and according to this appetite, I fed ten supplements at the same time more than enough - anyway, there was no possibility, I was happy to brag.

What I'm most happy about is the comment you both made in your last letter about my previous batch of copies. I guess you'd love to know what I think after reading the "comments", which can also be called "feedback from comments". First of all, I always say: good evaluation, excellent!

I didn't expect that my official landing on the treasure island literary circle was such a "pomp", didn't I think there was a blow, and then the curtain was lifted, and I came out to meet the audience. The result is that the backstage has changed, the scene has been lit up, and Wu's naked body rushed to the front of the stage, a series of confessions: I am lame, I lose, I gaffe, I am thin, I am naughty, I am greedy, I am not a painter, I am a coachman... Of course, the big director Mr. Xie Xian was painstaking, and I was embarrassed. Just think, from the article, the last paragraph of "Atlantic Casino Night" is the mystery, the mystery is exposed to the mystery, then (which) has such a thing. If I were a reader, I would be amazed that the ingenuity of the whole text has been completely exposed.

This refers purely to "art". In terms of "human feelings", I am certainly grateful for the preferential treatment and solemnity of the editors, proofreaders, and illustrators. This article is not obscure, but I know that there are not many people who understand it. Among the taiwanese readers, there is a Mr. "Little White Dragon", who said: "Writing scenes, Taoist feelings, and interpreting Buddhas can all get 'full points'." This has already made me laugh and say, "Regardless of the loser or the winner, the gambler will always lose the bet of the 'true meaning of life'", which is even more ridiculous. Dan Qing said, "You are beginning to be misunderstood, you have to stop it!" I turned around and comforted him: "I am not afraid of both positive and negative misunderstandings, what I experienced before was a 'positive' misunderstanding, wasn't it thirty years without drowning me?" Later, I experienced 'anti' misunderstandings, and I hope it is 'a few people have read Homer, and the whole world is reading Homer', so why should I be afraid. I calmly saw that the launch of "Atlantic Casino Night" was a failure, the "readers" letters forwarded by the editorial office were all marginal praise, and there may be only one really smart reader in Taiwan, that is, Mr. Xie Xian. He said in the letter: "Thank you for handing over such an important article to us for joint publication. Enough is enough, with his word "important", I am satisfied. Dan Qing also applauded: "The strings are powerful, really smart, he knows the 'important', this is a prophecy and declaration of a new century." "Mr. Yingde, before Mr. Hexian saw through the "trap" of the wooden heart good cloth, usually I lay a small trap, in this text, I laid eight in a row, the night one is the largest, so "... Night" as the title. Dan Qing asked, "Your article has caused me a kind of physiological pleasure, on what basis is it written?" I can only reply: "Articles with a childlike heart and the art of war." ”

I have always been sincere, and I have always known that "it is useless to think straight". Art can't help but start from the beginning to the end, "Wang Gu left and right to talk about him". When I used the luxurious scene, when I was gushing and unashamed, Mr. Yingde gently touched The shoulder of Ms. Mimi and whispered, "Mu Xin is cheating again, and what he wants to show is simplicity and humility." ”

"The Drums of Lincoln Center" and "Three Women on the Street" are "game articles" and are not trivial. The "eye" of the "Lin" text lies in the end: "In the eyes of the performer, the audience is extremely small, but he cares, but he attaches great importance to those who do not want to listen when they are not present." For the sake of these four sentences, I have made such a complicated exposition, which is my so-called "art of war."

"The Perfect Girlfriend" has loopholes to be rewritten. (It has been written and will be published in The Times.) The two paragraphs quoted by Ms. Mimi are the more desirable in this article, and the last "blue sky, yellow tiles, red maple, white-haired old woman riding her bicycle with a straight waist, spinach and shallots on the back frame, happy and trembling..." should be a poor stroke in this article.

"FangFang No.4" is a deliberately funny work, simply a Mandarin duck butterfly pie. I looked down on it, in fact, there was a real end in the end, because Dan Qing proposed to delete it, so I deleted it. But my idea is all on the deleted "tail", I want to show the cruelty of human nature, but now I show mercy. When the episode is later formed, the tail is put on, and you can see what I am going to write. (This article is always bad.) ）

Ms. Mimi's comments on "Xia Mingzhu" are pertinent, and you can see clearly before and after. "Standard", I am happy to accept such a "compliment" from you, which can probably be used as a model textbook for "short story writing methods". A laugh. Dan Qing liked this article very much, and he was first moved by the plot. I quickly said, "No, no, you just look at the writing." He put aside the story, turned to my words, the twists and turns in the details, smiled, smiled, and said: "You can really tease people, but you are sad and compassionate." I added, "Write about times like this, these people, with this tone." The trick is this, and what the story counts. ”

"Cigarette Butts" and "Passengers on the Last Train" are tragic memories, when they are stabbed, but it is easy to mistake them for "funny". Especially the grandfather in "The Last Train", a moment of poverty, makes him extinct humanity. And the young man who changed his position many times, knowing that he would get off the bus in less than three minutes, would also jump to occupy what he thought was the best "position".

"Ask americans" is actually a general question of human beings (modern people). Ms. Mimi explained Saint John Perse in detail, and was grateful to her for changing the episode to "St. John Persia". This is a matter of knowledge, I am ignorant of the details, only to become "Joan Bosi", fortunately Ms. Mimi knows its details, to make up for my deficiencies, so that I will not laugh generously. So happy, thank you. In the future, try to catch my flaws, or if you have doubts, please bother to take the place of the wise ones and decide to sue me. At the same time, Lalo is not Spanish, and I would like to thank you for your correction, I changed it, changed it to Goya, (so dangerous!) If you are still wrong there when you are out of the episode, it is not a shame, you can correct it for me in time, it is simply a "lifesaver". How happy I am that you have to be as critical as possible for my article, as necessary, as much as possible. Knowledge and learning do not let people, do not "contain" my flaws, any slight sense of impropriety, they pointed out to me, not to mention my big mistakes! Every time I see a friend who is learned and knowledgeable, I am as happy as I am, and I am bold!

At this point, Mr. Yingde is a little anxious, why not talk about "and Meika"!

Well, of course, to talk about, you said how your comment "and Meika" excited Danqing. He happily shouted on the phone that "Chen Yingde has made great progress." I was confused by him, what "progress" is not "progress". He said, "What's the word?" I thought about it and thought about it before I answered, "Should I use 'Enlightenment'?" Dan Qing corrected it to "That is really a great realization." To make a long story short, your comments on "and Meika", Dan Qing also had this "heart", this "intention", and this "speech", so your letter to him can be said to have touched his "key point". Your letter to me can be said to be on my "lifeblood". The letter was received at the same time, and Dan Qing asked urgently: "Did you receive the letter and see his comments on 'and Meika'?" I said, "Yes." He sighed, "Well, how nice it would be for you to receive it later." It means that it is up to him to "announce the good news" to me. He thinks that you use the genius of the painting to evaluate literature, and suddenly penetrate and shine brightly, so that he triumphantly applauds both you and me at the same time. Thinking that "a good thing is someone who recognizes the goods", the implication is that he applauded "And Meika" at that time and called it before you. (Because he saw it first, he was looking at the original.) Having said that, it was also Danqing who called all the way, and I wrote all the way and published it all the way. But it never got the approval of the editor's readers. Yang Ze, the only one, said: "You won the award in Taiwan." "I don't care about winning awards. Dan Qing always believed and worried, and said, "'Ji Mei Ka' still has to be written, can it be written, I see you can write it." I poked him: "I'm afraid I can't write it, right?" He laughed: "It's terrible, you have so much inspiration?" It's all about inspiration! I know you have, but how can a person have so much inspiration, you are abnormal, really afraid of people. I'll have to stay away from you in the future, or I'll never dare to write! I was also stunned by him, busy saying "don't leave, don't leave, I don't write." Look, how funny two idiots are. Coupled with your comment, Dan Qing is more confident: "Out, out of "and Meika Caprice", it should be called "Wooden Heart Caprice", for us to fight for us, there are people in China. "I can still calm down, I am excited to be told by you to the subtle place of the soul, since the Tang and Song dynasty essayists passed, the Ming and Qing essays are also very successful, how can it be "incoherent" in modern times. The classical tradition is gone, and the achievements of vernacular literature after May Fourth are also finished. The content is not to be discussed, just on the text, these old guys and little guys really don't know what "literature" is, basically "not". It makes me extremely sad to think that the ancients were so good at writing, but today's people have become literate "illiterates". It's so lonely and pathetic. You're right, the new poets overseas have achievements, and I think the most outstanding of them is The Crane String, Yang Ze, and of course there are several new poets. (Some of the poems of the scab strings are at the world level, and I highly value them.) In terms of literary form, it is divided into such a way, but in fact it belongs to "prose", or the so-called "prose poem", Dan Qing thinks that it is inappropriate, and I do not want to call myself "and Meika" as "sketch text". You compare the short texts made by today's people with those made by the ancients, and think that they are "loose and godless." Yes, the godless man lacks knowledge, and the loose one does not have literary skills. Imagine how much the ancients attached great importance to demeanor and upbringing, uttered words, raised their hands and feet, and paid attention to style, while the writing for the text was word by word, deliberate and deliberate, in order to be elegant and cut, more competitive than sharp and new, word improper, and restless all night - this precious Chinese cultural tradition was swept away by the elders and roughs, replaced by dogmatic slogans, these people behave vulgarly, export hurtful, do not hurt people, squeak, there is still a logical literary style to speak of. They think that writing an article is just writing down what you say – I'm in a hurry! Not only prose, poetry, novels, almost all do not know the "method of article", just as China has no classical literary tradition, nor does it exist in the world's classical literature and modern literature - it is really terrible, desolate!

Dan Qing Ji Qing, who can often speak as an old man: "I didn't see you, I felt that there was no one in Literature in China, and when I saw you, I felt that there was no one left." "I'll be happy to hear that there, and it's just a matter of sighing. After Lu Xun passed alone, he was indifferent to the present, and even if I wrote something in the future that can be regarded as a literary work worthy of my ancestors, how can I make up for such a vast "literary desert". I may be one or two "empty valley foot sounds", foot sounds (stop), the empty valley is still an empty valley, at least ten Lu Xun-level literary scholars, to fill the empty valley! I am a "wood" difficult to support the building, written out is only for two or three confidants to laugh one night, and then write, another night... Then I "went back" and the work was annihilated.

No one revealed me to teach me. Artistically, almost every thought is the "past", "present" and "future" of the "world", which I laughed at myself and jokingly called it "modern instinct". Danqing is really interesting, often take me to Compare Lu Xun, compared to coming and going differently. I smiled and said, "So don't compare, anyway, I am more bitter than Lu Xun." "Lu Xun is a literary talent, and his personality is really precious, he is not retiring art to the second line, just imagine, if he wants to put art in the first place, it will not work." "Weeds" is an experiment, half success, half failure. Nietzsche can write philosophical lyric poems, Lu Xun's philosophical dimension is limited, lyrical and impatient, just □ deep, suddenly flowing into funny. (He himself said, "Slippery is the enemy of creation.") I have loved Lu Xun since I was a child, and the so-called "May Fourth" new literature and art in China, I only recognize one Lu Xun, and the others do not recognize accounts.

Pull away, come back and judge your "review". You see my "habit" of driving words in "And Meka", to put it bluntly, I have experienced more than forty years of literary "practice" since I was twelve or thirteen years old, and even the most stupid person should know how to write. Imagine that there are still (which) Chinese readers who are willing to endure insults, loneliness, risk their lives, write and change all day long, all year round, change and copy, re-copy, and then transcribe, and the result is burned. In this way, there have been three cases and three downs, and now it is the fourth case, which has been turned into a lead word and spread. I am not yet a "literary scholar", if it is in the future, we will be better than others, and our perseverance may be "the first in the world". There is a sentence in the "Virtue Chapter" in the "New Language of the World": "Climbing on the car and taking over the wheel, there is a desire to clarify the world." "Boarding the car, taking the wheel, is a small action, but there can be a clarification of the world's expression." My so-called "essay" may have a bit of such a taste, of course, I am ashamed. To put it bluntly, my method is to find some topics that others have talked about, and when I talk about it, sometimes I will have the illusion, as if others have never talked about it. I may be cunning, and my cunning is honest. I have a lot of feelings, thoughts, and I don't want to say it directly, and I can't bear to strangle it, so I hide it in the text, and I see the beginning and the end. Mencius was "a good argument, but a last resort". I am "not good at arguing, I have no choice but to argue", and once I argue, it is not art. Reading my article, perhaps there is a so-called "physical pleasure" that Dan Qing is sensitive and overflowing, if you look deeper, you can find that the struggle of my concept in the form is just the mental action of a "world orphan" who is inexplicably miserable.

(Written on June 28)

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