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The main frame of this plot has been written out, and I can finally talk about it.
The prototype of the character Charlie comes from Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London". I first read this book, mainly to find some details about poverty and hunger. After all, although my family conditions were not very good when I was young, I also It’s just embarrassment, not to the point of hunger and poverty. If you want to write authentically, you need to absorb nutrition from various reportages, news interviews, and biographies. Well, the rest of the reference materials will be mentioned later.
In the process of reading "Paris and London Down and Out", I read the true story of the person who thought he was worshiping a saint, but turned out to be a prostitute, but he was really lucky and didn't starve to death. My first reaction was, I'm going, this is too supernatural Feeling strange, feeling weird, a taste of careful thinking and fear, if this is connected with the problem of the prostitute itself and the subsequent doom, isn't it a standard story of the mysterious world?
When I deliberately reproduced this plot and wrote it out, most readers also had the idea that there must be a problem, exactly the same as me.
And this is also in line with my desire to combine the events that actually happened in history with the extraordinary system to achieve the purpose of writing with illusion in the truth, and the illusion in the truth. This is the case from the beginning of mystery, but at that time, it may They mentioned the prototypes of the characters in time, or they used familiar history, such as the London smog incident, so no one said anything.
At the beginning, I just used the story of worshiping a prostitute as a reference material, and I didn’t have the idea to use it. Until I refined the settings related to the outer gods, and when I checked the etymology of Lilys, I saw a piece of information:
In the legends of the Syrian region, there are seven spirits of lust, male and female, a female named Lilith, a male named Lilin, and the remaining five are also named li+XXX. Dream sex, exhausting and tormenting, and then seeing oneself as the victim's wife or husband because of possessiveness, and then endangering the other half based on jealousy - from "The Witcher: A History of Fear" p. 107
Seeing this, my thoughts are:
Dream sex, lust, possessiveness, jealousy... Mother tree, you still say you are not yours!
After adding the spirit of **** and the concept of dryads as the Sequence 5 of the mother tree path, I also had the inspiration of how to deal with the material of worshiping a prostitute, and the idea of how to develop the subsequent plot, so I decided to use it.
I originally planned to use this material, so that people would not be able to see where it came from at a glance, but when I thought about it, it was wrong, and people would think that I made it up. Wouldn't this be the same as plagiarizing someone else's life? What is needed is to make it straightforward for people to see where this comes from. This can clearly pay tribute, so that people will not be misunderstood. Second, it can make readers find that this is a real historical event. Thinking carefully, this is the purpose of my writing. match.
Based on this idea, I tried my best to reproduce the joke about worshiping a prostitute as it was, and lead to a follow-up plot in which the spirit of **** caused the death of his wife or lover, and I was almost killed.
I originally planned to write out the sequence to which the mother tree belongs, and then mark the source together after mentioning the purpose of creation without spoilers, which caused confusion to some readers.
As for Charlie being raised by a rich woman and getting the diamond necklace, it has nothing to do with "Down and Out in Paris and London". Although there are similar plots in it, it ends with the rich woman stealing the diamond necklace and being caught by the police.
I wrote this plot, firstly, to play the popular "rich woman, hungry, hungry" stalk, secondly, I need to give Charlie a lover, otherwise I can't arouse the jealousy of the spirit of lust, and thirdly, uh, you didn't Can you see it? The core of this paragraph is essentially Maupassant's "Necklace". After suffering for a false thing, I finally discovered the core of false irony. Because it is "The Necklace", I used a diamond necklace instead of changing it to Other valuables are distinguished from "Down and Out in Paris and London".
By the way, Maupassant's "Orla" in his later years really has the taste of a mental patient raving. If he hadn't been earlier than the love of crafts, I would have doubted whether he had suffered from Cthulhu.
The source of the name Charlie is also "Down and Out in Paris and London", but it's not the one who worshiped the prostitute, but another one, because I like his tone of voice, tone and enthusiasm, so I just take the style, not the specifics Content, sentences, of course, in order to let everyone see it, I also added the characteristics of short handles.
As for the poor old couple selling postcards, there are character prototypes in "Down and Out in Paris and London", but there is only a short line of text without enough details to satisfy my idea of writing "No Country for Old Men" until I follow up in other materials I saw the definition of "street college beauty", saw the introduction of many people selling fake pornographic postcards, and saw the records of the police cracking down on photographers and underground printmakers, so I decided to use this material and dig it out. The story behind it extends my personal speculation and thoughts.
Many people take "Down and Out in Paris and London" as an example, and they may not remember what Orwell said at the end of the first part: "If anyone has time, why not write a biography for one of them, it will be very interesting. ".
Personally, I will not overestimate my ability to write biographies of the silhouettes of characters in literary classics. I just use this shell to tell my own stories to carry more ideas.
Others used are some real details that show hunger and poverty, so I won’t go into details. By the way, I originally planned to write this detail corresponding to a certain detail in another book. Yes, that way there is a sense of contrast and a sense of irony, but without the natural shift in perspective of the characters brought by the Tarot Club, I can only regret to give up.
The details are: During the Nasan period, a certain duke was deceived by a liar and died after taking arsenic-containing drugs for a long time, and his purpose was to make his complexion whiter.
This forms a very good contrast with the poor who rely on patting their faces to create a rosy feeling.
Well, the source should be "Impressions of Paris", which talks about the emergence and development of the Impressionist School, and there are also many interesting historical details of the characters in it, which may be used later.
Also, a character prototype in "Paris and London Down and Out" should be used later. The original text is only a short sentence, but I think there are many, many stories behind it, which are poignant and emotional. Let me tell you which one it is.
My personal habit is to directly quote the original sentence or a slightly modified sentence, which will be directly marked at the end of the chapter, and those who borrow character prototypes, object prototypes and historical events will be mentioned together in the final summary of each chapter. Otherwise, If you really want to mark them all, some chapters can mark more than ten or twenty.
After all, until now, every dish and wine name, legend, city detail, magic ceremony, folk culture, customs and customs that have appeared has its source.
For example, Fool Yi, in that era Paris was full of fun people.
For example, the source of the man who is willing to marry a death row prisoner so that he can be pardoned is page 11 of "The History of the Cafe in Paris". Hurry up and hang me! Please", Yan Gou died of a real case of looking at his face.
Well, many of the legends and proverbs in the first part come from the work "Montailou". It is the product of the study of the interrogation records left by a certain pope, and it truly shows the cultural customs and customs of the village of Montaiu in southern France. The details of life, the priest of the church is also a character prototype extracted from it, so I say you French, you are too romantic!
When summarizing the first part, I originally wanted to mention "Montaiyu", but because I was away from home, I used my mobile phone to type, and I was in a hurry, so I missed it. What I wanted to say at the time was, friends, the first part Many things are not jokes. For example, Jiu Niu Pulling the Coffin is not really teasing Dong Ge’s Jiulong Pulling the Coffin. It is a real historical legend in the Montaiu area. Human imagination is sometimes a bit similar.
Finally, a brief list of reference materials:
"Montailou"
"Golden Bough"
"Down and Out in Paris and London"
"Impression Paris"
The Witcher: A History of Fear
A History of Parisian Cafés
Balzac's "Peasant" and "Old Man Goriot"
"Orla"
The Monarch and the Contractor
"A History of France in Desserts"
The Crowd in the French Revolution
"From Dawn to Decline: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present"
The French People: A History of Four Periods and Five Regions
"French Food Tour"
The Catacombs: An Underground History of Paris
"Americans in Paris"
"History of the French Labor Movement"
Paris Has Fallen: The Siege and the Commune
"A History of France in French Pastries"
"Paris, Capital of the 19th Century"
Underground Literature in the French Ancien Regime
A Victorian Thriller
The Paris Commune: The World's First Proletarian Regime
"How Much Money Was Worth in the Past"
"Workers Revolt in Lyon, France"
Paris, London, New York, and the Imagining of Nineteenth-Century Urban Population
"History of the French Countryside"
"History of French Literati's Compassion"
"Women Who Light Up Paris"
"Wiccan Magic"
Guide to Western Mysticism
"Tarot Book"
"When the Occult Comes Knocking"
"The Inner Sky"
"Golden Dawn"
"Systematic Theology"
"Medieval Witches"
"How to Correctly Read a Medieval Cookbook"
"Victorian and Edwardian Architecture"
"Hemingway's Paris"
"People at the Bottom"
Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe
If I didn’t mention it deliberately, the sources should all be in the above books, lol.
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