This is by far the volume with the most words and the largest amount of information. It is also the penultimate main volume of the tower.
I still have to thank Jin Meng for the reward from Zeze. This is the first time in the history of cats that sales have reached the top...
Moreover, the call from the previous volume seems to have worked! There has been a very obvious rebound in reading this volume, The Cat is Touched!
My grades have improved and my health has recovered. Double happiness!
Without further ado, next is the inspiration sharing session for this volume!
The name and theme of the volume "Core and Shell" comes from Gibran's essay "Shell and Core".
Strongly recommend everyone to go check it out!
In this volume, Mao tried to use the creative technique of multiple topic points. Among the many techniques that Ta Xin tried, I feel that it is a very suitable technique! The writing is very smooth this time, and I feel that I can use it directly in the new book!
Core and shell, as the name suggests, are the contrast between "outside and inside".
At the beginning, I used the contrasting character of Comb Teeth as a MacGuffin, and quickly created this character. I also used him as the center to reveal the theme of "core and shell", and conducted the first theme anchoring.
The three reversals of the sheath are also a process of repeated questions. The diametrically opposite nature of the inside and outside of the sheath is another question. The "sheath" itself is the veneer of the "blade", and his name itself is also A hint.
The flipping of the Veil of Ignorance is another introduction - in a sense, Fuji Society and the Veil of Ignorance are completely opposite organizations. Bing Shui's speech also revealed this falsehood, and it is more in line with Gibran's The theme of this essay: People actually don’t know what they want, and they can’t be sure that what they see is true.
The third aspect of this theme is the "grey dome" and the "black tower." The gray dome covering the outside of the planet is the "shell"; and the god buried in the sea of group subconscious is the "core".
The fourth side is Russell's plan, the exchange between "Barber" and "Xiao Liuli".
Through the perspective of the ordinary UP owner "Mark", Russell's public relations methods are demonstrated, and the secondary theme "Shell is Core" is finalized for the first time.
The fifth side of this theme, which is also the second rendition of the secondary theme, is Russell's Essence of Dusk.
"Russell" itself and the spiritual energy of the God's container are actually "shells". The real essence is the egg of dusk sealed in the container - the new dusk species named "Tombstone". As it expands , the shell will eventually be unable to hide the essence of the core, and will wake up to the fact that it is just a shell.
Through the secondary theme of "the shell is the core", Russell himself denied this fate.
He may be just a shell that hatches at dusk, but who says the core must be more important than the shell?
The shell is not a tool for hatching the core, and the false things that people understand are not meaningless; in other words, the truth deep inside is not necessarily more valuable than the "mask" exposed to the outside.
What finally anchored Russell's own value was his "love" for the shell.
Even if it is a false shell, there are still people who love it.
In terms of narrative structure, Russell's anxiety about his twilight nature is actually equivalent to people's anxiety about their inner nature being exposed when they get along with close people.
This is undoubtedly a story of hope and love.
Although the story line of this volume is very clear, the repeated confirmation of the theme is vague. This is a volume that I feel is in pretty good shape... because it means that the purpose of my creation - that is, "private goods"
In itself, it does not excessively wear down the flow of the story. But it also gives the story a structural beauty, which can be regarded as the obsessive-compulsive disorder of cats. Strictly speaking, it is a literary pursuit that does not have much meaning...
In the case of writing this volume using only this new technique that I have not tried before, I think I have achieved a level that can be called "good". I can probably give myself a ninety percentile.
No worries! Next is the preview of the next volume!
The next volume is a volume with "Yongquan Island" and "Sogo Island" as the main stages, with the appearance of the inferior and the strangled!
We will have a day off as usual on October 31st, and will update near midnight on November 1st!
But speaking of it, Cat No. 31 has already updated 5,000 words (sad)
I don’t know why, but I feel like my vacation has been taken away from me...
Volume 8·Wolf Words.
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