British writer

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

In this way, after a week,

The Mirror is in the final stages of preparation, with Scott and Cooper visiting to decide the final details of the paper.

On this day, Lu Shi woke up early.

He fed us chicken,

The little guy is still unsatisfied after eating, licking his tongue cutely.

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

While speaking, while hugging me,

"Hiss... so heavy!"

My generation: "Meow~"

Act cute when facing Lu.

Lu Shi asked: "Natsume, what do you usually feed us? Could it be that you didn't control your appetite? This guy is already seriously overweight."

Natsume Soseki smiled embarrassedly,

"I think he likes to eat, so...hehehe..."

Lu Shi: "..."

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

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

It produces big elbows that are sure to be solid.

Lu Shi put us on the ground, picked up a piece of discarded manuscript paper, and made a ball, shaking it to attract our attention,

My generation: "Meow?"

Looking at Lu is like looking at a fool.

However, Lu Shi took this opportunity to quickly pop out the ball of paper at us with his fingers.

Natsume Soseki said: "My generation is so fat, how could I pick up..."

The latter words were choked back.

Because my generation, like a goalkeeper, quickly caught the ball of paper with its claws with a perfect saving action.

Our generation is usually lazy, and only Ge You is paralyzed, but when it shows its instinct, stupid humans will find that the original cat's reaction can be so fast.

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

"Let's exercise with it for a while. You can try to pop all the balls of paper together to see if you can play it faster or I can catch it faster."

Natsume Soseki took it and tried it once,

In the end, we were actually able to catch both at the same time.

One person and one cat had a great time.

About ten minutes later, Natsume Soseki was tired first,

"Lu, why do you know everything? You are so good at raising cats."

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

This guy is more playful than my generation.

Lu Shi waved his hand,

"Can't get all the games out so quickly."

Cats are curious creatures.

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

Natsume Soseki nodded and continued to tease us.

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

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

Lu Shi replied, "I don't regret it."

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

Just halfway through speaking, there was a knock on the door outside.

Lu Shi walked over to open the door.

Scott was standing by the door.

The two greeted each other,

Scott walked into the house while taking off his hat, and said at the same time: "The serialization of "The Hobbit" is over, and Cooper is working on a booklet. There are a lot of trivial things at hand, and I can't get away for the time being, so I came alone .”

He bent down and touched my brain.

We deftly hid under the table.

Lu Shi asked, "How about the Mirror?"

Scott said: "Don't worry, we are professional in running the newspaper, and there will be no problems in the process. But "Mirror" is different after all, so I am still a little uncertain, and I want to ask you about the content."

Lu Shi was surprised,

"Now? Are you going to launch a publication?"

Whether it is a large newspaper or a tabloid, the cycle requirements are very strict. It is common to finalize or revise a draft in the middle of the night.

The content was not decided too early in advance.

Scott waved his hand,

"You misunderstood... Well... Let me give you an example."

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

Lu Shi raised his eyebrows,

Isle of Wight...

I always feel that this news is somewhat impressive, as if I read it in some materials or biographies before time travelling.

But he couldn't remember it for a while, 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... um..."

It seems that I don't know how to describe it.

Lu Shi could roughly guess what the other party wanted to express, so he said, "You mean typography, right?"

Scott nodded repeatedly,

"right!"

Lu Shi gestured in the newspaper,

"The typesetting of tabloids must have visual impact. Here in the title, you can put 'Moving to the Isle of Wight' at the front, followed by an exclamation point and then a question mark. The word 'Isle of Wight' is bolded and enlarged. And change it into cursive characters."

This typography is very tabloid style,

It's a pity that there are only six-color rotary printing presses, and newspapers can use only a few colors in printing, otherwise, the layout could be more eye-catching.

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

He added: "Then, a huge portrait or photo of the Queen should be placed next to it, occupying one-third of the entire page."

Scott has already seen this style of minimizing text,

——

THE SCOTSMAN

SOLD

20,000 COPIES!

——

Still fresh in my memory.

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

Lu Shi said, "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if the picture is vertical or horizontal?"

He drew a frame on white paper.

Scott glanced at it and said, "This box represents a picture, right? Why is the title covered?"

Lu Shi shook his head,

"Wrong. It's not the picture that covers the title, it's the title that covers the picture. Pressing the title on top of the picture, and intentionally letting some strokes go beyond the edge of the picture, can be impressive. That's why I say, the picture is vertical It doesn’t matter if it’s up or down, even if it’s irregular.”

The more Scott listened, the more shocked he became.

Lu Shi's idea is really too fanciful.

In Scott's memory, it seems that all newspapers are neatly formatted, and even advertisements are printed in invisible squares.

This kind of title breaks through the restrictions, which has never been seen before.

Lu Shi saw that Scott was silent, so he asked, "Can't the current printing technology be realized?"

There was no offset printing in 1901, and the rotary printing press might not be able to break through those troublesome rules and regulations.

Scott mused,

"No, it should be possible."

Lu Shi nodded,

"That's fine."

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

He continued to ask: "We have discussed before that the pages of the "Mirror" include people's livelihood, novels, comics, gender, jokes, and common sense of life. Let me talk about the people's livelihood page first. How should it be typed?"

Lu Shishi: "This is simple, just draw a diagram~"

Scott scratched his head,

"Is the chart a little too professional?"

Lu Shi smiled,

"It's just simple bar charts, line charts, and pie charts. It's impossible for the citizens of London to understand."

As he spoke, he drew three kinds of pictures on the back of the white paper,

"

Histogram, using the height of the column to reflect the difference of data;

Line chart, reflecting the change of data trend, especially suitable for occasions where the trend is more important than a single data point;

Pie charts reflect the proportion of a certain part to the whole, such as the percentage of poor people in the total population.

"

When Scott looked at Lu, his eyes changed.

He whispered, "Lu, why do you know everything?"

This sounds familiar,

Natsume Soseki seemed to have said that just now.

Lu Shi smiled and didn't answer.

Scott saw that he was unwilling to explain, so he turned the topic back to "Mirror", and said, "Lu, I hesitated again and again, but I decided to ask you how to write the gender section."

He asked last time, but Lu Shi hemmed and hawed it perfunctorily.

Lu Shi couldn't help being speechless,

He really can't write that kind of stuff.

But he was the one who proposed the gender layout, so we can't back down now.

He said, "Mr. Scott, do you want to accept the challenge?"

Scott scratched his head,

"Challenge? What challenge?"

Lu Shi smiled and replied: "Please write a story starting with 'If there is an afterlife, I will never like you again'. Or, write a story starting with 'Everyone thinks I like her'."

Scott froze slightly,

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

For a while, he fell into his own delusions.

Natsume Soseki's eyes widened in surprise.

"Is this some kind of composition?"

Lu Shi said: "I just want to tell Mr. Scott that dog blood...cough...articles involving both sexes must have gimmicks. At the same time, readers' imaginations must be stimulated and readers have corresponding substitutions. feel."

Natsume Soseki was surprised,

"Can this also be substituted?"

Lu Shi nodded and nodded in Scott's direction.

Scott was thinking about how to continue writing the story, looking blankly, as if his soul had gone 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 moment, there was a knock on the door...', isn't it very emotional?"

Natsume Soseki was stunned, and then said: "It's more than just a feeling!"

Lu Shi asked, "What's wrong?"

Natsume Soseki said: "This is simply a novel. The three elements of characters, plot and environment are all in place. The most exciting thing is that with only a few dozen words, it makes people's backs shiver and is immersive. .”

What Lu Shi was talking about was indeed a novel called "The Last Man".

This article is the shortest science fiction novel in the world. The author is Fritick Brown, a famous modern American science fiction writer.

Although the number of words is short, it allows readers to burst out countless whimsical ideas, and outlines the huge world view behind the novel through brain supplementation.

Natsume Soseki felt emotional,

When writing a novel, the most difficult thing is to let the readers have a sense of substitution.

Luckily, Lu Shi can easily handle it with a single sentence.

At this time, Scott suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Lu, you said last time that articles on the gender page should have the narrative function of novels, as well as the personal feelings of prose and poetry, and the documentary elements of reportage." Also essential."

Lu Shi laughed dumbly,

Unexpectedly, the other party still remembers now.

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

Natsume Soseki immediately took out a pencil and handed it along with the paper.

Scott was writing furiously.

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

"

Everyone thought I liked her. I also thought I really liked her. Until the night I realized I was nothing more than a stand-in...

"

This is so meow,

The taste is too positive!

Lu Shi felt that he had turned on a strange switch in Scott.

On the other side, Natsume Soseki nodded frequently, and said: "This paragraph is well written. Lu, I have to admire you. If you just give the beginning of a sentence, it will make people start infinite associations, and even the level of creation will be improved in a straight line. .”

Lu Shi: "..."

Only keep silent.

After a while, Scott finally stopped writing,

"how?"

Lu Shi praised: "It's well written. This is how articles on the gender section should be written."

Scott seemed to have opened up the two veins of Ren and Du, and he let out a sigh of relief.

"Hahaha! I knew it!"

He stood up, saluted Lu Shi as a gentleman, and said, "Lu, thank you so much! You have made an unparalleled contribution to the development of the British media! You are simply John Walter alive!"

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

Lu Shi clenched them all in embarrassment,

His palms were full of sweat.

Scott said with a smile: "The most important thing to write this kind of article well is to let the author provide readers with a sense of substitution."

Lu Shi coughed lightly,

"Yes, that's right."

Scott gearing up,

"Now, I have basically mastered how to design the layout and how to write the content of the article. When will we release the first issue?"

Newspapers are generally launched on a day with special significance.

Take "The Times" as an example. The founding date was New Year's Day in 1785, a new year with a new atmosphere.

Or, it was launched on the day of a big news, as is the case with the "Daily Telegraph" and "Daily Mail".

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

Scott nodded.

"Can."

After finishing speaking, he sighed again, and said, "But there is no news about hot styles recently. If it is always clichéd, the sales volume may be relatively mediocre."

If it was any other newspaper, Scott would never use the word "comparatively average".

He would just say "dead".

But The Mirror is very different from ordinary newspapers,

It is the first tabloid in the world, with a special page layout and unprecedented design of each page, and the content is popularized to the end, so survival is definitely not a problem.

Scott said, "Lu, I'm an ambitious man."

After hearing this, Lu Shi smiled,

Of course he could hear Scott's implication,

Ambitious people will not be content with "survival" and "comparatively average". It's a pity that "Mirror" has such a good foundation and it doesn't become a blockbuster.

Lu Shi said, "Then wait."

News, always comes.

The corner of Scott's mouth raised an arc,

"If it doesn't work, use your "The Fellowship of the Ring" to escort the "Mirror". It just so happens that "The Hobbit" has just finished, and with this shareholder style, the "Mirror" can definitely sweep London's journalism industry .”

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

Scott didn't force him either,

"It's okay, good things take time, and we journalists are the most patient."

Are journalists impatient?

Just as Lu Shi was about to complain, he heard someone knocking on the door again.

Scott rose from his chair,

"I'm going to drive! Cooper should be here!"

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

But Scott is very excited now, and wants to meet Cooper immediately, and share the "Sunflower Book" he just learned from Lu Shi with his close friends.

Scott went to open the door,

It was not Cooper standing outside the door, but an English gentleman with a somewhat familiar face.

Scott froze for a few seconds and recognized the other party,

"Mr. Xiao!?"

Hearing these words, Lu Shi quickly walked towards the door, only to find Bernard Shaw standing there,

He asked in surprise, "Why is Mr. School Supervisor here?"

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

"Who is this?"

Lu Shi hurriedly introduced the two of them.

Bernard Shaw walked into the room and said at the same time: "I heard Sir Wodehouse talk about the "Mirror" before, and I also know that Mr. Scott has made great efforts. Thank you very much."

Scott waved,

"No, no, it should be me thanking Professor Lu."

In front of the supervisor of LSE, Scott no longer called Lu Shi "Lu" to show respect.

Scott pointed to the beginning of the article he wrote just now, and said: "Without Professor Lu's guidance, I would definitely not be able to write such a spiritual article on gender."

Bernard Shaw was stunned,

"Both genders?"

Why does this word sound weird.

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

George Bernard Shaw suddenly realized,

"So that's the case, just now I thought...hehe..."

He showed a smile that any man could understand.

Tabloids are not that serious in some ways,

Taking "The Sun" as an example with the highest sales volume, there is the famous "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 on the stage every day, with a protruding front and a back.

With the current level of conservatism in the UK, Guo Nu is still too advanced.

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

Bernard Shaw nodded,

"Of course~Of course~"

He stopped talking about the "Mirror" and instead talked about the purpose of this visit, saying, "Lu, take a look at this list."

Bernard Shaw took out the thick stack of papers that he carried with him.

Lu Shi looked familiar,

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

He looked through the list,

As always, twenty names per page,

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

Lu Shi was puzzled,

"what happened?"

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

He made a crossing motion with his finger, and then said: "These people all contacted the Swedish Academy and rejected this nomination."

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 mentioned just now the Nobel Prize? It is the international award that has been judged since this year? The one with a prize money of more than 40,000 Swedish kronor?"

Bernard Shaw nodded solemnly,

"right."

Scott was shocked: "Are these people crazy!?"

But he quickly collected his emotions, like a hyena's half-sharp sense of news made him aware of something,

"What's the reason?"

Bernard Shaw pointed to Lu Shi,

"Because the Nobel Committee did not nominate Mr. Tolstoy, a literary giant, Professor Lu believed that the Nobel Prize for Literature was unfair and lacked an international perspective, so he voluntarily rejected the nomination."

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

stare--

Sight is like a knife.

Lu Shi glared at Bernard Shaw,

"Mr. Supervisor, you have picked yourself too clean, haven't you?"

Bernard Shaw laughed,

"I was influenced by you~"

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

After finishing speaking, he continued: "But the problem is, how can this incident make people in Cambridge...well... also, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. The professors of literature and linguistics at the two schools are very busy. It doesn't touch the ground, but the University of London Union is very leisurely, it is impossible for people not to be curious."

Bernard Shaw shook his head,

"It's not what you think."

He talked about the oolong made by the British Consulate in Sweden.

Lu Shi could hear vomiting blood,

"Fxxk! No wonder I think this is spreading so fast."

The news let Cambridge University know, which is equivalent to the entire British literary world.

The British literary circles know it, and so do the Western European literary circles.

Lu Shi scanned the list again,

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

Mr. Monson, the author of "History of Rome", is also among them.

The rest are mostly Nordic and Eastern European writers,

Then there are a few Asian and African faces, they did not withdraw because the news had not yet reached there.

Lu Shi looked at those names,

After a long time, he said: "Among the remaining people, I have only read the works of Mr. Xiankeweiqi."

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: "..."

This is ruined!

It's all ruined!

The remaining 90% on the list are Nordic writers, and Lu Shi has heard of less than ten in total, and has not read any of their works.

Worst of all, Sully Prudhomme, winner of the first Nobel Prize for Literature, also withdrew from the selection.

The world line has undoubtedly changed.

Bernard Shaw smiled and said, "Dear, just, strict, and humble Professor Lu, this time you have caused a big disaster. The Swedish Academy must have hated you. In the future, you are destined to miss the Nobel Prize for Literature." ~"

This old man picked himself out again.

Lu Shi said, "It's nothing more than a Nobel Prize. But why did they withdraw?"

Bernard Shaw replied: "Hahaha, you are asking too much, obviously pretending to be confused. What else could be the reason? Of course the reason is the same as yours."

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky had a profound influence on the entire European literary world,

It's no wonder that Lu Shi would "respond to everything".

He said, "I declined the nomination because I didn't want to go into the muddy water. Fortunately, the muddy water is myself."

These words made all three present laugh.

My generation also sticks out its head,

"Meow ~"

Bernard Shaw said, "Lu, I have another matter for you. Because of your impartiality, the entire literary world in Western Europe admires you. The French Academy would like to invite you to communicate with me in the past for about a week."

Scott on the side listened and said, "Professor Lu, you should go. Don't forget, the "Mirror" still lacks headlines~"

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