Chapter 641
No wonder the tenor was excited.
In this world, papermaking has not even appeared, which means that literary creation is still in the stage of extremely simplified history books.
In ancient and modern China and abroad, before the advent of papermaking and printing, the cost of writing books was too high, and the main resources were devoted to more practical and urgently needed calendars and history books. The remaining resources will also be Used in poetry records.
The story is only passed on by word of mouth, and almost no book is written.
For example, in the Great Heavenly Dynasty, Legendary stories appeared from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The four famous novels are all from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Except for the fact that the poems were written by the Tang and Song Dynasties, the literati had no choice but to turn to dramas and scripts. The more important reason was the cost of writing books.
How many words did Zuo Si write in the Jin Dynasty?
Luoyang paper is expensive!
Put ten Cao Xueqins in the Jin Dynasty, and they wouldn't be able to write "Dream of Red Mansions"!
The bankrupt Cao Family has no money to buy paper! !
Therefore, before Dany "invented" Dragon Paper and True Dragon typography, the world of Song of Ice and Fire also followed a simple and direct historical style.
Writing history, of course, should be simple, clear, and direct.
As a result, Maesters has learned to be rich, and the novels and plays that Maesters have compiled are also dry.
It's like that thing in London, a posture of yang up and yin down, which is used for thousands of years.
Suddenly one day, a Dragon Queen popped up at Slaver's Bay and came up with a set of "108 Sigh Techniques". Can those dry people be amazed?
Literature skills, like science and technology, are constantly developing. If you don't believe me, go and read ancient masterpieces. In addition to the gorgeous words, beautiful sentences, and full of characters, it may not be as good as the great writers on the Internet in terms of story inheritance, plot design, plot conflicts, and the number of words.
Well, it's just the number of words in water. Don't think that a famous book is not hydrological, and there is no hydrology if you write a novel under the sun.
Sometimes the author deliberately uses water, but more often, the author does not know that oneself is in hydrology.
For example, "Journey to the West", Wu Chengen is definitely reluctant to hydrology.
However, in "Journey to the West", such bridges often appear: Holy Monk of the Tang was captured by the goblin, Wukong had a good fight, but he couldn't beat it, so he went to ask so-and-so to help.. .... Obviously our readers know Wukong's experience, but the author has to use Wukong's mouth to talk to so-and-so, and then tell Wukong's previous master, monster fight, and troubles in detail.
This is not what hydrology is?
Also, before Wukong, Bajie, Sha Seng and monsters fought, they often reported their names and origins, that is, they used a long saliva poem, acting cool, from birth to the present. The major event of life is said in a succinct way, which is catchy and slippery.
The first time I listened to it, I was amazed, but the second time, the third time...after the nth time, you will choose to fast forward.
Wukong and Bajie not only introduced oneself, but also introduced their weapons. The origins and functions of Golden Cudgel and Nine-toothed Rake were also compiled and repeated over and over again.
To put it bluntly, this plot has only one meaning in the text: acting cool!
How can I be so good, how can my weapon be so good, what is it not acting cool?
If you let a web writer write, he will act cool, even more often than Lao Wu pretends.
When you meet a monster, if you don't pretend to be forced ten times or eight times, you will be sorry for such a good goblin character.
Acting cool, a web writer, will definitely change his style and put on all kinds of brains. Registration numbers, dazzling weapons, even if there are, will only appear once.
Mostly, use Wukong and Golden Cudgel's actual combat performance to install.
For example, use Golden Cudgel to knock down a tree today, change it to a hill tomorrow, smash a continent the day after tomorrow, smash a planet the day after, and then smash a Sun system and a Milky Way galaxy the day after. , the universe, the multiverse...
Finally, across the computer and mobile phone screens, a Golden Cudgel hit the readers' heads.
cough cough, digressed.
In a word, Dragon Queen's non-straightforward creation method, in this world where poetry and drama are mainly flat and straightforward, is a kind of precedent, barely considered a "different world Shakespeare", attracting a lot of Everyone imitates.
Ghis slave-master, Citadel Maester, Free City's opera editor, and more, are all working on Slaver's Bay plays and Dragon Queen techniques.
Even the sensitive dwarf dispelled his suspicions about Dragon Queen at this moment, and only sighed: ""Rosey's Dream" is so well edited, it doesn't say that Faceless Men is not, but Make all audiences hate the Faceless Men."
"yes! Archmaester Walgrave is out of the blue, and Rosey's Dream will become a famous story through the ages." Tenor Approves.
"How come Citadel hates Faceless Men so much? Make up stories to slander Faceless Men." dwarf wondered.
"You don't know the conflict between Citadel and Braavos?" the tenor surprisedly said.
"I have heard a little," Tyrion thought about, and said, "The contradiction is not important, the important thing is that both of them violated the guest right, and they both put the 'Second Rat Cook' hat on the hat. On the other side. But it's been so long, why hasn't it stopped?"
"It's hard to end, Archmaester Walgrave even swore that 'Faceless Men won't dissolve, Holy War will never stop'."
“Why did it come to this?!” dwarf was stunned.
"It did stop a lot before, but recently..." The fat singer looked at dwarf hesitantly and stopped.
“Today I’m just an art hobbyist, we talk about art, we have no identity.” dwarf said.
"It wasn't long after your uncle's death that Citadel swore an oath to end the Holy War, and was very busy."
"Oh..." dwarf if any What I realized, nodded and said: "so that's how it is, the bastard of that group of monkey spirits, has a good abacus. It's just that the Faceless Men are more terrifying than me, right?"
The tenor took his eyes to Knight, who was patrolling the corner with the Astapor dog, and whispered, "Citadel also has a lot of dogs."
"It is known?" Tyrion's ugly face twisted.
"Of course, the world has been suffering from Faceless Men for a long time!" The tenor's voice was lower, and the mosquitoes were chirping softly.
"Does it work?" Tyrion was interested.
"Very effective, gossip, in the last six months, in Myr and Tyrosh alone, at least three assassinations of Faceless Men were discovered in advance, and even a Faceless Men was caught, but unfortunately he committed suicide | It's over."
"The Seven is on top, so powerful?" Tyrion was shocked.
The tenor looked left and right and saw that no one had noticed except for dwarf's female companion——Princess Arianne, so he smiled and said:
"Excellent hunting dog with special training" Can smell blood-reeking qi, can distinguish the breath of strangers, and is more sensitive to murderous aura.
You think about it, how can Faceless Men strip someone else's face and wear it on oneself's face. Avoid blood-reeking qi and murderous aura?
Even if he is skilled enough to hide blood-reeking qi and murderous aura, can the dog not detect strangers when he first appears?
It is said that a businessman in Myr found a business opportunity and began to secretly train special dogs, and they let people line up to walk past the hounds.
One hundred people in the line were mixed with a stranger, if the hounds could smell it If you can't smell it, you will die.
Use surviving hounds as seeds, puppies born for retraining, a thousand people lining up, mixed with a bathed stranger... ...
In this cycle, there will come a day when a stranger will never get close to 'Faceless Men'."
"Makes sense!"
Several people are talking, and there is a new stage play opening. The gloomy lighting atmosphere, the bizarre background music, the super-era Cthulhu stage design and costume props suddenly attracted dwarf's attention.
A tall, lanky man with a black beard and bald top was accompanied by a full 15 musicians, 10 more than the fat tenor.
"He's the Jackson of Pentos, known as the opera emperor." Fatty said sourly.
"...Under the shadow of the tower, the King of Darkness holds a list."
Jackson's resounding voice, even the one in the farthest corner of the hall The guards could also hear it, and those closest to the stage didn't find it noisy and harsh.
"He murmured softly, that's a name!" The drummers struck a slow, gloomy rhythm, and the faint clarinets sounded like ghosts whimpering in the night wind.
"One name, one soul." The musicians chanted in unison.
"He feeds on blood and killing, and the castle is full of models of human heads, each with a face, a thousand absolute names, a thousand absolute faces—" Jackson Raise your arms high, speak softly, and sing loudly.
"One name, one face, thousands of absolutely!" The musicians shook their heads together, chanting in a urn.
"Maegor the Cruel, Quentyn Fireball, Prince Robert..."
The drummer picks up the tempo, and Jackson chants a quick succession of names, some of which are well known, Some are quite foreign to Westeros.
"What does that mean?" dwarf asked in confusion.
"The name of this play is "Death God's List", and those names are all people who were assassinated by his dark king. They are all celebrities.
You haven't heard of it. , just because of a long history, or because of crooked nuts.” Arianne said.
"Have you heard of it?" dwarf was surprised.
Arianne nodded, rubbed her arms and said, "None of them can sing as well as the opera emperor, they have goosebumps all over, so comfortable!"
"Didn't he commit suicide? How can it be framed on Faceless Men?"
"Maegor's suicide is just speculation, think about it, he has Balerion, and he is so cruel, would he be a cowardly person who committed suicide? There must be someone Faceless Men!" Arianne said.
"Uh, even Citadel thought Maegor committed suicide before, how did you..."
Arianne interrupted him: "Now Citadel has reversed the case for Maegor Yes, "Death God's List" was also written by Walgrave. Maegor died at the hands of the Faceless Men, just announced by Citadel."
"Where's Quentyn Fireball?" asked dwarf again.
Quentyn Ball, one of the two most important generals under the Blackfyre Daemon (the other being Aegor Bittersteel), died at the hands of the archer before the great decisive battle, at the river's edge.
The problem is, Quentyn is leading the army to the battlefield, surrounded by oneself people, there are no enemies around, not even the one who killed him.
"Citadel thinks it's reasonable for the Faceless Men to replace one of Quentyn Fireball's subordinates," Arianne said.
"It's more reasonable than dying at the hands of an unknown archer before, but..." dwarf's face twisted.
Myr tenor suddenly said: "Archmaester Walgrave also has a play called Brynden that doesn't exist.
Archmaester believes that Duke Bloodraven Brynden was killed before the Blackfyre rebellion. Faceless Men replaced, Daemon Blackfyre and his two sons were also killed by Faceless Men."
"It's totally absurd to deny the existence of Brynden Rivers." dwarf shook his head repeatedly.