I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 176 A Tale of Two Chapters

"Burt Publishing House, a subsidiary of North Comprehensive Publishing House, is mainly engaged in the publishing of traditional books and popular novels, and has published famous works...etc."

Ending the communication with the new editor-in-chief of Burt Press, Carol,
Ji Zhuo searched for some information about Burt Publishing House that he had known before.

Burt Publishing House is a subsidiary of another comprehensive publishing house, which is equivalent to the parent company and subsidiary companies. They are related but relatively independent.

North Comprehensive Publishing House is mainly engaged in the professional publishing of natural science and technical journals, professional books, academic papers, etc., and has published many famous professional books.

Its publishing method is mainly to make drafts with scientific research experts and technology experts around the world, and only a small number of traditional books and literary works exist.

It can be regarded as a first-class publishing house in Europe, with a good influence.

And Burt Publishing House, a subsidiary of North Publishing House, will have a lot of hips,

Some time ago, when traditional publications and popular novels were popular,
Although its influence is not as good as that of its parent company, North Publishing House has a large market share in traditional serious works and popular novels in Europe.

In recent years, I don't know whether it is due to the lack of good book submissions or market reasons, Burt Publishing House has been sluggish.

Although the information found by search engines does not directly mention this point,
But Ji Zhuo can still see it after looking carefully... because the most recent one of the famous publications listed by Bert Publishing House was also four years ago.

I searched through the information carefully.
Ji Zhuo had a general understanding of the current situation of Bert Publishing House,
How should I put it, die, you can't die, after all, a lean camel is bigger than a horse.

Just relying on the continuous sales of Burt Press's famous published works before, Burt Press can keep alive.

But in fact, it is true that the market share has been shrinking over the years.

And probably because of this reason, the editor-in-chief of Burt Publishing House changed five in four years...

Hmm... If you count Carol who just took office, there should be more.

sitting in front of the computer,

Looking at the information he found, Ji Zhuo fell into deep thought.

This publishing house seems to be sluggish. It seems to be a good thing. After all, there are fewer resources, and there are fewer resources that can be used for his novels...

But I'm afraid that this publishing house is desperate... After all, it is backed by a big publishing house.

Ji Zhuo looked at the information again,

Pause, forget it, let's talk about it later.

Anyway, this is a serious work of mine,
For a serious work by a newcomer, shouldn't the sales be high in the early stage?
After turning off the computer, Ji Zhuo got up and went out to look for food.

……

Europa.

Burt Press, Office of the Editor.

The door was ajar, and Carol sat behind the desk, flipping through the manuscript of "The Seven Sins" on the computer,

He really likes this work, and at the same time believes that signing this work will allow him to secure his current position.

Before he jumped ship to Burt Press, several unlucky people had left his position.

None of them was as lucky as him, and they could encounter a good book of "Seven Sins" at this time.

If the author hadn't submitted another manuscript to Burt Publishing House, he was ready to take the initiative to contact the author through the previous submission email.

He had high hopes for the book.

I don't have too many extravagant expectations for the early sales of this book, after all, it is a serious novel.

But for the award of this book, he believes that relying on the quality of the book itself and the operation of Burt Publishing House, it is really not enough, and with the help of North Comprehensive Publishing House,
This book is bound to win some big awards.

A newcomer author won a series of important awards with his first serious work!
Genius writer!What a great way to advertise.

And when the award is won, the sales are a matter of course.
Anyway, Carroll believes that most people who buy serious works do so to fill their bookshelves.

Rather than really liking this work like him.

of course,

The premise of all this is that the quality of this book is good enough.

How about the quality of this book?

Carol just thought it was too good. From the text to the content to the subject matter, the sophisticated and wonderful text couldn't tell that this was an unknown writer before.

Otherwise, why would he like it so much.

"Mr. Carroll, that contract has been written to your specifications."

At this time, the door of the house was knocked, and an employee from the legal department walked in.

"Send it to my email."

Carol responded, and the man left again.

Turning back again, Carol looked at the computer screen again,

Looking at the two chapters of "Seven Sins" submitted by the author ABC from the beginning,
Although he has read it once or twice, he still enjoys watching it again now, and can't help but immerse himself in the text description,

It seems that every time I watch it, I can have some new experience,
In gluttony,

The protagonist is the bottom of a war-torn small country, a night stall owner.

He sold food, but ended up starving to death on the way home.

And the name of the protagonist Hal, when read for the second time,
After reading it several times, I found that the pronunciation of 'Hal' is very similar to that of 'Hunger'.

The protagonist of the gluttony chapter is called hunger. After reading the whole story and realizing this, Carol's scalp suddenly felt a little numb.

There was an indescribable shock in my heart, and I couldn't help but think of the title of this book again.

"The Lord said: Those who believe in Me will not fall into hell, but will go straight to heaven."

"Whoever believes in me, can get bread and milk, beauty and money, and enjoy eternal bliss——Satan."

Looking back at the content of this introduction, there is an indescribable feeling.

Carol basked in the feeling,
Re-watched the chapter on gluttony.

In the Chapter of Gluttony, the protagonist Hal barely manages to make ends meet by selling a kind of local food that fills his stomach at night.

The people who came to his booth were already hungry people, they were greedy and gobbled up the food Hal sold them,
I can't wait to swallow the bread wrapped in vegetables in one bite,

The book describes that when there are the most people in front of Zai Hal's booth, every customer is either squatting on the ground or standing on the side of the road,
The sight of chowing down on toast wrapped in veggies... the sight is stunning.

The author described it as like throwing a piece of food into a pond full of sardines, like a drop of honey falling in front of an ant nest.

However, after returning home from a stall in the middle of the night, Hal's life encountered a change. When his child was alone at home,

It fell out of the window which had no glass but was covered with rotting plastic and fell down the stairs.

It wasn't until Hal came home that he heard his child's cry for help in the night.

At the time, his wife was still working all night in another laundry factory.

This change tore up the already fragile life of the Hal family.

After the overwhelmed Hal's wife came back and learned the news, she went crazy... The book describes,

Hal's wife dug up a piece of dirty soil from the ground, used it as a dish, and brought it into the kitchen,
After a while of cooking, the almost unchanged soil was put on Hal's dinner plate. It was a cracked but not broken plate, which Hal picked up.

Hal looked at his wife who told him to eat, grabbed a piece of soil from the dinner plate, put it in his mouth, and chewed carefully...

And Hal,
It is to take the child who fell from upstairs to the ground for a day to the only clinic in this area.

Under Hal's begging, the doctor in the clinic promised him to treat his child, but he needed a thousand dollars.

And the author's later description implies that it is not only Hal's wife who is crazy, but also Hal.

Hal's child should have died a long time ago, when he fell from upstairs.

Hal just created an unattainable goal for himself in the illusion-one thousand dollars, and completely attributed the responsibility of not being able to save the child to himself.

Later, when Hal came home late at night from the stall,
Once passing by the clinic, Hal told the doctor at the clinic that he would soon make up a thousand dollars for him.

The doctor in the clinic seems to scold him, but the description in the book starts from Hal’s point of view, and it is written that the doctor in the clinic is reprimanding the nurses in the clinic,
The nurse said, "Doctor, customers are complaining about the bad smell in front of the clinic."

The doctor scolded: "Can't you throw it away?"

You can see it after looking carefully. It probably says that the dead body of Hal's child or someone else was thrown at the door of the clinic.

but,

It is precisely because Hal has to earn a thousand dollars that there is a following story.

In order to save more money by selling at night stalls, Hal began to deduct his own food,

He calculated carefully, just to get more food to sell,
He even added some earth to the water to fill his stomach, and took a sip from time to time.

Although the stall he set up sells some full-bodied food,
He also wanted to 'gluttonize' like everyone else in his stall,
But the food on his grill never belonged to him.

As described in the text,

The stove was roasting those vegetables and bread, and Hal was also roasting.

In the end, nature is a tragedy.

Hal starved to death on the way home,
He fell to the ground, his eyes were dimmed and he was hallucinating,
Treat the soil on the ground as food, a 'gluttony',
The description of this paragraph in the book is very careful, and it describes how Hal overeats, how he gorges, and eats the food in his fantasy and the soil in reality without stopping.

until the last hour of death,
Hal took out the money he had saved these days in his pocket again, counted it over and over again,

The total is only $66, which is far from the goal of 1000 yuan.

But Hal laughed after counting, as if he had enough money,
In this smile, Hal died.

At the end of the article, only a sentence was written, "The nurses at Eric's clinic threw the smelly things at the clinic's entrance farther away, and there was no smell at the clinic's entrance."

This is the end of the first chapter of the story.

The whole story is carried out in depression, and the depressed people seem to be out of breath.

This is a depressing story, not as impassioned as the protagonist of other popular novels.

As a reader, it seems that there are many plot developments that can be thought of to get Hal out of trouble,

But brought into Hal's perspective, only deep despair remains.

It's like surrounded by endless high walls, no matter how you look up, you can't see the end of despair.

Carroll was at another publishing house when she read this first chapter for the first time.

On the night after reading it, Carol had a nightmare.

In the nightmare, he seemed to be Hal, but he was helpless as a bystander, he could only watch Hal step into the predetermined death,
Finally, he woke up from the dream in a cold sweat.

After reading the first chapter of "The Seven Sins",

Carol thought it was an excellent book,

This article is called Gluttony, which is a great name.

Then after jumping to Burt Press,
This is even more so after reading the second chapter after "Seven Sins".

The protagonist of the lust chapter is a low-level prostitute in a country in America, California,

An old, sick prostitute, even the name 'Senashth' can be found to sound close to 'aging' twice.

Let Carroll, a reader, feel the author's black humor, and then it is accompanied by a deep sense of depression.

Senna, the protagonist in the chapter of lust, got sick and was already waiting to die.

Senna also has a roommate who is also a prostitute, but Senna is young, it seems like Senna was young,
The plot unfolds in a brief conversation between Senna and the prostitute Belinda who lives with her,

Afterwards, Belinda had another guest, a director of a private orphanage in a slum who liked to brag about his achievements and future dreams with low-level prostitutes, a middle-aged man with a big belly,

And the book also said that Sai Na was born by a prostitute, but the head of the private welfare home who boasted about her achievements obviously didn't care about Sai Na.
This point is not deliberately mentioned in the article, but as a reader, Carroll can easily think of it.

In the plot,
In this ostentatious life concerto,

Lying on the dilapidated sofa, Senna, who was already very weak, welcomed another guest,
Before the knock on the door sounded, the book described that some sunlight shone through the window,
Maybe it's a metaphor.

Senna turned her head to look, but there was a knock on the door first.

The person outside the door came in. He was a young man who came out of desire and was ashamed of his own desire. His body was full of traces of youth.

At first Senna thought that this young man who was ashamed of his own desire came for Belinda,
Belinda's exaggerated screams are always easy to attract customers.

But the shamed young man handed over the money to Senna.

At the beginning, Sena naturally refused with a smile. She was ill, and she thought that she would not know that she, an aging prostitute, would become her customer after she got ill.

But the young man said he didn't mind,

It turned out that this young man was the resident downstairs of Sai Na.

I saw her many times when the young man was still in his teens, and Senna was only in her early thirties, when her youth had not faded.

He is fascinated by her body, this is a very simple desire,
Even without mixing anything else, in the text, the author even writes this desire very cleanly.

Even Carol, a reader, felt the simplicity of this desire.

In the article, this simple desire has lasted for a long time, until now,

And the 26 dollars that the young man handed to Senna was his first week's salary.

At last,
Senna naturally had sex with this young man, and at the same time, she didn't refuse the twenty dollars.

The whole process was just spent in some conversations between Senna and this young man,

The book describes that the sun outside the window drilled out of the clouds, and the sunlight through the window scattered on the body,

Senna's golden hair reflected the sunlight, and the beads of sweat on her forehead reflected the window of the living room next to her,

In the eyes, each other is reflected.

The description in this paragraph actually makes people feel holy and solemn,
Or have primitive desires, but there is no dirty.

And as a reader... When Carol read this paragraph, following the description in the text, he felt very peaceful inside.

In the text,

The young man said he had seen Senna at various times.

Senna fell for this, that was when she was still young,
Now through the description in the young man's mouth, it seems to reappear in front of Senna.

this article,
A good chunk of time is spent in dialogue with each other.

In this calming description,
The author wrote that the sun outside the window was covered by clouds again,

The young man put on his clothes again and left, while Senna lay down on the dilapidated sofa again.

The young man said he would be there next week and hoped Senna would wait for him.

Senna agreed.
But it didn't wait for the young man to come again.

At the end of the chapter write,
Senna, when the sun came out of the dark clouds again, and the sun swayed on the dilapidated sofa in the house,
Senna turned her head to look, and then died on the dilapidated sofa.

(End of this chapter)