The main framework of this plot has been written down, 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 because I wanted to find some details about poverty and hunger. After all, although my family conditions were not very good when I was a child, I still

It's just embarrassment, not to the level of hunger and poverty. If you want to write it truthfully, you need to draw nourishment from various reportages, news interviews, and biographies. Well, the remaining reference materials will be mentioned later.

While reading "Down and Out in Paris and London", I read the true story of the man who thought he was worshiping a saint, but turned out to be a prostitute, but actually got lucky and did not starve to death. My first reaction was, Gosh, this is so supernatural.

It feels weird, a kind of terrifying feeling. If this is coupled with the problem of the prostitute itself, and the subsequent bad luck, wouldn't it be a standard story of a mysterious world?

When I deliberately reproduced this plot and wrote it, most readers also had the same idea that there must be something wrong with it, just like me.

And this is also in line with my desire to combine the real events in history with the extraordinary system, so as to achieve the purpose of writing with illusions in the truth, and reality with illusions. This has been the case since the beginning of Mystery, but at that time, maybe

The character prototype was mentioned in time, or history that everyone was familiar with was used, such as the London Smog Incident, so no one said anything.

At first, I just used the story of worshiping a prostitute as a reference material, without any idea of ​​using it. Until I refined the settings related to the outer gods and looked up the etymology of Lilith, I saw a piece of information:

In the legend of Syria, there are seven spirits of lust, both male and female. One female is named Lilith, one is male named Lilin, and the remaining five are also named lixxx. They can make love with people in dreams.

, which makes people exhausted and tortured. Later, because of possessiveness, they will regard themselves as the victim's wife or husband, and then harm the other half out of jealousy - the source is "The Witcher: A History of Horrors" page 107

Seeing this, my thoughts are:

Dream intercourse, lust, possessiveness, jealousy... Mother Tree, you still say that she is not yours!

After adding the concept of the spirit of lust and the tree spirit as the path to the mother tree in Sequence 5, I also had inspiration on how to deal with the material of worshiping prostitutes, and ideas on 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 tell where it came from, but I thought it was wrong. People would think I made it up. Wouldn't it be equivalent to plagiarizing other people's lives?

What is needed is to let people see directly where this comes from. The first one can pay tribute clearly and will not be misunderstood. The second one can allow readers to discover that this is a real historical event. It is horrifying to think about it. This is in line with the purpose of my writing.

Match.

Based on this idea, I tried my best to reproduce the story about worshiping a prostitute as it is, and also introduced the subsequent plot where the wife or lover died due to the spirit of lust, and I was almost killed.

My original plan was to write down the sequence of the mother tree, mention the purpose of creation without spoiling it, and then also mark the source. As a result, some readers were troubled.

As for Charlie being kept by a rich woman and getting a diamond necklace, it actually has nothing to do with "Down and Out in Paris and London". Although there are similar plots in it, it ended with the rich woman calling the police and arresting her after the diamond necklace was stolen.

I wrote this plot, firstly, to play on the popular "rich woman, hungry, hungry" meme, secondly, I need to give Charlie a lover, otherwise I won't be able to arouse the jealousy of the spirit of lust, and thirdly, uh, you don't have

Do you see? The core of this paragraph is essentially Maupassant's "The Necklace". He suffered a lot for a false thing, and finally discovered the false and ironic core. Just because it is "The Necklace", I used a diamond necklace.

Instead of changing it to other valuables, distinguish it from "Down and Out in Paris and London".

By the way, "Orla" written by Maupassant in his later years really has the flavor of the ravings of a mental patient. If he hadn't been born earlier than Ai Craftsman, I would have doubted whether he was suffering from Cthulhu.

The name Charlie also comes from "Down and Out in Paris and London", but it's not the person who worships the prostitute, but another one. Because I like his tone, tone and enthusiasm, so I just adopted his style, not the specifics.

The content, sentences, and of course, in order for everyone to see it, I also added the feature of short hands.

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 and not enough details. It cannot satisfy my idea of ​​writing "No Country for Old Men" until I follow up on other materials.

I saw the definition of "street academic beauty", saw the introduction of many people selling fake pornographic postcards, and saw the records of the police cracking down on photographers and underground print dealers, so I decided to use this material and dig into it.

The story behind it extends my personal speculation and thoughts.

Many people refer to "Down and Out in Paris and London", but they may not remember what Orwell said at the end of the first part: "If anyone has time, it would be interesting to write a biography of one of these people.

”.

I personally will not overestimate my ability to write biographies of silhouettes of characters in literary classics. I just use this shell to tell my own story and carry more ideas.

The other details used are real details that show hunger and poverty. I won’t go into details. By the way, the detail of slapping the cheeks to create a rosy feeling was originally planned to correspond to a certain detail in another book.

Yes, that way there is a sense of contrast and irony, but there is no natural shift in the character's perspective that Tarot can bring, so I can only give up regretfully.

The detail is: During the Nazi period, a certain duke was deceived by a swindler and died of taking arsenic-containing medicine for a long time. His purpose was to make his skin whiter.

This is a very good contrast to the poor people who rely on patting their cheeks to create a rosy look.

Well, the source should be "Impressions of Paris", which talks about the emergence and development of Impressionism. There are also many interesting historical details about people in it, which may be used later.

Also, a character prototype from "Down and Out in Paris and London" will probably be used later. The original text is only a short sentence, but I think there are many, many stories behind it, poignant and emotional stories that will be written when it is finished.

Let me tell you which one it is.

My personal habit is to directly quote the original sentence or a slightly modified sentence, and mark the end of the chapter directly. If I borrow character prototypes, object prototypes and historical events, I will mention them in the final summary of each part. Otherwise,

If you really want to mark them all, some chapters can be marked as many as ten or twenty.

After all, every dish and wine name, legend, city detail, magic ceremony, folk culture, customs and customs that have appeared so far has its origin.

For example, Fool's Instrument, Paris was really full of fun people at that time.

For example, the source of the story about being willing to marry a condemned prisoner to get him pardoned is on page 11 of "The History of the Café de Paris". It also mentions that although a criminal was proposed to, he saw that the other party was ugly, so he said to the executioner, "Brother,

Hang me quickly! Please", a real case of Yan Gou dying because of looking at his face.

Well, many of the legends and proverbs in the first part come from the work "Montaillou". It is the product of studying the interrogation records left by a certain pope. It truly shows the humanistic customs and customs of the village of Montaillou in southern France.

The details of life, the curate is also a character prototype taken from it, that’s why I say you French people are so romantic!

When summarizing the first part, I originally wanted to mention "Montailyo", but because I was away from home, using my mobile phone to code words, and in a hurry, I ended up missing it. What I wanted to say at that time was, friends, the first part

Many things are not jokes. For example, the Nine Cows Pulling the Coffin is really not a joke on Brother Dong’s Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin. It is a real historical legend in the Montailau area. Human imagination sometimes resembles it.

Finally, let’s briefly list the reference materials:

"Montailyou"

"Golden Bough"

"Down and Out in Paris and London"

"Impression of Paris"

The Witcher: A History of Fear

"The History of Parisian Cafés"

"Les Miserables"

Balzac's "The Peasant" and "Patro Goriot"

"Orla"

"The Monarch and the Contractor"

"The History of France in Desserts"

"The Masses in the French Revolution"

"From Dawn to Decline: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1,500 to the Present"

The French People: A History of Four Periods and Five Regions

"French Food Tour"

Catacombs: The Underground History of Paris

"An American in Paris"

"History of the French Labor Movement"

"The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune"

"The History of France in French Desserts"

"Paris, Capital of the 19th Century"

"Underground Literature in France during the Old Regime"

"Victorian Thrillers"

"The Paris Commune: The World's First Proletarian Power"

"How much money was worth in the past"

"Workers' Revolt in Lyon, France"

"Paris, London, and New York and the Imagination of Urban Population in the Nineteenth Century"

"History of the French Rural Areas"

"A History of French Literary Men"

"The Women Who Light Up Paris"

"Wicca Magic"

"A Guide to Western Occultism"

"The Complete Book of Tarot"

"When the Occult Knocks on the Door"

"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 don’t mention it deliberately again, the sources should be in the above books, lol.

Finally, since a single chapter has been released, how can I not ask for monthly tickets or subscriptions?
Chapter completed!