British writer

The sun is about to set.

The sun was glowing red, casting a whole curtain of light on the ground.

Pankhurst was "driven away".

But the women who had surrounded the Mirror office came back to discuss the poem in a friendly, harmonious atmosphere, a bit like a society or a club.

"Huh~~~"

Lu Shi let out a long breath, feeling that his thoughts were finally over.

He returns to the office.

Scott hurried forward and gave him a big bear hug.

"sharp!"

After the hug, he even punched Lu Shi's shoulder obsessively, and asked in a low voice: "How did you come up with the idea? Those tricks just now, including fish and chips and providing drinking water, are really insidious. La~"

Lu Shi blinked mysteriously,

"Mainly because Pankhurst's base is in Manchester."

Scott nodded knowingly,

This kind of gathering requires very high levels of organization.

People who are brought in temporarily will inevitably be inconsistent, and naturally it is easy to open the gap with a little trick.

Scott admired him in his heart, but showed a depressed expression. He looked at his pocket watch and said, "I'm afraid the sales volume of "Mirror" is not good today. You will suffer a big loss~"

Lu Shi laughed loudly,

"Why do I hear you gloating about your misfortune?"

This is undoubtedly a joke.

Scott laughed too.

Lu Shi lowered his head and thought for a moment, then asked the other party: "The difference between the original work and the comics of "Jane Eyre" has to be resolved eventually. Tell me, do we need to conduct interviews with Miss Margarita and Mr. Mondrian? "

Scott was puzzled;

"What is an 'interview'?"

Lu Shi followed the modern definition and explained it.

Scott frowned,

"I understand. What you mean is to publish the interview transcript directly into the newspaper without modification. But what are the advantages of doing this? It is true that directly publishing the interview transcript can increase the authenticity, but readers must believe it!"

Modern talk shows emerged on radio and television.

Because there are pictures and sounds, the situational language in the environment can be conveyed, and through impromptu interviews with interviewees in the form of questions and answers, the listeners or viewers can gain an immersive sense of the scene, enhancing the authenticity and credibility of the news. sex.

Text does not have this characteristic.

When readers read, they will definitely feel subconsciously that those dialogues have been edited, polished and processed.

Lu Shi pondered,

"You should still give it a try. Directly posting the original interview transcript will be more authentic."

Scott thought about it and felt that there was no need to refute.

Anyway, this kind of article will not have a big impact on the sales of "Mirror". It doesn't matter if it fails, but it is better if it succeeds.

Moreover, Lu Shi is the boss, and the people below must listen to him.

Scott said: "Then you should hurry up and arrange for the reporter. It is not far away from the time to deliver the edition to the printing house. I also have to go back to the office of the Manchester Guardian. Today, the Mirror was criticized by feminists. The matter of the siege will definitely be reported tomorrow."

Lu Shi nodded,

"Then I'll trouble you."

After saying that, he watched Scott leave.

After that, Lu Shi assigned tasks to his reporters and editors, got a series of prepared interview questions, and returned to the office.

Margarita is waiting.

Her Royal Highness spread the gender edition of today's "Mirror" on the table and copied the song "Getting Married".

When she heard the door open, she immediately turned around.

"Professor Lu."

Lu Shi nodded to her,

"You have an interview with Mr. Mondrian in an hour."

Margarita said "hmm\

,"For some reason, her mood didn't look very high.

Lu Shi couldn't help but worry,

"What's wrong?"

Margarita sighed, opening and closing her mouth without making a single sound, as if she hadn't thought about how to speak.

After about half a minute, she said: "I didn't expect them to be like this."

Lu Shi: "..."

I don’t know how to comfort the other person.

After all, Her Royal Highness is just a flower in the greenhouse. She has never seen the cruelty of some struggles, so she thought she was just treating guests to dinner.

Moreover, she did not expect that she would get into trouble.

She asked: "Am I wrong?"

This question is even more unanswerable.

Lu Shi was speechless for a while.

Seeing that he was silent, Margarita suddenly laughed out loud, blinked, and asked in a playful tone: "Professor Lu, you must think I'm a little naive, right? It doesn't matter, just answer the truth." "

Lu Shi shook his head,

"That's impossible. How can it be 'a little' childish? That's 'very' childish."

Margarita has black lines all over her head,

￣□￣｜｜

She could clearly feel that Lu Shi was speaking from his heart, but his relaxed tone made her unable to get angry.

She asked again: "Do you think Ms. Pankhurst is childish?"

Lu Shi waved his hands repeatedly,

"Don't dare to say such nonsense!"

"puff!"

Margarita smiled even wider.

She complained: "Professor Lu, it turns out that you are also afraid of people~"

Lu Shi touched his nose.

"Can that be called scary?"

He just believes that not everything can trigger the butterfly effect like being a copycat. The development of major events requires historical opportunities and historical processes. At the same time, quantitative changes must lead to qualitative changes.

But now is not the time for a qualitative change.

Lu Shi decided to avoid the topic for the time being.

"Don't talk about this."

Margarita said "hmm", then turned her eyes to the poem she had copied, and murmured:

"

‘Marry someone full of kindness.’

(Marry a kind person)

…

"

Such as complaining, crying and admiration.

Lu Shi's whole body went numb after hearing this.

This song "Getting Married" actually comes from the Indian female poet Rupi Kaur. Among them, the classic love concept of equality and independence is very classic and is still regarded as a standard.

In fact, Lu Shi went through a lot of weighing when choosing this poem.

As a Chinese, the first thing he thought of was "To the Oak\

,"The view of love expressed by the poet Shu Ting in this poem is also equality, mutual assistance, and mutual independence, rather than clinging, dependence, and subordination. The sentence "I must be a kapok near you, as the image of a tree Stand with You” inspired many people.

But the problem is that there is no kapok in the UK...

Poetry is a literary genre that requires a lot of context and context. To create a kapok, you also have to be responsible for popularizing science. Just thinking about it makes your head ache.

If it is adapted, the charm will be insufficient.

Moreover, "To the Oak" is a poem of the Hazy School, and many of its intentions are implicit, so it is unavoidable that it is not adapted to the British climate.

Lu Shi finally chose "Marrying a Man\

,"First, because this poem is written in English, there will be no problem with rhyming;

The second reason is that it is more direct than "To the Oak", but restrained enough.

Of course, implicitness is also a matter of contrast. After all, some European feminist poets have begun to write "Ode to Yin". Compared with this, "Married" is simply a "climbing flower in the sky", pure and flawless.

Lu Shi said: "I just write casually."

Margarita looked at him and said,

"Really casual?"

She always felt that Professor Lu liked women with independent personalities, just like her.

Lu Shi shook his head,

"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's take a look at the interview questions. It requires some preparation."

Margarita said: "Then I will write now."

Lu Shi quickly stopped him: "Don't write it! You must answer this interview live, otherwise it will be meaningless."

Although Margarita was puzzled, she didn’t ask any more questions in the end.

She focused her attention on those issues.

…

the next day,

early morning.

Daily Telegraph headquarters, editor's office.

John Le Sage was facing a mirror, groping with his left hand on his cheek, slowly looking for the stubble that had not been shaved off.

From time to time, he took out the razor from the water glass next to him and trimmed it a little.

There was a knock on the door outside,

"Editor-in-Chief?"

Saatchi threw the razor back into the water glass with a "dang" sound.

He wiped his face with a towel and said, "Come in."

The clerk pushed open the door and entered.

"Editor-in-Chief."

He bowed deeply and handed over the form in his hand.

Sage read carefully,

For a long time, he showed an expression of "Sure enough," and said: "Under the circumstances yesterday, "Mirror" still sold more than 90,000 copies? Is this statistic accurate?"

The clerk looked embarrassed.

"this……"

Seeing him like this, Sachi still didn't understand.

He raised his eyebrows slightly,

"What? We haven't found a suitable source of information within the Mirror?"

The shopping mall is like a battlefield,

It is the most normal method for competing newspapers to plant spies for each other.

The clerk said: "The Mirror is very strange. It is obviously a brand new team composed of members of the Manchester Guardian, The Scotsman and the University of London Press, but it is extremely united."

"snort……"

Sage snorted coldly from his nose.

He stretched,

"Then how do you calculate your data? Is it a carriage transporting goods?"

The clerk nodded,

"right."

Saatchi chuckled and complained: "The land police are smart and may use means such as empty carriages to deceive other peers. However, considering that the sales volume of "Mirror" has always been very good, he should not bother to use it. That kind of approach.”

The clerk didn't respond, but he agreed with this point of view.

The so-called "one force can defeat ten societies\

,"With the "Mirror"'s current sales volume, there is no need to play tricks, just go big.

Saatchi said: "From this point of view, we will never be able to surpass the Mirror in terms of tabloids. Therefore, if you want to publish a supplement or supplement, you still have to consider a highly professional one, similar to the Financial Times. "

He frowned and thought for a while,

"By the way, is "Guns, Germs, and Steel" almost finished?"

The clerk nodded,

"Many readers have written letters, hoping that our newspaper can continue to publish similar columns."

Lu Shi's "Guns, Germs and Steel" was serialized in the form of columns in the Manchester Guardian and the Daily Telegraph at the same time. The former was in days and the latter was in weeks.

This meant it took seven times longer for the Daily Telegraph series to end.

But this also has its advantages. After all, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is so professional that one article a week will actually help readers digest it.

Sachi pondered,

"Perhaps, we can consider this direction."

The clerk lowered his head and said nothing.

He doesn't dare to talk nonsense or make rash suggestions in front of his boss.

After a while, Saatchi shook his head to clear all the thoughts in his mind, and then said: "Did you buy today's "The Times"? I want to see how Buckle reported yesterday's events. of."

The clerk took out The Times,

"That's the headline."

The title of the article is "The siege may become a turning point for the collapse of the Mirror's positive image."

Because it is the mouthpiece of the Conservative Party, it does not even dare to mention "feminism" in the title.

Sage began to read,

Half a minute later, he couldn't help but shake his head, thinking that Bucker really couldn't fart well.

The whole article was a frenzied response to the Mirror, and it also mentioned Pankhurst, but kept a secret about Pankhurst's background, and his pedantic and petty attitude was clearly visible.

Thatch tossed The Times aside;

"waste time!"

He looked at the clerk,

"What about the Mirror? Did they report it themselves?"

The clerk immediately replied: "The Mirror didn't mention anything about yesterday's incident, but it published an article with a very unique format. The whole article looked a bit like a tribute to the two authors of the "Jane Eyre" comic. Interview transcript.”

Saatchi became interested and took over the Mirror.

That article is indeed unique, even the title is concise and concise——

"Interview".

There is only one word.

The subtitle is "The Two Authors of \u003cJane Eyre\u003e Comics".

The writing is just as the clerk said, similar to an interview transcript.

…

Reporter: Miss Margarita, Mr. Mondrian, hello. The topic we want to talk about today is about the original comics and novels of "Jane Eyre".

Mondrian: Hello.

Margarita: Um...hello?

…

After reading this part of the greeting between the two parties, Sa Qi couldn't help but mutter: "Lu Shi, you can always come up with some new tricks for me."

He continued to look behind him.

The reporters’ questions were generally sharp. They started with “adaptation” and slowly introduced a new concept——

Second creation.

Sachi nodded slightly,

"That's a well-made word."

Further down the article, Margarita expressed her view that secondary creation is okay, but it must not discredit or vilify the characters, and it cannot spread outward from the original plot.

Sachi couldn't help but fall into deep thought,

"interesting."

The clerk next to him asked in confusion: "Editor-in-Chief, I can understand that you can't discredit or vilify the characters. But why can't it spread out from the original plot? Didn't you already say 'secondary creation'?"

Saatchi laughed and said: "Because that will build a wall invisibly and block the way of the original author."

The clerk was confused,

"this……"

Said he didn't understand.

Saatchi said: "Take the Sherlock Holmes series as an example. If someone made a second creation in the gap between "The Final Case" and "The Empty House" and it was a big success, then Dr. Doyle could write another ?"

The clerk understood this time,

"I see."

Sachi spread his hands,

"Of course, "Jane Eyre" does not have this problem, because Ms. Charlotte Bronte has passed away long ago. But even so, the concepts of 'adaptation' and 'secondary creation' proposed by Miss Margarita are still worthwhile discussed.”

Sage glanced at Margarita's full name again.

Margarita Victoria Feodor Leopoldina,

Obviously, he has a strong aristocratic bloodline.

Saatchi complained in a low voice: "I have to admit that these nobles are not all empty-headed mascots of the House of Lords."

The clerk almost laughed out loud after hearing this, trying hard to hold back his laughter with a straight face.

Sachi glared at him.

"Is it funny?"

The clerk's face instantly turned pale and his smile disappeared.

Saatchi laughed "hehehe" and said: "What is really noteworthy is this entire page. The interview...is this a path opened by Lu Shixin? It is indeed more authentic than ordinary articles."

He continued to look back,

Suddenly, his eyes widened with an incomprehensible expression.

"This is……"

The clerk followed his gaze and said,

——

Mondrian: Actually, my cartoon drawing method was influenced by Professor Lu from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mondrian: He told me how to use the grid.

Mondrian: He was also the one who told me that I can use the lens of a camera to think about comics techniques to guide readers.

…

Saatchi:? ? ?

"So, Lu Shi still knows how to paint?!"

This special cat is an oriental fairy who can somersault thousands of miles! ?