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Chapter 17 The scenery when the soul is enlightened-Valklahoma Amphitheater

1. Devotion to art Carl finally followed the only road in front of him to art and was hired by art.The Oklahoma Playhouse has endless venues, and countless recruiting teams travel non-stop to recruit workers.Anyone who wants to be an artist can sign up immediately.What is described here is the real situation of art.Art is everywhere, its doors are open to everyone, but people ignore it, and individual people are hesitant to join it; only a desperate person like Karl will go straight to it with eagerness The goal, so the head of the personnel department of the recruitment team said that his attitude was "very correct."However, Karl took the longest time to review when he was hired. Perhaps because he wanted to go to art with all his heart, art tested him repeatedly.How difficult it is to answer that kind of question-and-answer test that comes and goes and hits the essence!But he finally passed the test smoothly, and art does not reject everyone.

The farewell scene is carnival.It seemed that all the terrible restrictions disappeared, and the gloomy mood gradually became clear.Among the proletarians who had lost everything, Karl even met his former colleagues at the Western Hotel.Yes, these tortured souls are finally saying goodbye to the secular world.Are they going to heaven, or are they going to hell?No one can answer this question.The "force of nature" approached them again.It is so close; it surges and sweeps away everything, as if to engulf people.This is America, the unconquerable America that Karl felt, and the America that forced him to the hometown of art with its super rationality.It had nurtured the spirit of the young man in an experienced way, and now it accompanied him on the road, to the place where heaven and hell meet, to perform miracles that have never been done before.Why bid farewell to the world?Because everything outside will become his own; because in fact, the front of the train is the infinitely expanding human mind.All sorrows and tears, invisible love and visible cruelty, fleeting joys and long-lasting despair, useless kindness and useful meanness, friendship and betrayal, beauty and ugliness, everything will converge in that darkness Premises.

Although the whole "America" ​​has a strong taste of fate, if you experience it deeply, you will feel that the "fate" here has obvious initiative and seems to be the product of rebellion. One day it will be carried out by the protagonist himself. Decide to create. July 11, 1997, Yingcai Garden
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