Chapter 67 Hollow Horror—Brilliant Revisited

Interpretation of "Josephine the Singer or the Nation of Mice" Josephine - Inspiration We (audience, opposition, little girl, etc.) - reason Music - Ultimate Beauty, Eternal or Nothing Josephine's Whistle - Embodying Music's Earthly Six (Conscious) Our whistles - earthly sounds without music (unconscious) The creative process - conflict and dependence, breakthrough and tolerance between us and Josephine Us and Josephine Josephine is a miracle among us, our only window into eternal music.Music has long since disappeared from the world we live in, and we are used to living hard, to a world where there is no music but whistling whistling.Day after day, our aging bodies suffer.Suddenly one day Josephine burst forth from among us, bringing her wonderful singing--an inimitable whistle--to us.We are unfamiliar with this non-musical singing, which reminds us of heavenly hymns we have never heard before, but which is actually the whistle we know every day.We know it's not music, yet everyone without exception is drawn to it; it has more influence among us than anything else on earth.What connects us to Josephine's singing is a mysterious emotion that cannot be uttered, but everyone can feel it.As long as we sit across from this singer and watch her expression when she sings, our hearts will be overwhelmed.She whistled the same way we usually whistle; what moved us deeply was her attitude towards singing, and the state of her singing.Who else can play the whistle of the earth for the song of angels as she does?She is uniquely one to do so.Although we are quite bewildered by this voice that always brings us novelty, Josephine gave us a chance. Through her agile whistle, we feel that our body and mind are sublimating to heaven.She holds us in awe, and that's enough.

In a world without music, we believe in music; in a world without miracles, we believe in miracles.This seems strange, and no one can explain the reason for this, which probably comes from a kind of inheritance.And Josephine is the embodiment of music and miracles.We love Josephine, but we don't understand her singing, because her singing is incomprehensible, it is far from what we expect from music.But sitting in front of her and watching her play, our senses are aroused; the feeling cannot be described, there is both music and our daily suffering, they are mixed together and cannot be distinguished.When we listen, we have only silence, and in silence we enjoy the long-awaited peace of heaven.Admittedly this feeling is not understanding.Even without understanding, we gather around her to hear her whistle in order to bask in that feeling; this becomes the purpose of our lives and the basis of her enormous influence.So we need Josephine, we cannot live without her for a day; she is the only one who connects us to music.

It would be wrong to say that we therefore regard Josephine as a perfect idol.We know everything about Josephine: her moody, childlike character; her frail, vulnerable constitution;We also know that she fundamentally despises us.For these reasons, the general attitude of our people towards her is to regard her as a delicate child.We always try to accommodate her demands while being protective like parents.Given that she is our protected child, we certainly don't laugh at her weaknesses.Not to laugh at her is not to be ignorant of her weaknesses. We know them well in our hearts, so we are not lacking in flexibility in dealing with her. Our flexibility skills are for her sake.In the first place we cannot get rid of the profound doubts we had about her playing; as has been said, this whistle does not meet our musical expectations, nor can we distinguish it from our usual whistle. different.But we keep our doubts in our hearts and calm our inner conflicts through face-to-face listening.We know next that she despises us; we know that our admiration does not move her at all, because she wants admiration in the way she dictates, in a ridiculous way that we can never do.We also know that she uses our interference with her singing, and our total lack of understanding of her, as motivation for her to keep singing hard.That is, the more we interfere with her, the less she understands, the higher her mood.Knowing all this, we still adore her and listen to her with gusto.Of course, when we clearly feel that her whistle is not music, we will object to her a little (in order not to spoil her); but this will not dampen our admiration for her.We always see ourselves as her parents, not seeking to understand, just admiring.How does Josephine feel about all this?

josephine's pain The source of Josephine's anguish is due to the ambiguity in the nature of her singing, which is both wholly earthly and heavenly.The whimsical Josephine herself came from the mundane world, yet she wanted to put aside all mundane factors in her singing.She wanted us to take her whistle directly as the song of heaven, and to that end she suffered in her short singing career from our indifference.She knows we can't agree with her, but her career is to achieve the impossible; for this cause (or eccentric hobby), she racks her brains, comes up with one set of masochistic schemes, exhausted own blood.We, the subjects who grew up on the earth, have always wanted to help Josephine out of admiration for her; with our righteous judgment and dog-like loyalty, and amazing patience, Josephine's singing Once again it went smoothly.But our attitude only aggravated her pain, and her inner conflict became more intense.This eccentric woman was only interested in one thing, one absurdly impossible thing.Here's to getting confirmation from us: her art reigns supreme.Such a delusion is doomed to fail.To us, Josephine's whistle is indeed beautiful, and it reminds us of all our experiences in this bleak world (our lonely childhood, our premature youth, how we lost The ability to directly feel music); it is like a message from a human being to an individual ear, indicating the precarious existence of the individual in the crowd; hearing it, our fiercely conflicted hearts can temporarily return to peace.But we can't lie, and we can't say things against our will, we can only tell the truth-this whistle really can't be equated with the music of heaven, its secular traces are too obvious.Josephine regards our attitude as a restraint on her; she despises us more and is more dissatisfied; she will use higher performances, even some vulgar behaviors to sway our opinion; she knows it will not be effective She has to continue, she has been deeply enchanted.In this secret contest of containment and anti-capture, Josephine tortured herself extremely painfully, trying to make us agree to her request out of a momentary softness.She even forgot that we are people of principle, people who don't lie; no matter what she plays, our attitude will not change in any way.We have never seen heaven, but we have faith in heaven; Josephine's song reminds us of the old legend, but that's all; how is it possible to replace heaven with it?Didn't she grow up among us, isn't she a visitor from outside the sky?So no matter how hard Josephine tried, she couldn't get rid of the imprint of the secular life, not to mention that all she sang about was the secular life.

It would be a mistake to think that Josephine simply despises us and is trying to work against us.Her performances were all for us and only us.So again she depends on us, and draws from us the strength of her singing; but she depends in a peculiar way.At the concert, our existence, our large and small disturbances to her, including our misunderstanding of her, and the burden of our souls, all became her stimulant, arousing her to work harder in singing. Climb to make us stand in awe.When the passion of inspiration is high, interference becomes a necessary reference, because Josephine can "do the opposite."External noise, even the empty stare of the audience is a prerequisite for Josephine's performance.

But in the end we failed to satisfy Josephine's last request that we confirm her artistic genius.After unremitting efforts time and time again, she was tortured until she fainted, but what she could only bring was deep depression.So she disappeared.But missing does not mean giving up, and the absence highlights the existence that once existed.Among the Silent People is no less remembered than her actual performance.Perhaps at this point, it makes no difference whether an artist performs or not.Only the process, no final acknowledgment, this is her sad fate.In fact, Josephine, who is loyal to singing, has never made a mistake or made a mistake; it should be said that her existence is based on the premise of "misunderstanding", that is, she can experience heaven while she is in the world.It is this kind of misunderstanding inherited from ancient times. Josephine has fought against our people countless times, using her youthful blood to blow out whistles of the world to express her yearning for heaven; It is presented in the process of artistic creation.But Josephine herself couldn't see it. She was confused by the secular nature of singing in the process, and was tortured by the distress of not being able to grasp the process (the process cannot be "caught"), so she had to keep singing.We, the people, cannot see heaven, but only hear the whistling of the world; the imagination of heaven is permeated in this strange whistling intermittently, and heaven itself is still very far away.We can soberly distinguish, and our sobriety and stubbornness are a fatal blow to Josephine.Unfortunately, we can only regret to say that she is too greedy.If Josephine knew that heaven can only be achieved in secular pursuits, that is, if you pursue it, it will appear, and if you don't pursue it, it will not exist, would she still suffer like this?Should still be.Because only in the most painful moments, heaven is truly presented; and it is her instinctive impulse to evoke and seize these moments.In this sense, it can also be said that Josephine suffers for the momentary pleasure all her life, and her greatest pleasure exists in her greatest pain.So it can be further said that Josephine's pain is her effort to achieve existence, and it is also the confirmation of the existence of life itself.And because she (the people are also a part of herself) cannot prove her own existence (under the condition that the reference object is "nothing"), this kind of pain will continue continuously, and she herself will continue to strive to "exist". "Go down.

December 4, 1998, Yingcai Garden