Chapter 26 Talk about Lin Yutang

Talk about Lin Yutang I have read some good books and some bad ones; but there is one book that never catches my eye interest, that is Lin Yutang's.Because, I know the kind of life he advocates His "art" really made me too afraid to experience it. Lin Yutang started his career by relying on it. I have participated in several preparatory meetings, So know a little "insider".This publication was able to run very angry at the beginning, and it should be attributed to As for Tao Kangde, it has nothing to do with Lin Yutang.Tao Wei is shrewd and capable, and has a lot of ability to handle affairs.

A typical "life" boy at that time. When he was still in Suzhou, he worked as a shop assistant and used I already knew him when he submitted novels to Shanghai magazines under the pseudonym "Wu Ran". The editorial affairs and affairs are all arranged by him alone, making them in perfect order, Lin Yutang just sits back and enjoys the benefits, Every issue is just reaching out to Boss Shao for money.But this money is very "urgent", and each installment has to be paid by the The publisher Times Company brought the manuscript fee and editing fee to get the bunch of manuscripts from Lin Yutang.don't want

If you say you don’t have the money and don’t give the manuscript, even if you write a long-dated check, you must pay in cash and hand in the money. Money, delivery by one hand, even if there is less money.At this time our "humorist" is very realistic, without any Not "humorous".He lived in a small bungalow on Jisfell Road, and there was a sign "There is a vicious dog inside" at the door. Wooden sign, the employees of Time Company hated his attitude too "Jewish", and proposed to add two sentences on the wooden sign for him: "Recognize money but not people, don't be surprised when you meet and visit you." --There are too many short stories like this, "Times"

Boss Shao is currently engaged in the introduction of Western literature in Shanghai. If he can spare time to write an Articles like Lin Yutang I Know" must be more brilliant than anyone else's. Lin's English is no longer very good, and his Chinese is even worse.Occasionally write a few "humorous" essays, Ask someone to retouch it first, and you can't see any flaws.But later I followed others who advocated "Yuan Zhonglang", If you want to write that kind of "late Ming sketch" prose, then you will reveal your true nature.Thanks to his smartness, he knows

His classical Chinese is not good, nor is his vernacular, and it cannot be compared with the diluted and refined prose of the old man Kuyu. For example, not to mention doggerel, not to mention uninteresting, even if you want to get the rhyme together, you can't get it right, so you have to go astray. The door, to flaunt the "Quotations" style of the Song people, I don't know that Zhu Fuzi's quotation style articles are simply better than the vernacular It is more difficult than classical Chinese, so it was written by Mr. Lu Xun in the "Jokes are only jokes" (see "Lace Essays")

"Study"), he was "quiet" for a "silence". Lin Yutang is now singing his old anti-communist tune in Taiwan.I The only "good feeling" for him is that he has not given up his Chinese nationality and applied to become an American.here There may be two difficulties in this, one is whether Americans want him, and the other is that if he becomes an American citizen, then even "My country and my people" can't be sold either.