Chapter 50 Reading Notes The Song of Brunata--Reading "America"

Who would have expected that such a fat, bulky, violent, domineering, capricious and extremely gloomy artistic soul would lurk in the poet's skinny body like dry bamboo?She was Brunata, who made waves day and night, queen of the shadowy realm above the city. Brunata used to be a member of the secular world. In order to break away from the crowd, she went through an extremely tragic stripping process.It is a process that ordinary people cannot imagine. It requires a cruel heart that does not recognize the relatives, and it also requires the courage to despise the existing order and the courage to go out and become a loner.The proud Brunata first drove away her husband who loved her so much and was attached to her, turning him into a ridiculous clown who struggled in vain in despair.This is the first step for the queen to transcend the secular in the past.What is she going to do?Her inner desire drives her crazy, she wants to create a life that has never existed before, she wants to build her own artistic kingdom, this is what she wants to do.Her whole body is boiling with heat waves, her fat and fiery body almost swells the clothes on her body, but she is unable to move, and cannot take care of her own life without relying on others, her vitality is becoming more and more important to her day by day. own burden.A special day came when the Huntsman stood downstairs, and her bright eyes fell on the tramp, Delamash, and recognized him at once, and he recognized her.She took him to the dark apartment on the top of the tall building, and became one with him from then on, accompanied by the tramp Robinson.

In this way, Brunata began her real artistic career in the penthouse apartment of that tall building.What is art?Art is torture, endless and ingenious ravages, merciless trampling again and again.It was Brunata's glamorous body full of vitality and contradictions that the two spiritual wandering souls, Delamache and Robinson, saw on that extraordinary day.The vagabonds immediately understand: only this woman is their destination, she will make them human, she will make them end their empty wandering and start their real creation.However, it is not so easy to deal with Brunata, a volcano of flesh.No moment can foresee what will happen in the next moment, and no action can achieve the expected effect.The artistic trinity composed of the two vagabonds and the queen Brunata, just like this, carried out their artistic practice full of tears, fear and expectation day after day in the high and dark art hall.What an unbearable life that was!Due to the torment of her inner desires, the queen appears so perverse, cruel and domineering. Her desires are everything, and everything cannot be explained.In the closed chamber, desire is naked, and naked desire does not demand a response. On the contrary, what the queen demands is ascetic obedience.But how can you not obey?Didn't the two wandering spirits come here for this?Dramache and Robinson, who have a deep understanding of the essence of art, know how to keep vigilant carefully, constantly overcome their own inertia, listen to the Queen's breathing devoutly, and mobilize all the fantasy power in their bodies to complete the divine friendship with the Queen.They are masters, and we have seen how they suppress humanity and release it through crooked channels.

Brunata's body is the basis for the dilemma of the tramps, which is an insurmountable obstacle.In their eyes, she is not only an extremely coquettish stunner, but also a god who is as cold as ice and rejects people thousands of miles away.Even Dramash's sex with her never felt the pleasure of the flesh, but only the endless longing--the hunger caused by lack.Whoever falls in love with her will suffer from hunger all his life.The hard labor of the body is endless, and all possibilities of relief are eliminated. When people are forced into a corner, they begin to dream of glowing from the darkness.Sleeping in the filthy filth on the balcony, breathing the dusty air, Robinson had a fiery dream.In the dream, he forgot his own trauma and pain, immersed in the queen's alluring scent, and was so moved that he couldn't help himself!This illusory dream may be regarded as compensation for his torment during the day, and the compensation only intensified his hunger.Tramps have no hometown, their hometown is in their dreams, and Brunata is the initiator of those magnificent dreams.This half-beast and half-god singer, with her proud red dress, her strong body odor, her shameless exposure and stern refusal, who can resist the temptation of this double-edged sword!Brunata, Brunata, you ancient beauty, where do you come from, and where do you lead us?The tramp asked a thousand times in his dream with tears in his eyes, he held the corner of the queen's skirt submissively and lovingly, and put his lips together... But he was awakened, and inside the house, Brunata was furious, vulgarly Scolding, throwing food on the ground.So Robinson remembered his duties as a servant, propped up his sick body and went into the room to start a day of hard labor.

Brunata is a collection of contradictions, she is a mystery that ordinary people cannot understand.She is vulgar, fat, strong and at the same time delicate, sensitive and elegant; She is obsessed with observing the crowd downstairs, but she lives a life strictly isolated from the outside world; she lives in an extremely pure artistic conception, while her surroundings are unsightly messy and dirty. It was also dirty; she was plagued by illnesses all day long, groaning and shouting non-stop on the sofa, but in fact she had an extremely strong stomach that could digest spoiled food, and a strong heart that could withstand any accident.Such a Brunata, if one wants to meet her needs, what else can one do other than become a lifelong slave?So the two vagabonds, who were overwhelmed by her magic power, willingly embarked on the road of hard labor.The young Karl's understanding of the queen is a gradual process, a process from distrust, disgust, attempting rebellion to understanding and tolerance, and finally becoming an accomplice.This is also the process of Karl's growth, all thanks to the enlightening education of the environment, of course, the most important thing is the authority of the Queen.Whoever approaches her will definitely feel the power of deterrence deeply, because her will cannot be violated.This picture of life in hell is a true portrayal of the palace of art. Karl, who was forced to break into it by fate, will learn how to be an artist here.

So, is Brunata's palace high above the city, heaven or hell?It should be said that it is the middle ground where the two meet.Like Brunata's own half-beast, half-god's body, the mixture was as wondrous as it could be.All secular intrusions are excluded here, it is extremely ethereal, but it has all the characteristics of the secular, and it is a place where human desires are displayed.Relying on her strong physique, Brunata unifies the contradictions that tend to be extreme conflicts in one body, thus creating such a wonderland, a wonderland that will definitely make people feel strange and disgusting at first sight.The charm of Brunata's body is the charm of art. It arouses people's desire and reverie, but it never gives people the slightest satisfaction. It only makes the fire of desire burn hotter.In this palace, deprived of everything, the only thing people can do is to dream, that kind of beautiful dream in the torment of hunger and thirst.Brunata would never choose someone who does not believe in dreams.What are the three of them doing in this special laboratory?What was the nature of their busy activity?It turns out that what they are doing here is melting the boundaries, connecting the two poles, and connecting the two worlds into one.This daunting work is full of trauma, nightmares, depression, and hopeless struggle.However, in this kind of work man hears from time to time a call from heaven.It is art, and art alone, that can achieve this glorious peace.Brunata built this laboratory with a superhuman spirit, because of the persecution of inner contradictions.She couldn't go to heaven, because her fascination with the world was deep in her bones; she couldn't mingle with the world, that kind of association drove her mad.Desperate, she could only invent, so she invented art, and her spirit found an outlet.

The birth of Brunata seems to be an incredible thing.However, one thing is certain: she came from an outbreak of extreme depression, and her unrestrained cruelty that day was the product of this depression.She broke through the outbreak, abandoned her previous life, established her own small kingdom in mid-air, and became a veritable queen.Since this outburst was an outburst of desperation, everything she did after that was out of thin air.That is to say, she can only let this volcano of her body erupt, and let the activity of invention (with the help of the vagabond) proceed as a result of the eruption, because only in this activity can she exist herself.

April 8, 1998, Yingcai Garden