lucy's story donno Lucy's in the sky with diamond ．Lucy in a Starry Sky With Diamonds - It's a bright old Beatles song from yesteryear.When I was reading Tie Yi's book, the melody of this song kept ringing in my mind, not only because the female psychologist Miss Ping in the book was called Lucy, but also this name appeared frequently; not only because Lucy was invited Going to a girls' sports school to give a speech, and getting along with a group of young girls who are in a mess for several days; moreover, because Tie Yi never let go of any fringe characters in the book, he wrote this group of tall, short, fat and thin chattering girls brilliantly. The sky is full of stars.

Lucy's story—in fact, with the Beatles song as a bridge, we can let our imaginations go even further. How far is it? As far as Eve in the Garden of Eden at the beginning of the world, and Lucy is the name of Eve in anthropology—that was a true legend that happened in 1974. A petite skeleton of a "female" that is complete in terms of anthropological definitions was dug in Africa, and the date was determined to be about 3 million to 3.5 million years ago. Anthropologists called it "Australopithecus afarensis" and could walk upright. It is the oldest skeleton in the hands of anthropologists about the origin of human race, and it is even controversially regarded as the ancestor of all known races.

This female Eve, who is only three feet tall and more like an ape, was named Lucy because the group of rather romantic investigators were listening to the Beatles' Lucy'—mond when the bones were unearthed. So they named her Lucy. Those who want to see Lucy's model and listen to this song to relive this legendary story can take the time to go to the Science Museum in Taichung City.In the model, the short Lucy stands alone on the top of the hill with a slightly hunched back, looking longingly at the camp of anthropologists in the valley far away. This song is inserted in the camp. Pick up your ears and follow the intermittent Beatles song, and it will guide you to Lucy, our oldest mother.

Although human beings and human legs are not well known, many people know that the two female heroes of the second golden period of classical reasoning, Agatha Christie and Josephine Tey, are certainly not as old as Lucy, but both have passed away. They don't see each other, or even look down on each other. Here we add fuel to the fire and watch the two perform like the north and south poles again: In Christie's masterpiece "Murder in the Sun", the great detective Hercule Poe Lo pointed to the sunbathing bodies of men and women covering their heads and faces on the beach and said, "Look at them, lying in rows, what are they? !”

However, in Tey's book, when Miss Lucy Ping decides to stay and dutifully struggles to get up early for morning prayers, she looks at the kneeling row of schoolgirl legs in front of her, and has fun identifying which pair is which. Which girl owns the legs and feet?"... She found that identifying different people by their legs is as effective as identifying people by their faces. Look, there are pairs of stubborn, flirtatious, refreshing, and dull people in front of them. , Doubtful Legs—just switch sides and look at the ankles again, and she can call out: Dex, or Inn, Ruth, Boa, to match those legs."

If we further question the significance of these two passages in their respective novels, they are exactly the opposite: Christie's "convergence theory of the human body" plays an extremely key role in enlightening her novel Murder; "With Legs" is just another new discovery of Ms. Ping's curiosity, which may contain a hint of nostalgia for the youthful student years, but as far as the novel itself is concerned, there is no design technical function. Flat People and Round People Here, we first introduce the famous British novelist E. M.First, there are two classification concepts of characters in novels: flat characters and round characters.

The so-called flat characters refer to the characters in the novel whose personalities are as flat as a thin sheet of paper.His manufacturing method is usually to remove differences, block changes, and smooth out their respective personalities. In the end, as Christie said, even gender does not exist (although intellectually we still know whether they are male or female), and personality does not exist. No more, and simply become a "one" concept.For example, take the familiar characters in Jin Yong's novels as an example, Guo Jing is "loyal", Huang Rong is "sophisticated", and Xiaolongnv is "innocence" (sorry, it is closer to "stupid" in my personal opinion) and so on-yes, flat characters are the biggest The distribution center of the book is popular genre novels and Hollywood movies of the same concept.

When a writer creates a flat character, he is known, not unknown; he is making, not thinking.He does not use it to explore the complexity and subtlety of human nature and its changes, but to get rid of it and use it.As far as mystery novels are concerned, what are they used for? They are used as indispensable conceptual protagonists such as "victim", "detective" and "suspect", and usually they each have a secondary professional identity, such as , "policeman", "rich man", "heir", "housekeeper", "driver", "playboy", "lawyer" and so on, they are easy to recognize when they appear without wearing a logo, because what you see is often not A person came over, but a business card came over.

However, flat characters are not completely useless. We first see that the world of novels, movies and TV is full of paper-thin characters that are no less than the number of Ganges sands, and we know that there must be a reason for it.This point of sophistication is as keen as First, and he pointed out two points: one is easy to recognize, and the other is easy for readers to remember. Of course, these two advantages are mutually exclusive. If you don't believe me, we can try it.Like the characters in Jin Yong's novels mentioned above, you won't get confused, and you can easily quote them to others. Therefore, he does not need to test the reader's patience, concentration, and ability (insight, sensibility, memory, etc.), and is easier to spread and quote; however, how do we easily identify non-flat characters in novels? How do you remember Prince Andrew in Kiyosato? What about Brown, the first-person way teller? In Foster's words, "...we cannot describe him in a single sentence.

In our memory, he is bound up with the scenes and scenes that he experienced, and these scenes also make him constantly change.In other words, we can't remember him very clearly because he is mixed, complex and multifaceted, not far from a real person, not just a concept. "Universal and Personality As for the so-called round characters relative to flat characters, it is only necessary to reverse the above-mentioned statement here, and there is no need to waste words. Including round characters that are close to real people, emphasizing individual differences and uniqueness, especially His various contradictions and changes in different situations and different specific time and space; thus including his difficulty in identifying, interpreting and conveying. Such troublesome characters appeared later in the world of novels (even dramas) and have always been It was not until the modern novels focusing on realism emerged in the 18th century that they replaced the portraits of great heroes and political figures (the portraits are of course just a flat piece of paper) and became the main characters in our so-called orthodox novels or serious novels. main character.

Here we ask a stupid question: If flat characters are a conceptual character, emphasizing universality; while round characters tend to be individual real people, emphasizing differences and uniqueness, then whether flat characters can better allow us to grasp the essence of human nature What about the common truth? No, of course not, because the so-called universals captured by flat characters are just the most superficial and superficial common denominator, without any secrets at all, just like the famous British novelist D. H.As Lawrence said, when you quickly "know" the world from the surface, often under the illusion of understanding, you lose the intention to really dig deeper. Lawrence's "deep digging" clearly pointed out a paradoxical truth: if there is a so-called universal in human nature, the method of reduction cannot bring us much understanding. On the contrary, we often learn from its huge When there is tension in difference, and even from the various distortions, deformations and pushes of human nature to unimaginable boundary conditions, it can be understood again and again. Is this the real experience around us? It should be.We come into contact with many flat characters every day from newspapers, magazines, and even TV broadcasts (in recent decades, the media has become the largest distribution center for flat characters), and we can also clearly explain to others, including ××× is "diligence Love the people", ××× is "stupid", ××× is "courageous" and so on, but these are not necessarily their true personality truth, and we cannot gain any new understanding of people through these.Our understanding of people mainly comes from real family members and friends, but why don’t you try to talk about what kind of people they are? Male goose and mother goose From here, we can clearly see that forever is unique to people It is not difficult for us to understand why Tei, who is full of curiosity about differences and differences, and mostly round characters in his works, is not a genre novelist; it is not difficult for us to understand why Christie wants to ridicule her novels from the perspective of genre novelists and readers first. "Dream" and "trivial" again. Similar methods and terms of accusation and ridicule have always been familiar to us, and have even risen to writers and their works that are more remarkable than Tei.Including "procrastinating and sloppy", "Reminiscences of Time Fleeting" "trivial and incomprehensible", "boring and boring to watch" Yunyun—Of course a reader has the right to make such an evaluation (as long as he doesn't care about exposing his ability), but we have to say that the three novels we listed above are all great treasures in the field of human thinking and creation. It is no luck that after the tempering of time, it still stands like the real peak of the Himalayas.Regardless of how many new horizons they will open up for us to understand human nature, as far as the current feeling of reading is concerned, they have indeed brought a thrilling and beautiful reading process to generations of readers with insight, sensibility and appreciation. There is a witty proverb in the West that says, "The good food of a male goose is not equal to the good food of a female goose." Whether it is boring or good-looking may also vary greatly depending on the reader's yearning, understanding and sensibility. It is a topic that is easy to quarrel, but with the help of First's discussion on the difference between flat characters and round characters, we can get a more calm and distinguish method of male and female geese and basic reading strategies, without having to take some books called "trivial", The bricks of "dull", "boring" and "ugly" etc. are thrown at each other. After all, reading and appreciating literature is not a matter of the minority obeying the majority, but each following its own category.Everyone strives to find and enjoy good works that will really make his heart throb. I belong to Tei Yi’s school, and I have always been fascinated by her strong curiosity about the differences in human nature, her precise and elegant and humorous descriptions, and more importantly, her strong sense of reality and justice that can even get angry. An extremely hardworking reporter on the domestic reading page once told me, "This woman's social awareness is really strong!"——You would expect there to be more such writers, and even more such people in society. As for her choice of writing novels in a way that is not easy to identify, interpret, and convey, she gave up the secular title of "over 500 million copies sold worldwide" and "Queen of Mystery Fiction" to Agatha Christie, I am willing to stand at a position where applause is difficult to reach. I think this is seeking benevolence.