Chapter 29 ghost footsteps

I usually eat with my colleagues when I go to work. There are many old employees around, and I am too embarrassed to eat alone without them, because my colleagues may think that I don’t fit in.And eating at work also has to save time, so eating is basically a big pot of food.But I don’t work overtime on Friday night, and most of my colleagues go home for dinner, so I have enough time to eat and taste food that I haven’t eaten before.This time I chose claypot rice. There are not many people in the cafeteria, and the little brother who cooks is also very leisurely, making claypot rice slowly like designing a work of art.The taste is indeed delicious, but the freshly baked claypot rice is very hot, so it must be eaten slowly. It takes about forty minutes to finish a meal.Normally, it would definitely not be able to take such a long time.

The fast-paced life makes people want to run even when walking, and the numerous affairs also make people have less and less spare time-not necessarily less in absolute quantity, but less and less time fragments left for themselves.For example, when you get home, there are several housework to be done, and the time to finish these few things is greater than the sum of the time to finish each thing, because there will be a gap between finishing one thing and starting to do the next thing. Inevitably consumes a little time.This is our lost fragment of time.The more things to do, the more time shards get smaller and smaller.In this case, it becomes more and more difficult to find time to read books.Maybe it only takes 30 minutes to read a short story, but you will only consider doing these 30 minutes when you have an hour to spare.If you only have 30 minutes, I'm afraid it will only be used to think about doing things for 10 minutes, and the free time before and after must be reserved.

Is it too far?It seems that the things I talked about in front of me have little to do with this book.But when I first read this book, I was really surprised, because the length of more than 200 pages is only 60,000 words, and there are a total of 6 short stories, each of which is only about 10,000 words.In this way, a short story can be read in about 10 minutes. That is to say, when I go to the cafeteria and wait in line for food, or when I get off work and take the bus or subway back, I can read these short stories—I know This is a short story, and I know that I can finish reading this short story in time fragments, which is why I choose this book to read.

In this case, those ultra-long novels are facing an embarrassing situation.Reading itself takes a lot of time, and if you read a little bit in each time shard, and pick up the book in the next time shard, you may forget the previous plot again, and you need to spend more time recalling and reviewing.In today's fast-paced life mode, long-form works that are not as easy-to-understand as online literature will gradually lose readers. It's not that they don't like to read such works, but that they don't have time to study them carefully.It seems that someone has done research in this area: the changes in social life brought about by the advancement of science and technology will also have an impact on the forms and techniques of literary creation.Weibo is so popular, our time fragments, we can probably only look at the small jokes on Weibo.

Yes, it's a short story written by Hidesuke Michio.It is similar to the ghost stories we often read on the Internet, except that the jokes on the Internet are more refined, while the end of the story is a short story. No matter how you say it, you have to write a few more sentences to support the scene, commonly known as pouring water.Of course, with the progress of the times, some water is gradually stopped.The previous novels liked to describe the scenery and the clothes of the characters in detail, but the current popularity has gradually weakened this description, because images can perform this function better than novels.If the author said a few more words, readers may think the author is long-winded.Therefore, the territory of the text is shrinking, and the content is also slowly changing, and will eventually retreat to its core territory.This may be the case with small jokes on the Internet. Many jokes use the ambiguity of text to cause reversals. Text with less information than images can turn disadvantages into advantages.

In this ever-shorter world, there is too much information and too little time.Therefore, I often hope to grasp the key points of the work in the shortest time, see clearly the beginning and end, and understand the highlights. Many ideas are written as jokes instead of novels. There are advantages and disadvantages. Do less.It is really suitable for long-form ideas, and I believe it is absolutely impossible to write jokes or short stories. But when reading this book, do you also feel: Hidesuke Michio is too lazy?The key characters in the short story all use S, and they are reluctant to even choose a serious name.Such a short story is like writing the outline of a novel, like a half-finished script.But in the end, when I talked about this S problem with Mao Mao, she said happily: This is so weird, a multi-faceted S!Save me from remembering the name~ I'm so happy~

Daowei also took advantage of the ambiguity of the text here.