musicians of old

Chapter 220 The Absurd Conclusion (4K [-]-in-[-])

"Follow the official map and go to the boundaries of those irregular curves. After going deeper, you will enter some incomprehensible areas. Some have obvious and visible weird boundaries, while others are not obvious."

Although Fanning was puzzled by Viadrin's question, he still combined some of the information Joan had told him with his own analysis.

"The existing means of communication all failed in it, and the people who visited experienced confusion in their self-cognition. Most of the people who could return were those who retreated before the extreme drowsiness came."

"This shows that the limit of safe exploration in the abnormal zone is 72-96 hours. If you continue to exceed this time without sleep, your thinking and physical conditions will not be sufficient to maintain exploration of no man's land and cope with various unknown complex situations."

Human beings need sleep, 'dream' is even the only natural way for the wise to regain inspiration and nourish the spirit body.The latter may be able to last a little longer, but if it exceeds 120 hours, I am afraid that the mental state will become a semi-collapsed state.

And this length of time also needs to consider the room for staying and exploring and going back and forth. Even if you have invisible power that can be used, and use transportation and carry fuel as much as possible, the degree of depth that can be penetrated may be very shallow.

"It is said that the abnormal area is constantly spreading?" Fanning finally tried to confirm.

Viadrin gave an affirmative response: "This phenomenon may have started from a period that has not been covered by historical records. Judging from the side-by-side comparison of the documents of the third Sturungalian Dynasty, the area of ​​people's activities at that time It’s only on half a sphere, and now more than a thousand years have passed, and the scope of the abnormal area has spread a lot.”

In this world where mysticism is popular, there are many outstanding astrologers from ancient times to the present. The ancient scholars understood very early on that the abode they lived in was not a "round sky", but perhaps due to the existence of the abnormal area, their language There is no such thing as an "Earth Narrative" in the culture and culture.

——People don't tend to name the ground under their feet as "a certain star or sphere". For example, in Hoffmann, there is no subdivision meaning similar to English earth and world. They just use the word "world" to refer to this Residence, from an intuitive experience, is more inclined to mean "a combination of several continents and oceans".

Vyadrin grasped the marble guardrail on the top of the church with both hands, looking at the crowds of human heads and jumping lights below: "Its most direct impact is the ubiquitous "doomsday narrative" in various versions in various historical periods. Those who know Organizations have been quietly influencing the progress of society, whether it is the intimidation of secret organizations, or the propaganda of the Orthodox Church and the official school of thought, they are all well-versed in interpreting it in their own way."

"From a logical understanding, the cause of this formation is simple and direct: the living place of people is there, which is unique, not infinite, and cannot be transferred. Since the abnormal area is spreading, the world will definitely be covered from a certain day. In the abnormal zone."

"Of course, there is another point here that is very subtle. Looking at the length of time from generation to generation, the average spread of the abnormal area is not much compared to the vast and boundless world—"

"On the one hand, people have enough time to use their imaginations, and the 'doomsday theory' will not lead to excessive disorder in society. On the other hand, for those in power or extraordinary organizations in various periods of history, it is not so much a ' Rather, it is an 'academic' issue, an 'ideological' issue, or a 'philosophy' issue."

Fan Ning nodded his understanding when he heard this: "Compared to war, famine and power strife, compared to the temptation of invisible forces, or the threat of aging in a blink of an eye, it does seem less urgent, but it is related to the mystery of the high person, It is also something that every official extraordinary organization needs to face up to, well, those in power in different periods may pay more attention to it, because they have all imagined that their dynasty will be in power for hundreds of thousands of generations."

".So, is there a cause? The source of the trait, the cause of its generation, or the cause of its spread?"

"Discussion group." Viadrin spit out the phrase one by one syllables, and then stretched out his hand to slowly caress the guardrail, "Its full name is: Discussion Group for Investigation of Causes of Proliferation in Abnormal Areas and Related Affairs."

Hearing the full name, Fan Ning, who was looking at the lights below the church, stared.

"Since the victory of the Steam Revolution two hundred years ago and the birth of the industrialized new empire Tiolein, the first-generation leader of the Extraordinary organization Special Patrol Hall, who stepped onto the stage of history, pushed all official Extraordinary organizations to form a discussion group. Its first The principle is 'not to coordinate all conflicts, but only to discuss and coordinate affairs related to abnormal areas'."

"An official person with knowledge, as long as he is not crazy, will not think that the spread of abnormal areas is a good thing, but this principle is still too idealistic. The affairs of the mysterious field will inevitably involve substantial interests, not to mention every organization's concern for the spread of abnormal areas. The understanding will be different, and the interpretation of the doomsday or the coping methodologies will also be different. Judging from the past so many years, the discussion group has only played the role of 'temporarily preventing the contradiction from completely intensifying' in terms of coordination of interests."

"But there are two modifiers for the full name of the discussion group." Fan Ning said, "In terms of the first cause investigation function, I guess, with so many leaders of extraordinary organizations gathering together, there must be some valuable discoveries?"

"So, sometimes we feel that the strong among humans can talk about the deep mystery, but when we calm down and think about it, the higher mystery is still an unreachable illusion." Viadrin shook his head and smiled.

"In the more than [-] years since the establishment of the discussion group, the high-level executives of various extraordinary organizations have never tired of exploring the abnormal organization area, because there are not only fascinating mysteries, but also many sleeping ancient ruins, the latter means Dusty secret histories, ritual vessels, or hidden documents."

"It can be said that nothing has been achieved in the end, except for the loss of a large number of people--the official leaders who lead the team and the forbidden or criminals who 'have committed crimes and meritorious deeds'. The only ones left are those who have cultivated on the border. Frontier outposts or repair bases that were later swallowed by the abnormal area."

"However, about half a century ago, the progress of the investigation took a turning point. The Special Inspection Office notified the extraordinary organizations of their leader Poglerich's latest research conclusions."

"This is a conclusion that at first sounds unbelievable, even absurd. But after the special patrol office puts the irrefutable facts before everyone's eyes, everyone finds themselves forced to admit that it may indeed be true. .”

"Unbelievable? Absurd?" Fanning couldn't help but feel a strong curiosity, "What is the conclusion?"

Viadrin held on to the railing tightly with both hands: "Since the establishment of the discussion group, it has been secretly dispatching knowledgeable people all over the world and the secular military forces of various countries to monitor the progress of the spread of the abnormal area, including the real-time location of the spread border. The update includes the newly added total area data and regional area data. Although the interests of various Extraordinary organizations are difficult to coordinate, everyone's cooperation is relatively high in this matter."

"They later accidentally discovered that in those periods when the development of human art was in a state of prosperity, the extent of the spread of the abnormal area was relatively small, and vice versa, the spread area was larger."

"What kind of absurd connection is this!?" Fanning's eyes widened.

"The 'absurd' you described is indeed correct." Judging from Viadrin's expression, his expression still remains unbelievable, "This conclusion cannot be proved logically, and the phenomenon cannot be found However, when the Special Inspection Office listed the monitoring data, everyone found that the two are indeed related, and there is no exception."

"From the establishment of the discussion group to the conclusion made by the Special Inspection Office, it happened to almost cover the period of Bengeism art, so the statistical data is relatively complete. The 'art development and prosperity of mankind' mentioned here is a general term, it is 'individual' The concept combined with 'overall'—"

"'Individual' categories such as: the year when an important symphony or an important painting by a master of art came out, the time when a certain historically significant art exhibition, concert, or record was released, the time when a new genre or style was born , a milestone breakthrough year in art theory, etc.”

"The category of 'overall' is, for example: the number of annual concerts in a certain country, the performance activity of major symphony orchestras, the activity of exhibitions of major painting schools, art professionals or young people with lower levels than masters The new number of artists entering the public eye, the market recognition or annual output value of the cultural and art industry, etc.”

"Statistics, summarization and comprehensive calculation of these dimensions can use the year as a unit to roughly evaluate the prosperity of the development and development of human art every year, and then compare it with the monitoring data of the proliferation of abnormal areas, and this is obtained. Strange conclusion."

"For example, someone deliberately chose an example with a small perspective but a large weight: Maestro Gilles and his Ninth Symphony."

"This work was premiered in 858 in the new calendar. In that year, the diffusion area of ​​the abnormal area fell to the bottom in the 50 years before and after, and maintained a low and slow upward trend for several consecutive years until the death of the master in 863. The diffusion area rose sharply and began to fluctuate under the combined effect of other factors, but then there were two low-value years, 873 and 877—”

"Because the former is the first 10th anniversary of the master's death, there has been an upsurge in the world to stage the "Ninth Symphony" to commemorate the master. A group of outstanding conductors have been created, and more than a dozen scenes that are enough to be recorded in history have been born. The latter may have nothing to do with Gilles, but the symphonic poem "Awakening of Dreams" by the romantic master Lolfein and the piano sound and picture collection "Steam and Speed" by the master Swellink, two landmark works are here at the same time. Played for a year."

Hearing this, Fan Ning suddenly recalled the discovery that caught his attention at the beginning of time travel.

Artists in this world seem to have a higher social status than previous lives.

After Fan Ning saw the mystery for the first time, he believed that the reason is that the core of those who know is "hidden knowledge" and "inspiration", and artists directly occupy one of them.

Looking at it now, is this just the superficial reason?
The high status of the world's artists and the prosperity of the world's cultural and art industries are probably related to the more deliberate promotion and promotion of various extraordinary organizations and people in power.

Especially compare the two important nodes on the mysterious side and the artistic side:

The time when the Discussion Group was established was roughly equal to the time when the Steam Revolution was completed, and it was roughly equal to the time when Benedictism began.

The discussion group discovered this phenomenon at about the same time that Benicism ended and the more prosperous Romanticism began.

"Based on such irrefutable objective facts, extraordinary organizations have begun to face up to this issue," Viadrin said.

"Everyone deconstructed and analyzed the concept of 'art career prosperity' and found that it can be roughly divided into two categories: artists, and works of art - such as the birth, fame and death of artists; such as the emergence, dissemination and repercussions of works of art .”

"Therefore, in order to make a more reasonable evaluation of the value of artists and guide the prosperity of human art, it is very important to find a theory that can play a guiding role."

"The discussion group researched along this line, and found that ancient scholars actually reflected this kind of thinking in some hidden classics. They absorbed these theories, combined with the needs of mysticism and artistic practice, and defined the concept of 'ge'. "

"'Ge' refers to the sum of the degree to which an artist or a work of art has been recognized and remembered by the world in the long history."

"From this definition, we can deduce several important properties of 'lattice'."

"First of all, since 'ge' is the sum of cognition and engraving, it can still exist after a person's death. Artists and works of art both have 'ge', the latter is generally attached to the former, but both have Relatively independent—there may be unpopular works in the catalog of masters’ works, and some second- and third-tier artists in art history may also have one or two handed down works that are famous enough to rival the master’s.”

"Secondly, although the evaluation of 'ge' is subjective, it is a kind of 'collective subjectivity'. Discussion groups or inspection groups have no right to decide whether a person's 'ge' is high or low, only the 'long history' can determine In order to recognize and remember everyone in the world', take the topic discussion just now as an example, rather than saying that we are 'evaluating' your 'character', it is better to say that we are 'measuring' your 'character' based on experience. "

"Finally, 'style' is changing all the time, sometimes unpredictable, but there are also fatal factors. After the artist's death, his catalog of works has been finalized. People in the world discover value, and it may be popular in the market today, but it will be gradually forgotten ten or twenty years later.”

Viadrin's tone became meaningful at this moment.

"It seems that how the world recognizes your 'style' seems to be uncertain. A diligent and pure artist, or a pioneer of pioneering ideas, may not be as good as those in the market. Gain a wide following."

"But over time, history will always give the Sleeper a fair evaluation."

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