I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 149 The Lost Garden of Eden
Kitagawa Hide was a thorough man of action. After making up his mind, he immediately spread out all the information he had sorted out, then opened the web page and began searching for the many rendezvous places mentioned in the suicide notes of Muramatsu Tomoshi and Matsubara Rinko.

The Internet speed in the 90s was really hard to describe. It would take several minutes just to load a picture, and it might even load halfway before it turned into "This picture cannot be displayed, please refresh and try again."

If you really listen to its nonsense and click refresh at this time, the newly refreshed webpage will most likely still be the same. You can see everything else, but the picture you want will still be in that damn state.

According to Hide Kitagawa's experience, the best way at this time is to close the webpage and reopen it, and never refresh it repeatedly.

While the website was restarting, Kitagawa Xiu opened the Qiwu.com forum to see what interesting new posts the silly netizens had recently posted.

When he opened the forum, he was shocked to find that the original simple page no longer existed. The current Qiwu.com forum has a bit of the flavor of the Tianya Forum next door, with sections such as current affairs, entertainment, technology, and chat classified into different categories in an orderly manner.

Even in the blank space on both sides, it says "Advertising Space for Rent". It has to be said that although the technology in this era is backward, it is indeed developing rapidly, with changes almost every month, which makes people sigh at the great power of science and technology.

By the way, Qiwu.com also changed its name to Yahoo! JAPAN. Seeing this familiar website name, Kitagawa Shucai remembered that it was Masayoshi Son of SoftBank Group who, in conjunction with Yahoo Global of the United States, founded Yahoo Corporation in Japan in April this year and has since completely monopolized Japan's search engine industry.

Yahoo is the equivalent of Baidu in Japan. It seems that it will be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in five or six years and become the first stock in Japan to have a market value of over 500 billion US dollars. In the same year, the market value of Penguin was only 11 billion US dollars.

In his previous life, when he was a graduate student at the University of Tokyo, Kitagawa Hide would learn these useless little bits of knowledge when he was bored. After traveling through time, his memory inexplicably became extremely good. However, he had only read the general idea of ​​these little bits of knowledge before, and he had never carefully checked the specific details. No matter how good his memory was, it was useless for things he had never seen before. Therefore, his investment journey was cut short before it even began.

In the future, I guess I will just have to find a knowledgeable manager to help me increase the value of my assets.

Thinking of this, he simply switched to the technology section to see what new technologies netizens were talking about recently.

Like the early Internet forums next door, this highly professional section was initially only visited by people who were truly engaged in this industry.

Kitagawa Hide's scalp tingled when he read all those technical posts. He felt like a liberal arts student who accidentally walked into the dormitory of science and engineering guys. What "support vector machine", "semantic web path graph", "integrated learning method" - Kitagawa Hide knew every word they were talking about separately, but when they were put together, it became something indescribable.

In addition, the most frequently mentioned thing in the technology posts was the Microsoft operating system Windows 95, which became extremely popular when it was first released last year. People posted comments below to express their admiration for it, and then showed great anxiety.

"I feel like technology is changing at a high speed every minute and every second. Will we be unable to keep up with the times?"

"Haha, the person above is joking. If even we can't keep up with the development of technology, what should ordinary people do?"

“Science has put us on a car that is moving forward at high speed, but we don’t know what will arrive in the future.”

There were many replies like this, so Kitagawa Hide wrote down "social anxiety caused by technological development" in his notebook, then closed the forum page and looked back at the page with the photos of the rendezvous place.

As the pictures slid by at high speed, Kitagawa Hide was thinking in his mind how to modify "Paradise Lost" and incorporate the stories of Muramatsu Tomotoshi and Matsubara Rinko in a clever, perfect and factual way.

This time, the novel is re-created entirely based on things that happened in the real world. It is necessary to take into account the interest of the novel while retaining the original social criticism of "Paradise Lost". After starting the creation, Kitagawa Shucai found that this was really difficult.

Fortunately, he had been learning and practicing before, and his writing ability was steadily improving. Coupled with the experience of the three books "I Am a Cat", "芥廾" and "国边", he was finally not completely clueless.

The original work of "Paradise Lost" by Jun'ichi Watanabe involves a lot of sexual descriptions. The main plot is that as the seasons change, the hero and heroine meet in different places. The heroine keeps changing clothes and postures while playing poker with the hero. Then, as time goes by, the pressure on each of them gradually increases, and finally reaches a point where it is difficult to reverse.

Of course Kitagawa Hide couldn't write it the same way. After all, he had promised the two dead people to use their names as the male and female protagonists and use their real experiences as the blueprint for the story. That would require more psychological details and more delicate emotional changes to fill in the part about playing poker.

But then, new problems emerged.

The poker-playing scene in the original novel also foreshadows the emotional changes between the male and female protagonists. Some extreme emotions and the unique beauty of mono no aware literature can only be reflected through such scenes. If you remove too much, the taste will change.

Of course, there are advantages to doing this, such as it makes it easier to adapt it into film and television dramas.

In addition, there are many small details in the original work that need to be modified one by one, otherwise the product will not be consistent and will look like a science fiction novel. Although novels are derived from life and are generally higher than life, if they are too high, readers will definitely not buy it.

Kitagawa Hide was scratching his head and realized that if he really had to deviate partially from the original work to create a secondary creation, the integrity of the entire literary creation would be destroyed, and the difficulty of creation would increase exponentially. It was hard to imagine how the literary masters who wrote these original works could write such a wonderful novel out of thin air.

But despite his worries, Kitagawa Hide became more and more happy in the process of discovering and solving problems step by step. He felt that his writing skills were also improving day by day, as if he had vaguely grasped the right line.

In this way, Kitagawa Hide unknowingly entered into a mysterious "flow state". In order to write this semi-original novel well and not to tarnish the reputation of the golden signboard of "Kitagawa Hide", he simply hung a small sign outside "Peter Cat" that read "Temporarily closed for one week".

Readers who kept coming and going disappointed became more and more curious. This week, they could see Mayumi Aso, Yumeko Agatsuma, Reina Saito and other people related to Mr. Kitagawa coming in and out of the cafe, but Mr. Kitagawa, whom they had been thinking about, never showed up.

Rena Saito, who came to Kitagawa Hide a few days ago to discuss the details of the "Border" signing event, was surprised and worried when she learned that he had started working on a new book. Especially since Kitagawa Hide's condition this time was very similar to when he wrote "No Longer Human", she became even more worried.

Saito Rena wanted to have a chat with Kitagawa Hide, but he was completely secluded this time writing a book. He locked himself in the bedroom and stayed there for more than ten hours. Only Yumeko Agatsuma, who brought him meals, could see him.

Saito Rena was helpless and could only ask my wife Yumeko to keep a close eye on this future "number one in the world" and make sure he didn't die from overwork at his workplace!

There are also three disciples who care deeply about Kitagawa Hide, as well as Kawaide Shizuko who treats him like a treasure.

The March issue of "Wenyi" has been on sale for 3 days, and its monthly sales are approaching 20 million copies. It is about to achieve the epic achievement of sales of over 100 million copies for two consecutive months. Shizuko Kawaide does not want any accidents to happen to Kitagawa Hide at this point in time.

As for the new book he was preparing, somehow the rumor that "Teacher Kitagawa is writing a masterpiece" suddenly spread throughout Japan.

Since the subject matter and content of the new book are kept confidential, the only person who knows the truth is Yumeko Agatsuma, so there are all kinds of speculations out there. As a result, the book has not even been written yet, but its popularity is almost overshadowing the completed "Border".

Even Tokyo Broadcasting System TBS mentioned this matter during a news broadcast. When the female host talked about Mr. Kitagawa's new book, she could hardly hide the stars in her eyes.

Kitagawa Hide, who was locked in his bedroom studying how to write "Paradise Lost", had no idea that his new book had become a hot topic outside.

These days of seclusion and writing have made him understand one thing.

As long as your foundation is solid enough and you can devote yourself wholeheartedly to a career that you are willing to fight for, all the problems that you previously thought were unsolvable and goals that were difficult to achieve will be solved with the passage of time!

4 month 15 day.

On the eighth day of Kitagawa Hide's retreat to write, he finally finished writing the first chapter "Sunset" of his new book "Paradise Lost".

He took the printed manuscript, stood up from the computer desk, and took the initiative to turn the bedroom door handle.

There was no clock in the bedroom, and he didn't pay attention to the time on the computer. In order to concentrate on writing the book, he also gave his cell phone to Mengzi for safekeeping.

When he left the bedroom, Kitagawa Hide had not yet come out of the state of not knowing day or night.

He staggered into the bathroom while calling Mengzi's name. When he looked up at the mirror, he was almost startled.

The fluffy, messy hair, greasy face and sunken eye sockets lower the original 12-point appearance to 10 points.

Kitagawa Hide quickly turned on the faucet and splashed his cheeks with clean water to restore his consciousness.

"Xiujun, are you out?" My wife Yumeko poked her little head in, then immediately ran to get a new towel and a bunch of skin care products such as facial cleansers.

"Well, I finally finished writing the first chapter. Here is the manuscript. You can take a look at it." Kitagawa Hide squeezed out milky white liquid, smeared it on his face, and urged Mengzi to read his newly written "Paradise Lost".

Yumeko is a top student in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo. She has a very high literary literacy and excellent writing skills. She has now become his full-time agent, first reader, and most loyal supporter.

Sometimes the suggestions she made were very valuable and really helped Kitagawa Hide a lot.

"The title of the book turns out to be Paradise Lost." Mengzi knew that the story of the novel was based on the works of Muramatsu Tomokazu and Kitagawa Hide, but Kitagawa Hide had never told her the title of the book and the specific content. When she saw the name "Paradise Lost", she immediately became interested.

Judging from the title of the book, it seems difficult to associate it with extramarital affairs and death.

"Yes. In the Bible, Adam and Eve lost the Garden of Eden because they ate the forbidden fruit. In this story, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Muramatsu was demoted and his salary was cut, Mrs. Matsubara was deserted by her friends and relatives, and finally died, all because they ate the forbidden fruit of 'love that should not be possessed' and finally lost their spiritual and physical paradise."

Kitagawa Hide washed his cheeks and turned to look at Yumeko. This was his own interpretation of the title "Paradise Lost" and also the core idea of ​​the novel.

(End of this chapter)