Tokyo: The life of a literary giant begins with home self-defense!

Chapter 110: Small breasts, and a sloppy mouth

Even someone as thick-skinned and black-hearted as Ryukawa Tetsu would be embarrassed if caught gossiping.

Longchuan Che, who had just passed the exam, held the door handle and hesitated.

"When did Imamura-san get here?"

There are rows of chairs in the campus corridor at the entrance, and nervous students are preparing for the upcoming interviews.

The girl pinched her smooth chin, and her black hair sparkled in the sunlight.

"Just arrived."

Longchuan Tetsu breathed a sigh of relief and heard the other party continue to say,

"I haven't heard any boys of my age casually talking about girls' bodies, nor have I heard that Longchuan-san is taking the college entrance exam with his girlfriend."

You came early, didn't you?

Longchuan Che's eyelids twitched and he moved away from the blocked aisle.

Natsuko Imamura, the eldest daughter of the Kujo family, wore a simple white shirt with a light blue sweater jacket today. With a teasing smile on her pretty face, she said thank you after Ryukawa Toru moved aside.

"Mr. Akechi."

The girl knocked politely and spoke.

"I'd like you to take a look at the article I submitted to the Asahi Shimbun as soon as possible."

The girl said this to Akechi Susumu who was scratching his head over there, and then said to Ryukawa Toru, "Let's go."

"Where?"

"Aren't you going to look for Muzi? I just happened to be going to see her, so please hurry up."

The girl was very polite. After hesitating for a moment, Ryuukawa Toru walked out of the literature department building with her.

Waseda Avenue divides the school into two campuses, east and west, and various paths are paved with blue bricks and stone slabs.

The two walked towards the gymnasium.

"If it's an apology, then there's no need to say it."

Seeing that Ryukawa Toru looked hesitant, Natsuko Imamura smiled gently.

"From an evolutionary perspective, full breasts are seen as a sign of female health and fertility, and this preference may be rooted in human evolutionary history."

The girl nodded at Longchuan Che.

"It is a common public awareness that Longchuansan discriminates against women with small breasts."

It's not discrimination, right?

Long Chuan Che had a lot to complain about, but since the girl didn't seem to mind, he didn't want to keep talking about what happened.

Along the way, there were students holding various documents, and there were also athletes interviewing on the track and field in the distance.

Waseda is a comprehensive university with research departments such as political science, economics and literature, as well as sports-related departments such as the Department of Sports Science. In the first year of college, students take cultural courses such as sports medicine, health sports, and sports culture. In the second year of college, they are assigned sports coaches for special sports training.

In the future, they may be professional athletes, physical education teachers, or disseminators of sports culture.

Ryuukawa Toru watched his girlfriend jump high and knock the white volleyball into the opponent's court, and sighed in admiration.

Matsueda Muko has won county-level women's volleyball competitions, and her physique is much better than mine.

"Drink?"

While the two were waiting outside the stadium for Matsueda Kiko to finish her interview, Natsuko Imamura handed them a bottle of orange soda.

It happened to be his favorite drink, so Longchuan Che took it and said thank you.

The sweet and sour fruit drink was refreshing and stimulating. The other party really didn't seem to mind. Longchuan Che asked:

"You have a manuscript to be published in the Asahi Shimbun?"

Asahi Shimbun is one of the three major comprehensive Japanese-language newspapers in Japan. It adheres to the principle of "non-partisanship" and focuses on investigative and analytical reporting.

Many people who want to speak out to society will contribute articles to the other party. Ming Zhijin is one of the main writers of this newspaper.

"Ah."

The girl was well-mannered. When Longchuan Tetsu was talking, she stopped her hand that was halfway raised to drink something, nodded, and continued:

"A discussion on why there should be a distinction between pure literature and popular literature."

This topic was exactly the same as the one Mingzhijin had just mentioned. Longchuan Che was a little curious about what kind of submission would make the old man pull out all his beard.

[I write what I say. The so-called pure literature is just the self-entertainment of writers.]

After taking the handwritten manuscript handed over by the girl, Longchuan Che was stunned by the title of the article.

The scope of literati is very broad, including those who write novels, those who do research, and those who criticize and comment.

Everyone is aware that pure literature is at the top of the pyramid of literary creation.

It plays an important role in ideological enlightenment, artistic innovation and cultural leadership in society and culture, and also embodies the artist's dedication and noble character.

However, in this submission, the girl placed pure literature on the same footing as popular literature.
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Some people say that there is still so-called pure literature. However, those who say this may not be able to accurately explain what is "pure literature" and what is not pure literature.
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The so-called literature is actually the study of human beings, which is expressed in the form of novels, poems, essays, dramas, etc. It reflects the relationship between people and society, people and people, people and nature, and people and themselves. All literary works are like this.
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The original meaning of literature refers to a kind of spiritual activity of human beings, which is expressed through words. This is true for any literary genre, regardless of whether it makes money or not, or whether it makes you famous or not.
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Dividing literature into pure literature and popular literature is itself a somewhat ridiculous thing. If we must make a distinction, we can call it highbrow literature or lowbrow literature.
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The so-called highbrow literature mostly refers to literature that expresses lofty and profound themes, which requires a certain level of cultural literacy to understand and appreciate, such as the works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Masaoka Shiki.
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Why can’t the popular mystery novels, light novels and other literary works be recognized as orthodox literature?
In Chinese history, we can see that the Song Dynasty poems, Yuan Dynasty operas, and Ming and Qing Dynasty legends were not favored by the mainstream literary world at the beginning. But look at it now.
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In a nutshell, I think the current distinction between pure literature and non-pure literature is probably a term put forward by those who consider themselves noble and do not want to be tainted by the secular world.
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They use this to show that they are different.
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But they forget that literature is literature, a kind of art. No matter what kind of content it is given, it is always the same, there, neither coming nor going, neither born nor destroyed.
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I think it is meaningless to label it as pure literature.

A long article also includes historical arguments about why ancient literature was not accepted under previous political circumstances, and even points out the similarities between popular reading materials that are despised by literati in the current era and the creation environment of ancient cultural works.

Every word in this classic can stand up to scrutiny. It can be said that there should be no distinction between high and low literature. All literature is a cultural product that serves the general public.

Long Chiche put down the manuscript and looked at the girl drinking water calmly in amazement.

If his "Snow Country" is against the current mainstream literature, there should be no voice in the literary world.

That is what Natsuko Imura did.
"Want to compete with the gods?"

Ryuukawa Toru asked softly as he looked at the girl who had won the Shincho Award but went on to write popular literature.

(End of this chapter)