How to pretend to be a literary youth?

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What is a literary youth?

Broadly speaking, all young people who like culture and art can be called literary youth. They pursue life style, like reading, music, movies and traveling, and have romantic feelings and rich spiritual world. Among all sentient beings, they can easily give people a sense of brilliance and otherness.

Therefore, literary youth is a 100% good word, and it was once all the rage.

As Han Han said in the preface of the inaugural issue and of course the last issue of Solo: "When I was in college, I was a young literary artist, and I wanted to be a writer and a reporter. We were all very popular at that time. If I can write some short poems, play some small guitars and pick some small flowers, the girls will be fascinated. You see, girls don't like these people now. What do they like? "

Yes, if someone says you are a young man of literature and art now, you will always feel a little joking.

The world is becoming more and more realistic. Those unrealistic idealism, unrestrained sentimentality, untimely stubbornness, ungrounded indifference and the proliferation of pseudo-literary youth make the meaning of this title more and more subtle.

In that case, why should we pretend to be young artists?

Because on the whole, it is still a compliment. In the materialistic world, young artists are still shining and still emitting unique light.

There is a simple reason. Since material life is so poor, yes, poverty is also one of the labels of literary youth. What will you do to save your soul if the spiritual world is not richer, more elegant and more literary? What supports a person's life (pao) and life (niu)?

Next, talk about dry goods. How to pretend to be a literary youth?

Be sure to dress up.

Big gold chain, big gold watch and so on, look like an uneducated upstart, definitely not. As for luxury goods such as LV, Hermes, Dzheniya and Versace, how do you say it? Not recommended for young artists. It is easy for others to misunderstand that you are a rich second generation. More importantly, you can't afford it.

Young artists wear simple everyday clothes, mainly cotton or cotton and linen fabrics. The most common thing for boys is black and white T-shirt+jeans+high round toe shoes. T-shirts are printed with LOGO or movie posters that others can't understand. It's best to roll up your trousers. Always bring headphones, backpacks or canvas bags, unless it is too hot in summer, scarves are necessary.

For girls, white shirts+floral dresses+canvas shoes are the most common.

Men and women, who can have long hair, must not have short hair.

Be sure to drink coffee.

I can't do it unless I am convinced. It's also made of beans. Coffee just looks better than soybean milk. Even if you don't like the taste of coffee, you must drink coffee, and unless you have to, you'd better not drink instant coffee, and don't confuse yourself with the general public.

Drinking tea is absolutely not acceptable. Soaking green tea and medlar in a thermos cup is the legendary greasy middle-aged man. It must be remembered that drinking tea is culture at most, and drinking coffee is literature and art.

Be sure to watch it.

Young artists like reading. In sunny afternoons, they always go to Starbucks to order a cup of coffee, sit down in a quiet corner, open Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Forest with them, read a few pages carefully, then take out their mobile phones and put the coffee cup with LOGO next to the book, typesetting, taking photos, retouching and matching words in one go: "The years are quiet, they are safe." Then, send friends.

It really doesn't matter whether you watch it or not. After all, many books are bought to decorate bookcases. Especially those famous Chinese books, I don't recommend you to read them, just like drinking coffee without tea.

Young artists' bookcases are mainly filled with foreign masterpieces. For example, Unbearable Lightness in Life, Good Girl, Memories of Time Past, Ulysses, A Brief History of Humanity and so on.

It doesn't matter if you can't watch it. Don't doubt your IQ. To tell the truth, few people have actually read it. You just need to remember the names of these people: Milan Kundera, Jerome David Salinger, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, yuval Hullary, and then casually say them in the conversation, which is enough to make people respect and fear, even if you don't know which country they are from.

Don't panic if you meet a real opponent after the eighth generation of blood mildew. No matter which book he is talking about, you just need to say softly, "I like this book very much." I have read it many times, and every time I read it, I will have a new feeling. I can feel the author's mental journey and vigorous creativity, as well as his understanding of life and his ultimate thinking about human destiny. " All right, that's it. One more question, don't talk anyway, just drink coffee, and laugh deeply and unfathomably.

If books are the ladder of human progress, then loading is the elevator of human progress, and it is the kind of transparent sightseeing elevator.

Be sure to travel.

Young artists like to travel. Body and soul, there is always one on the road.

Remember, this is a trip, not a tour. Never join a group.

Young artists pay attention to a trip like walking, a crazy foreigner who doesn't take the usual road. No matter what means of transportation you take, you must sit in the window seat, don't talk to others, listen to the music in the headphones, quietly look at the scenery passing by, and have a lot of thoughts.

The choice of destination is very important. A big city like Beishangguang is too vulgar, so young artists must go to Tibet to melt themselves in the blue sky and white clouds on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and purify their souls in the snow-capped mountains and lakes. Followed by Shangri-La in Lijiang, Dali, Yunnan, or Aden in Daocheng, Sichuan. In short, it is mainly in the west, and wherever it is remote, go there.

Try to choose a youth hostel for accommodation. After all, you don't have much money After settling down, find a small bar with folk songs in the local alley, order a glass of wine, take a photo and send it to a circle of friends with the words: "I have a story, do you have any wine?"

Remember, don't forget to turn on the positioning function.

You must have your own artistic hobbies.

The threshold of painting is too high, and it is not a day's work to show people. So movies, photography and music are the first choice for young artists.

In fact, everyone likes watching movies, whether they are young artists or not. It's just that you like Wolf Warriors 2, and young artists don't care about this kind of film at all.

In order to distinguish the ordinary audience, French and Italian literary films are preferred. Whether you can understand it or not, at least write down the name of the movie. For example, Midnight in Paris, The Veil, The Reader, Good Will Hunting, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Grand Budapest Hotel and so on.

American Hollywood blockbusters are too commercialized to meet the temperament of literary youth and are not recommended. Unless the box office is as bad as Birdman, the whole movie is inexplicable, but the one that won the Oscar for best picture is worth seeing.

Wong Kar-wai and Hou Xiaoxian are the first domestic films. For example, Nie Yinniang the Assassin, although the movie is so boring that people almost fall asleep, you must watch it after it comes out, because it was directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, and it was shortlisted for the Palme d 'Or at Cannes Film Festival, and won the Golden Horse Award in Taiwan and the Hong Kong Golden Award. How can this not look good? Are you blind as a judge?

Defend the taste of the film, taking douban as the standard. Douban has a high score. Even if you don't understand it, you should say it looks good and has connotation. It is so touching and shocking. Like Gon Rinpoche.

No matter where the technology develops in the future, no matter how powerful the camera function of mobile phones is, as young artists, we must grit our teeth and buy a heavy and expensive SLR camera. Even if AUTO is always fully automatic, it will never be used outside the P file.

Young artists are ashamed to take pictures in crowded scenic spots, especially landmark buildings, and avoid them. You usually choose a quiet bookstore, a cafe in the sun, a dim bar, an old street, an old factory and workshop, or a broken wall covered with graffiti.

Young artists like music, especially guitars. After all, it is inconvenient to bring a piano. However, due to technical reasons, most people's guitars are covered with dust after a period of novelty.

I love listening to songs, my headphones are always on, I listen to ethnic music, and I have a few treasures for folk bands. The less popular I am, the more respected I am, and the more popular I am. For example, after Zhao Lei's Chengdu became an instant hit, young artists no longer liked him because he became popular.

Be sure to pretend.

If you want to be a young artist and don't have much time and energy to study and improve your artistic accomplishment, there is only one shortcut: pretending.

The so-called pretending to force is a way of behavior to improve our literary power. This should not be a derogatory term.

Like sending a circle of friends. At the beginning of the new year, when others use "20 18, you must work hard!" When you come to motivate yourself, you send a message: "Every day you have never danced is a disappointment in your life." It will stand out and radiate the brilliance of literature and art.

This is of course of no practical use. As the Northeasters say, "What about pulling calves? How can you eat them as food? " But the essence of literature and art is that I don't mix well and don't have much money, but at least I have spiritual pursuit and am not secular.

In this materialistic society, this is precious.

The fall of the world began with making fun of young artists. I tell you, young artists should not be laughed at, even if they are pretending to be forced!

Wang Shuo said: Pretending is shameful, but pretending is not shameful.

It is undeniable that many authentic and experienced young artists have come all the way from pseudo-literary youth. Pretend it and it will come true.

Pretending itself represents your recognition and yearning for this situation. In other words, you want to be that person from the bottom of your heart. This is the most important and crucial first step to become a qualified literary youth.

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