Book review: "Black Myth: The Egg of the Wild" - This is the real "black", even despair can't find a foothold. I am a standard lover of dark epics. I have watched "Game of Thrones" and read "Dune". I pride myself on being immune to "darkness" and "despair". Until I clicked on the book and saw the first sentence: "The first sound of the universe was not the trumpet of creation, but a scream of pain." Then came the second sentence: "We are cancer cells, parasitic on the corpse of God." I was pinned directly in front of the screen. 1. Its "blackness" is absolutely "black" in logic. The most powerful thing about this book is that it constructs a dark universe with self-consistent logic and impeccable logic. It is not dark for the sake of darkness, but uses the dual main lines of "Dewdrops" (the source of cancer mutations) and "Zero Light" (the fire of resistance) to reinterpret all events in human history - from Zhuang Zhou's Dream of Butterflies to the Three Kingdoms. Every allusion and every character has become a footnote to this dark logic. - Qin Shihuang's unification was the victory of the "violent proliferation subtype" of cancer; - Liu Bei's crossing the river with his people was Ling Guang's "awakening of benevolence"; - Even the "snake seducing Eve" in the Bible became a dewdrop program to activate human beings' "cancer cell instinct". This logical closed loop of "interpreting all light as darkness" is the most nerve-wracking thing. 2. Its "despair" is the ultimate "despair" in philosophy. The despair of this book is not the shallow despair of "the protagonist is dead" or "the world is destroyed". Its despair makes you start to doubt: "We think we are fighting cancer, but in fact we are just helping cancer write papers on immune escape." It makes you realize that all your efforts, all your goodwill, and all your resistance may just be the self-optimization of "cancer cells" on the scale of the universe. This kind of despair is deep in the bone marrow, because it denies even "hope" itself. 3. Its "epic sense" is "grand" across time and space. The layout of this book is very large, from the "Binding Sound" of the birth of the universe, to the "Zero Light Awakening" in the Three Kingdoms period, to the future "Mars colonization", the time span runs through the past, present and future. It combines Chinese mythology, Western religion, and modern science fiction, but perfectly serves the core theme of "cancer and resistance". This sense of grandeur across time and space will make you involuntarily feel a sense of awe that "human beings are so small" when reading. 4. Written for you who are still hesitating. If you like to read "cool articles" and "the protagonist cheats all the way", then this book may not be suitable for you. But if you like works that are in-depth, thoughtful, and worth chewing over and over again, then you must not miss this book. It may subvert your cognition, may make you feel uncomfortable, and may even make you fall into silence for a long time after closing the book. But that's the beauty of it - it's not a book to be read for fun, but a book to remember. Finally, I will end with a quote from the book: "The real black myth is not 'we are sick', but 'we know we are sick, but even the concept of 'health' is an illusion caused by illness."
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