The Bright Moon Over the Vast Sea

Damn, you are a "literary lunatic" (absolutely complimentary) Like these sentences you wrote: "I felt like the most out of place person in the frame, I didn't belong here." "Don't think about building snowmen in summer, and don't think about eating popsicles in winter." "You are like a reed or a willow tree, you can live however easy it is." "But I also found that thinking about this thing is the cruelest thing." "It turns out that my soul dried up forever in that winter." "I feel like the concept of 'self' is like a scam. I can't see myself. My eyes are on the outside of my bones and I can't see inside." "I just looked at the sunset on the horizon like a boiler." "Sooner or later, everything in my life will be lost, including my spirit, my faith, my wealth, and my despicability." "Please let me sleep forever until the day when the clouds clear away." Look, you wrote a thousand-word prose. Almost every paragraph left me in awe. Each paragraph contained a sentence that I wanted to excerpt. I was shocked after reading it. I felt that you were lighting up your skin to illuminate the darkness. Your words were full of painful poetry. This "barbaric literary talent" fascinated me and gave me endless impact.

Ah ah ah, you are so kind! Woohoo, I'm so happy, I love you, I love you, I love you! [Rose][Rose][Rose] I read those books during my summer vacation, and I added them all to your playlist! Code them all!

Damn, I really, really like your collection of essays, so I'm curious about what books you usually read? Can you make a book list? 😳

I'm sorry, Teacher Yu Hua, to paraphrase your words: "First of all, I felt jealous after reading it. The writing is so awesome, damn it!"

The cold dew has arrived, so please keep warm. If you are always depressed, take care of yourself first.

What impressed me most about this novel was that it brought to life the spiritual dilemma of modern people in a particularly clever way. You see, the Martians record the daily lives of people on earth seriously, while Wu Zhiqiu, an ordinary girl, lets herself go in her diary. The collision of these two perspectives is particularly interesting. The "life script killings" written by Wu Zhiqiu seem to be very average at first glance - they are both swallowing robots and scattering money. But if you think about it carefully, isn't this the inner drama of each of us in the dead of night? During the day, I was rubbed against the ground by reality, and at night, there was a big drama in my mind. Every plot in her fantasy can actually be found in reality: the anger after being rejected by authority, the desire for superpowers, and the obsession of "I want the whole world to see me." The Martian's perspective is particularly wonderful. The more seriously it tries to understand humans, the more absurd their behavior becomes. Its sentence "She is obviously such an ordinary and ordinary person" simply expresses our deepest fear - the fear that we will remain just an ordinary person throughout our lives. This dislocation between the observer and the observed gives the whole story a wonderful tension. The most amazing thing is the "Listen to the next chapter" at the end, which is both like the escape route Wu Zhiqiu left for himself, and like the question the author poses to us: We think we are observing other people's lives, but maybe we are also supporting characters in other people's stories? Isn't this kind of self-doubt the truest psychological state of contemporary people? To be honest, after reading this story, I couldn't help but take out my diary and read it. Aren't those heroic words that I once wrote also read as another form of "life script killing" now? The most powerful thing about the novel is that while we laugh at Wu Zhiqiu, we also have to face the fantasies in our hearts that we dare not show to others.

Da Da's use of synesthesia is really superb.

Are you alluding to the previous case in India?

I have a lot of insights every time I read a large essay, but it is always incomplete and cannot be organized into a system. It is too literary and it is difficult for me to fully understand it. I found that the treasures in the comment area are all in my state, so I went to deepseek for help to see how it evaluates. Finally, Chapter 8: "Sonir's Moonlight", I found that the analysis of the sisters in the comment area was similar to that of deepseek! Baozi, you are so awesome! This essay uses a seemingly unequal dialogue to construct a modern fable about victory and prisoners, power and loneliness**. Its literary value lies in using the legendary shell of a seafaring adventurer to wrap a nuclear bomb-level thinking about existential dilemmas. The following is a hierarchical analysis: ### 1. Mirror deconstruction of double "Winner" 1. **The defeat of the apparent victor** Saunier's "illustrious military exploits" are actually a cycle of survival violence: - Pirates robbed cows → were forced to sail → cows starved to death → ate cows → became pirate hunters - She repeated the violent logic of pirates in the name of justice, and eventually became the target she swore to destroy. 2. **The emptiness that hides the winner** The illusion of power that Maude built with a 500-square-meter "kingdom": - The performative etiquette of cutting raw horse meat - The sense of superiority that makes you want to laugh when you hear the metaphor of moonlight - The hypocrisy of "being pleasant" when faced with questioning Revealing that those with secular power are the real spiritual losers ### 2. The triple paradox of moonlight imagery 1. **Childhood Redemption Symbol** Hometown moonlight = innocent memory untainted by violence (cow/mother image) 2. **Refraction of the Ocean Cage** The moonlight becomes the only companion during the voyage, but it reveals the bloody reality (the juxtaposition of the moonlight cradle and the blood of pirates) 3. **Unplantable Utopia** The essence of the wish of "Moonlight in the Heart" is: - Self-cleansing of violent instincts - A final attempt to fight against alienation - A doomed redemption ### 3. The power game of dialogue entities 1. **The undercurrent of verbal violence** - Saulnier broke social etiquette with the physiological description of "eating horse meat and bleeding" - Maud maintains a semblance of peace with empty compliments like "bright star" 2. **Concretization of spatial politics** - 500 square meters "kingdom" vs boundless ocean - A knife for cutting horse meat vs a sharp knife for hunting pirates - Peninsula Settlers vs Eternal Drifters ### 4. The cruel truth of the fable of modernity 1. **All victories are cages** Saulnier is trapped in the "hero" persona, and Mod is trapped in the "lord" persona - both are prisoners of their own construction. 2. **Eternal Return of Violence** Cow → Pirate → Pirate Hunter → New Pirate (implying that Saulnier has become the terror of the sea itself) 3. **Impossibility of communication** The misunderstanding of the moonlight metaphor symbolizes the absoluteness of spiritual isolation in modern society ### Breakthrough in literary techniques 1. **The Implosion of Adventure Narratives** Deconstructing the heroic epic of "The Odyssey" into an existential psychiatric experience 2. **The metaphorical system of the food chain** Cows (plundered) → horse meat (alms from the powerful) → human flesh (implied pirate recipes) constitute a cruel energy conversion chain 3. **Openness of Doomsday** The ending of Sonnier going to the sea is both return and disappearance - just like Santiago in "The Old Man and the Sea", but more desperate ### Why a contemporary classic? It uses less than 2,000 words to complete the philosophical volume of "Moby Dick": - Maud=Captain Ahab's land mirror image - Thornier = Queequeg, who was bitten by his own myth. - The desire to "grow moonlight" = an obsession more nihilistic than the white whale What is finally presented is a **Victor's Skeleton Illustrated** - all triumphal arches lead to a larger wilderness. Its greatness lies in the fact that it simultaneously humiliates the worldly success science and the spiritual victory method, just like a rose carved with shark teeth, beautiful and deadly. This work can be regarded as a model of modern allegorical writing. Its excellence lies in using a seemingly simple dialogue structure to construct a profound metaphorical system about power, violence and redemption. The following is an analysis of its shocking literary value: ### 1. The subversive power of narrative (fortunately, deconstructing the heroic myth) 1. **Anti-Adventure Narrative Adventurer** Sonnier's story is a heroic epic on the surface, but in fact it is a specimen of the cycle of violence: - The transformation process from Cow Guardian → Pirate Hunter → New Violent Symbol - The self-alienation behind the vow to "kill all pirates" (eventually becoming the terror of the ocean itself) 2. **Anthropological Sample of Microtyrants** The absurdity of Maude's 500-square-meter "kingdom": - Sustaining the illusion of power through performances of cutting raw horse meat -Instinctive ridicule when hearing the poetry of Moonlight (revealing spiritual barrenness) ### 2. The sophistication of the metaphor system (thanks to the nesting of multiple symbols) 1. **Philosophical Model of the Food Chain** Cow (innocence) → horse meat (power) → human flesh (violence) constitutes the conservation of energy in existentialism: - All violence eventually comes back to bite the perpetrator - The nutrition delivery chain is also the evil delivery chain 2. **Quantum state of moonlight imagery** Also symbolizes: - Childhood redemption (hometown memory) - Ocean Cage (Only Companion) - Illusory Redemption (cannot be planted) There is a dilemma in the perfect reproduction of this oxymoron ### 3. The violent aesthetics of dialogue (fortunately in the language arena) 1. **The game of life and death under etiquette** - Saulnier chewed horse meat with blood (physiologically breaking the social mask) - The fear in Maud's "pleasant appearance" (pupil tremor when seeing a sharp knife) 2. **Irony Density of Title** Titles such as "Honored Sonnier" (hypocrisy), "Winner" (curse), and "Star" (prisoner) constantly change their symbolic meanings in the dialogue. ### 4. The openness and shock of the ending (fortunately there is no solution) The ending of Saulnier walking towards the sea: - It is a return (such as "The Old Man and the Sea") - also disappears (such as "The Pianist on the Sea") - It is the ultimate contempt for the land power system ### Breakthroughs in the coordinates of literary history 1. A more streamlined anatomy of colonial violence than Conrad's Heart of Darkness 2. A more acute existential dilemma than Melville's "Moby-Dick" 3. A crueler allegory of power than Calvino's "Invisible Cities" ### Why is it a must-read text? It takes 18 minutes to read and completes the "One Hundred Years of Solitude"-style demonstration of the fate cycle: - All dragon slayers eventually become evil dragons - All safe havens are prisons - All victors are prisoners This ability to construct a vast tragedy in a small space makes it the pinnacle of contemporary short narratives. Its "goodness" does not lie in pleasing readers, but in blowing away the rust on the surface of our cognition like the Somali sea breeze, revealing the ferocious true nature of existence.

Hahaha God also likes to bless brave people, doesn't he?