Chapter 945: Obsessed with Fairy Tales

It was two days later that Lu Yuer got the contents of The Little Prince. In fact, the full text of The Little Prince is very short, only about 40,000 words. However, Luoyang had to write the story and draw illustrations for the story, so the speed was a bit slow.

The desk lamp was on.

Lu Yuer opened The Little Prince.

The first thing that caught her eyes was the preface of The Little Prince: [We are busy all day long, like a group of soulless flies, noisy and restless, unable to hear the voice deep in our souls. Time passes, childhood fades away, we grow up gradually, the years take away many memories, and also erode the childish innocence that once existed in our hearts. We ignore the shackles of the soul, indulge in the vanity of the world, focus on the law of interests, and we lose ourselves. ]

Organizing the way of translation quickly in her mind, Lu Yuer continued to read.

Because before translating, she needs to read the story first, only in this way can she complete the translation of The Little Prince with the highest efficiency.

The criticism and reflection of the adult world in "The Little Prince" unfolds from two perspectives. One is the perspective of the narrator "I". In the eyes of "I", adults have been completely overwhelmed by worldly affairs. They have lost their colorful imagination and cannot enjoy the fun of life. Even their IQ seems to be constantly degenerating.

For example:

Adults judge whether a view is correct or not based on people's clothes rather than facts and reasoning: the same view is correct when it is said by a person in a suit and leather shoes; it is wrong when it is said by a person in ragged clothes.

Another example:

You introduce a house to adults and say, "I saw a beautiful house with red brick walls, geraniums planted in front of the window, and pigeons on the roof..." They will turn a deaf ear and have no reaction. But if you say, "I saw a house worth 10 million." Their eyes will light up immediately and they will exclaim, "What a beautiful house!"

This fairy tale is really interesting.

Lu Yuer raised the corners of her mouth and continued to read it. Soon, the perspective switched to the little prince.

The little prince passed by the first planet. On this planet, there was a king without any soldiers. When the king saw the little prince, he immediately shouted: "Ah, here comes a subject."

"He has never seen me before, how can he know me?"

The little prince did not know that in the eyes of those kings, the world was very simple: all people were subjects.

The little prince looked around and wanted to find a place to sit down, but the whole planet was occupied by the king's gorgeous white fur robe with black flowers. He had to stand there, but because he was tired, he yawned.

The king said to him: "I forbid you to yawn."

The little prince said ashamedly: "I really can't help it. I have come here for a long time and haven't slept yet."

The king said: "Well, I order you to yawn. I haven't seen anyone yawning for many years. Yawning is a novelty for me. Come on, yawn again! This is an order."

...

Lu Yuer was thoughtful.

The first story tells about a king who likes to give orders.

The king is a symbol of the ruler. The little prince has to get his approval to yawn or not yawn. In fact, it is not important to yawn or not. What is important is that you must obey the king's "order" to yawn or not. This kind of tyrannical "power supremacy" is the characteristic of all rule; a vain person is an extremely narcissistic person. His only goal in life is to accept the worship of others.

This irony.

It's really spicy!

With the gradually rising interest, Lu Yuer continued to read:

The second story tells the story of a vain person. This vain person shouted from a distance when he saw the little prince, "Oh! Someone who admires me is visiting!"

In the eyes of those vain people, others have become their admirers.

The vain man was wearing a hat, so the little prince said, "Hello, your hat is very strange."

"It's for greeting people." The vain man replied, "When people cheer for me, I greet them with my hat. Unfortunately, no one has passed by here yet."

The little prince didn't understand what he meant and said, "Ah? Really?"

The vain man suggested to the little prince, "Use one hand to clap the other hand."

The little prince heard this and began to clap his hands. Seeing the little prince clapping, the vain man humbly raised his hat to greet the little prince, with a very gentlemanly gesture...

Seeing this, Lu Yuer couldn't help laughing.

She naturally said to herself, "As the book says, all vain people have others become their admirers."

The story continues: [The little prince thought to himself, "This is more interesting than visiting the king." So he clapped again. The vain man raised his hat to greet him again.

The little prince did this for five minutes.

After that, the little prince got a little tired of this monotonous trick, and said, "How can I make your hat fall off?"

But this time, the vain man would not listen to him, because all vain people only listen to compliments. He turned to ask the little prince: "Do you really admire me?"

"What does admiration mean?"

"Admiration, it's very simple, that is, you have to admit that I am the most beautiful person on this planet, the best dressed person on this planet, the richest person on this planet, and the smartest person."

"But you are the only one on your planet!"

"Let me be happy, please come and admire me!"

The little prince lightly shrugged his shoulders and said: "I admire you, but is there anything in this that can interest you so much? These adults are really weird..."]

"Please praise me, please admire me!"

"Anyone who loves vanity can only listen to words of praise."

"These words are so precise. No wonder Luoyang said in an interview that this new work is more suitable for adults, because there are many satires in it that children cannot read. Only sophisticated adults can read this work. I realized how ridiculous I was in front of the fairy tale, and even I felt a faint uncomfortable feeling in my heart when I read this fairy tale, as if I had been seen through..."

Previously, Lu Yuer told Luoyang that she was obsessed with fairy tales recently.

In fact, there is a certain amount of joking in it. Although "The Fairy Tale King" is interesting, it is written for children after all, and it is not enough to make Lu Yu'er addicted. But now that she has seen "The Little Prince", Lu Yu'er has really become addicted to fairy tales——

She continued to read.