silent melody

"A muffled bang broke through the sleepy sleep in my head,

I awoke suddenly from my swoon,

Like a man suddenly startled from sleep.

I opened my eyes and looked around,

I stood up and watched,

Trying to figure out where I am. "

"Francois..."

"Why, little madman, don't you like me reading poetry to you?"

"This delicate time... no."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau put down the books and magazines he was still packing, and looked at the person sitting in the high-back chair with a smile.Voltaire put down his collection of poems, ending his helpless expression with his customary worldly smile.

Early 20th Century.The Common Memoirs of Human Beings The United Association of Incarnated Individuals, French Pavilion.An ordinary autumn evening.The dark clouds outside the window cover the bare trees and fallen leaves, while inside the house are dim lights and two people standing silently.

"Pack up the supplies to go to that place? Now it's your turn for this sequence?"

"Yes."

"But that is the edge of the valley of the abyss of pain, the abyss that gathers the endless complaints that are loud and loud-permit me to continue reading this poem, Jean, because it is so suitable for the place you are going to."

"No, it's not the same." Rousseau raised his head, "Although they are both called 'Limbo', the 'Limbo' in the memoir materialized individual is different from the 'Limbo' in the Divine Comedy Hell. Although ...named it after the Hell Requisition, without exaggerating the suffering of the 'Limber' who embodied the memoir."

"They are not guilty; but even if they have merit, it is of no use, because they have never been baptized, and baptism is the beginning of the religion you believe in." Voltaire ignored Rousseau's defense and continued to read poetry.

"100 years after we fell asleep, we were selected to become memoir materialized individuals... But in the face of history, is 100 years enough? The recorded history is often not equal to the truth, and 100 years often cannot allow one kind of prejudice to replace another A kind of prejudice. The world of memoir materialized individuals is an island in the ocean where the present world and the other world—that is, the world of the dead—are located. In order to correct the shortcomings that 100 years may bring, the founders of the original common memoir An unnamed island is set up on the edge of the world of memoir materialized individuals to accommodate those who have the potential to become memoir materialized individuals, but need more than 100 years of investigation time, which is the so-called Pre-Memoir. They ..."

"The island where they are located has never been named, just as they have not been known to the world for a long time. It was not until Mr. Dante came to the association that he named it 'Limber'—Jean," Voltaire added in one breath Finished Rousseau's potential lines, "It's not that I don't know this, I just think of the unbearable past from your ramblings... Candidates cannot be kept there indefinitely. About 200 years after their death date, They will disappear in thin air. This kind of sadness of waiting makes people unable to look directly. You don't understand or know that I witnessed the pain of Mrs. Chatelet being swallowed by Lin Bo...! Facing the torture that was close at hand, she chose Give up 100 years of waiting, give up the chance to reunite with me, and re-enter the reincarnation of the world on the other side... the sad place, but I can't avoid it. Because Lin Bo is completely isolated from the world, only we in the association can provide them with supplies ;The sad scene is not willing to be faced by memoir materialized individuals, so the association decided that the curators of each country, as well as the contract administrators of the common memoir of mankind—that is, you, Mr. Locke and Mr. Hobbs, should jointly undertake the task of material transportation .It's not that I'm heartless, but the old memories make me have to put down the supplies every time and turn around and leave..."

Voltaire paused for a while, collected himself, and continued to read in the original calm tone, "It is because of these defects and not because of other sins that we are robbed and punished only for this. Let us live in hopelessness, and our wishes will never be fulfilled."

"François, I'm sure I can feel your misfortune...but, even so," said Rousseau, attaching the catalog to the bundle of parcels, "I'll be there every time I'm on duty Stay for a while. Because... because there is someone there that I miss so much. I won't bother you by telling you his name, because I'm probably the only person in the world who remembers that name."

There was a silence.Only the sound of Voltaire turning the pages of the book and the rustling wind outside the window.

"I want you to know that no human soul was spared before them. — Phew!"

Voltaire's reading was interrupted by the sound of objects falling suddenly.Rousseau also hurriedly looked back to see what items had dropped.

It was a yellowed letter that fell from this old Dante's "Divine Comedy: Inferno".The envelope was already brittle, and the writing on it was faintly blurred.

"Oh my god, this was 20 years ago..."

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background:

The fifth song of the Inferno of the Divine Comedy, namely "Limbo", is the main source of inspiration for "The Melody of Silence". Dante followed Virgil's travels in Limbo in Hell and saw the ancient sages, but he couldn't save him. ; and what hurt Dante the most was that his beloved mentor was also deeply involved.The story of the whole novel is very similar to this poem.

The author has something to say:

This is a story about promoting classical music/Baroque music/Late Baroque Italian music/Venice school in the early 18th century [mistake], the style is an extremely depressive sadism [mistake], the content is interspersed with music and religion, and the general expression is forgotten How baroque music, nearly three centuries old, was revived under the shadows of World War I and World War II [mistake], how a great/slightly overweight German musician built his harem in crisis and tried to save his dear [True] of Italian predecessors.

The story brought this time is still based on the RHUMA world view and expanded on this basis. The characters from "Wings of the Aether", "Portrait in Two Mirrors", and "The Burning Sky" will still appear, but they will not be the protagonists; the protagonists, and even the main supporting characters, have a new look, because the novel has moved from the world of philosophers and scientists. Leaving, came to the side of a group of musicians.

The total number of chapters is about fifteen chapters, and every three chapters is a part. The name of each part implies the tone of this part.

Chapter 1 mainly introduces the world view.Since the first part of "Autumn" is basically Voltaire and Rousseau showing their affection, everyone should bear with it (the real protagonist will appear when the story reaches 8000 characters==|||).The main CP of this novel... everyone said it was abusive...

Repeat the world view again:

The novel is about an organization called the United Association of Human Memoirs Entity Individuals (RHUMA for short).Those who have made great contributions to the cause of mankind can re-walk on this long-lost land in the form of a "memoir materialized individual" 100 years after their death.Their task is to teach future humans.The position of the association should be said to be a different world without time and space, which is connected to the real world. Memoir materialized individuals can freely enter and exit it, but humans cannot.

So RHUMA is the abbreviation of theRealizedHumanUniversalMemoirAssociation.

In short, the dead live in a different world in the form of humanoid books, and can come to the real world.Which is to say modern.