Surviving as a Writer in the British Empire - Surviving as a Writer in the British Empire chapter 27

Mark Twain(3)

“Then, writer, take good care of your health until we see you next time.”

“ha ha ha! Don’t worry. I was born under Halley’s Comet, so when I die, the comet will be there to meet me. I will never die before that!”

No, that’s superstition. Can a nobleman known as an Enlightenment believe in such astrology?

However, Mark Twain’s appearance was more confident than anyone else, and despite his unscientific appearance, he strangely gave people confidence.

Well, now that I think about it, who is talking about astrology and non-science… I am not a decent time refugee.

Supernaturally speaking, I’m a more bizarre case.

I nodded my head like that and saw off the Enlightenment who believed in astrology.

Really, is it because you’re an American? It was a nobleman like a storm until the end.

Anyway, then.

“Now, science is secured…”

I took a note out of my pocket. On it were written five words, two of which were circled.

Of course, one is math and one is science.

Now the problem is the remaining three… As I pondered over the writing instrument, Bentley looked at me from the side and said.

“History, language, economy.”

“Yes.”

These are learning comics subjects that worked well in Korea as well. It won’t be eaten in this era.

Of course, I will be in charge of history, especially the Far East.

I don’t know all of them, but at least in this era, no one can handle these two better than me.

“The problem is the economy…”

Who is a novelist who is bright in economics in this era? no, did you have one?

As I struggled, Mr. Bentley, who had come out to see off Mark Twain, approached me and asked.

“I still don’t get it. Why did you leave out literature?”

“People aren’t watching.”

I said confidently.

Bentley was dumbfounded with eyes asking what a writer would say, but it’s real.

The core of bondi learning books is to sell shallow and wide.

The economy is a prime example. In the economic learning comics, Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman are lightly licked, but they don’t deal with nobles like Gregory Menkyu and John Nash.

However, literature is difficult to deal with so thinly and broadly.

In the first place, there is a fact that people who are not interested in poetry or novels do not read it well, but the biggest problem is that it is unclear what exactly to deal with.

Most of what is in the textbook? Or, as someone who became a turning point in history? What about copyright?

Above all, it is that children can memorize literature by memorization, not appreciation, as they learned in middle school and high school, if they make a mistake.

What happened to the CSAT problem made of a literature textbook that revolves around memorization, it became a problem that even the original author could not solve, only revealing the evils of memorization-oriented education.

Originally, a work can and should have various impressions, such as intentionalism, which accepts the contents intended by the writer, and anti-intentionalism, which gives more weight to the interpretation of the reader who sees and accepts it.

······Well, if you really really want to make something, there’s no way.

Roughly gathering literary people, making them namesake characters and having them do battles with special abilities with their own works, putting them on a bus and reviving them by turning the clock…

However, if that happened, it would be a huge effort to get into, and probably no one could write it except me, so I decided to postpone this for now.

“Anyway, let’s expand gradually. There is no guarantee that science will be successful just because math is successful, and science will be successful, right?”

“Hmm, wouldn’t that be too conservative a business expansion, Mr. Author?”

“Then, shall I stop the manuscript I am writing now and focus on it?”

“Well, that is a brilliant idea, author! As expected, the business is growing one by one!”

It’s a quick change of attitude like a businessman. Seeing the editor-in-chief rubbing his hands together, I agreed with a grin, ‘As expected, right?’

Anyway, learning books are tricky enough that you can’t just say that you’re a writer with excellent writing skills.

Because it is a job that can be done with a general knowledge of the field as a base.

It is rare to find an all-round talent that satisfies both at the same time.

To be precise, it’s not rare, but the problem is that people like that aren’t easy enough to be scouted by me.

Lewis Carroll and Mark Twain should be said to be bizarre human figures.

So, let’s take it slow. slowly.

＜Peter Perry＞ is still only volume 3+a. There’s still a long way to go before it’s finished.

“Come to think of it, Mr. Bentley, what happened to ‘that’ Foundation?’

“Ah, as you said, we are preparing.”

The foundation meant an educational charity and welfare foundation that was created with part of the royalties generated from the sale of ＜King Arthur and the Knight of Mathematics＞.

Overall, a large-scale project that focuses on donations for the education of orphans and low-income families, and plans to slowly build kindergartens and elementary schools in the East End.

Of course, I didn’t mean to do this from the beginning.

A contract with Lewis Carroll… No, should I say a favor? It would be close to fulfilling it.

In the first place, neither that side nor this side had any intention of touching a lot of money with this, so it came about…

Anyway, the man is also very good, so he said that he would trust me, but he didn’t even write a contract and just trust me and leave it to me.

Seriously, I don’t know if a person with an epiphobia can trust others so well.

—Now, you, Mi, can be trusted.

—No, I am a grown adult myself.

—Ha, but… a person who knows how to protect a child.

─·······.

-I will believe you. Hans.

Subtly, little by little, the stuttering disappeared.

Anyway, since I started, I just decided to do it properly.

so······.

“What happened to the advertisement we talked about earlier?”

“hahahaha, as you said, it is underway. Originally, there is no side to me or your side when it comes to educating children. Both the Daily Telegraph and the Times are so tired that they are anxious to donate.”

“It’s good.”

“By the way, setting up a charity fund. How did you come up with that idea? Didn’t author Lewis Carroll even suggest a method? Even adding to the royalties of the writer…”

“Even so, it’s not all of it, but some of it.”

“Nevertheless. If you think about the actual sales… wouldn’t that amount be staggering?”

Bentley looked at me with bright eyes as if looking at a saint or a great man.

Ooh, burdensome.

I shrugged and said.

“Well, it’s nothing. It is an investment in the first place.”

“Investment?”

At my words, Mr. Bentley tilts his head as if he doesn’t know what I’m talking about.

Ah, don’t you know?

Even if he had a superior, he hadn’t thought about it until this point.

No, maybe this is the default in this era. It was an era when people thought that poverty was entirely the responsibility of the individual.

So I brought up the story lightly, as if it was nothing, so that Mr. Bentley could easily understand.

“Honestly, isn’t the illiteracy rate high in London, especially in the East End?”

“Well, that’s right.”

After the Industrial Revolution, literacy rates in London declined considerably.

Developed printing technology lowers the price of books, and a cheap and short-lived culture is formed for a large number of workers gathered in the center of the city.

This is the era in which the concept of ‘cultural life’, such as magic shows and movies, that more diverse people can enjoy in their leisure time was born.

However, that is a story compared to the ’18th century’.

Despite all this, the reality is that people who struggle to make ends meet cannot even read penny books sold at kiosks at train stations.

The ‘potential customer base’ created by such a high illiteracy rate, which could well become a customer base… From my point of view as a popular writer, it is indeed meat that is a waste to miss.

“A three-year-old has a habit of going to eighty, isn’t it that you have to make it a habit to read books? Even now, many people don’t even know the letters, so we lose that many potential customers.”

The 21st century I lived in was just like that. The illiteracy rate is low, but the reading rate has plummeted as people spend more time on video media than books, and there are many people who do not read long texts.

Considering that even in modern Britain, about 20% of the population is illiterate, it is no wonder that it is more serious than this.

Besides, instead of getting better, it only got worse. Apparently, the competitors are things like Nutube, Dick Dog, and Netflix… and because of that, the market on this side has also shrunk tremendously.

So this fund and charity is like pumping water into the pump.

If you get into the habit of reading. No, even if you can read letters, it will be much easier to increase potential readers, and the feeling will be greater than in the future.

If you are a person who writes for the 99% of the public, not living with the patronage of the 1% of the nobility like in the Renaissance, you have no choice but to think of the public.

“Huh, potential customers… that’s amazing. I never thought of that.”

Mr. Bentley nodded as if he had received a revelation.

“More than anything. It’s the love I received from the people of London, so I can reciprocate that much.”

“······Author!”

“Please ask me to write it down on the advertisement.”

“Author…”

Bentley looked at me with cold eyes, but I just turned my head away.

what why? Isn’t that what you’re all about to eat and live?

Hypocrisy is also a line, and from the perspective of the recipient, moving hypocrisy is better than non-moving line.

“After all, money is not infinite. So we have to make it a social phenomenon, not just us. Please hit all the advertisements that can be hit and get the most donations.”

“of course. There are already a lot of bait people.”

“Good.”

Taking care of justification as a representative, saving money, and even smooth collection due to the expansion of the market as a result!

This is like eating a pheasant and eating an egg.

After all, there is no one who does not get caught in the excuse of ‘for the sake of the children’.

Bentley sneakily spoke to me who was laughing like that.

“Come to think of it, writer. With a little help from the author, there is one way that I think we can fill the donations in no time.”

“yes? Is there such a thing?”

I opened my eyes wide.

No, there is such a way, but why did you keep your mouth shut?

Then Mr. Bentley looked at me with a strange smile.

“However, I thought that method might be a bit of a nuisance to the writer…”

“I can fill it up quickly, so what does that matter? That, as long as the face is not exposed.”

“Oh, not like that.”

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Bentley smirked and smiled very brightly.

“Your face will never be revealed.”

I am.

I should have listened to it properly.