Signal Hill Theater

Back to the first day before everything happened Recommended by Bai Shuangquan and Dong Xinguo! A person who combines so many abilities in one body should be a genius, and I think it is shameful for him to do a dead job. — Bai Shuangquan (artist) If you want to divide life into sweet and bitter, this book mentions more about bitterness, but if you can write out the bitterness of life like the author, you will find that bitterness can also be shared, and sharing itself is a joy. —Dong Xinguo (college student, bus fan) "Signal Hill Theater" is the first personal collection of that Lin Zhaorong——that Lin Zhaorong may be an artist, a writer, an actor, a Bajiao road rubber, a driver and a lecturer... . The road traveled in the book shapes all of Lin Zhaorong above, each chapter is an important repertoire in his life, and different identities are staged in turn-or the chaos is closer to the truth of a person. In the novel "Signal Hill Theatre", the graduate of the design department "Qi" followed the footsteps of his ex-girlfriend "Xia" (in various senses) and became a boring theater administrator. He struggled to follow the rules of the game in his youthful days. Like a ferry that has never been to free seas. Love never returns without warning, and Qi can only stay with the documents she left behind. "Before the First Day" contains Lin Zhaorong's travel essays. His footprints range from the local area to all over the world. Playfulness seems to be the main theme of travel, but he is extremely serious. He draws a world map with his own coordinates, and the unique transportation of railways and buses method, both practical knowledge and niche interest. The short story "Glennari" even made the streets of Hong Kong speak in the form of a picture book. "Scout Jumping on the Trampoline" is the author's carefully selected "Ming Pao" column, which records the madness of the times with jokes. All the pictures in the book are hand-painted by Lin Zhaorong, and the landscapes are painted into stills with one stroke. The different chapters of "Signal Hill Theatre" are screened along the road, and frame after frame of stills hints at the "growth" of the characters——Ki, whose painting style is becoming more and more proficient, has changed from being full of ideals to being submissive. Readers may be fascinated by the realistic Hong Kong night scene paintings Deceived, can also read how he deceived himself. The "Scout Trampoline" drawn with a blue ballpoint pen is casual and whimsical. The wooden crayon used in childhood depicts the lovely street scene in Mid-Levels West in the eyes of children. The author's preference for city walks. Dong Xinguo would think that "Signal Mountain Theater" is a love story, while Bai Shuangquan thinks it is a warm-up for the next ten books by a talented author. As Lin Zhaorong said, the time described in the book is as strange and alienated as ancient times. Looking back at those "outdated words" now, although they are some life puzzles that happened in the past and can only be in the past, in reality, By reading, obsessing and gazing, we may be able to re-recognize the present that was born of fiction.