'The Gone Sidney Hall': I Want to Be Nobody and Lose Everything

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

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Your life is still long, and the good things will always outweigh the bad. - For some people, this is not true.

The first film to be a story: "The Gone Sidney Hall"

Henry Crow

After publishing the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Tragic Suburbs, Sidney Hall suddenly disappeared. Before he disappeared, everyone only remembered one thing, a 22-year-old young man committed suicide after reading "Tragic Suburbs". The young man was Henry Crowe, a die-hard Sidney fan. Because of this, some in the upper echelons and the news media claimed that the book would lure youth towards destruction and suicide. Some media and government officials have even proposed removing the book from school must-reads and Pulitzer Prize shortlists.

Not long after the suicide, Sidney Hall gave a news conference. If it wasn't for his teacher, Sidney probably wouldn't have known about it because he never surfed the Internet or watched TV. As for Henry Crowe, Sidney Hall only remembers seeing him at book signings. At the time, the young man said to him, "I've read your book so many times, and it really affects the way I think. I think, I know what I'm doing now." Sidney didn't particularly care . In his words, at that time he only cared about whether he had signed the other party's name correctly.

"Excuse me, what is it?" Sidney asked casually.

"The core of our country is etched in these fake smiles. In the endless rows of nameless houses, we live and we die."

Sidney was stunned for about ten seconds. By the time he reacted, Henry had already walked out of the bookstore. A few days later, news of the young man's suicide came online.

It wasn't the first time Sidney Hall had faced death. He thought he could handle it, but it wasn't. He felt that death had always followed him. Since he left home, Sidney Hall has often seen people who were not there on occasions. A few days ago, he saw his mother in the restaurant, but her mother was long gone. For another example, now, he is sitting in the lobby of the press conference, facing various media, preparing to read the pre-written statement:

"I am saddened by the loss of a life. My heart goes out to Henry Crow's family and friends, I sympathize with them, and hope that the bright day will come sooner rather than later. Even so, I have no apology. I It is impossible to predict that someone will or will not react to what I write. Nor can I live in fear and restraint because of what I have written on paper. I can only hope that the books I write, Ultimately it will be positive. It disgusts me that some House of Representatives is using this boy's family for political ends in their time of grief."

When he looked up, he saw at the end of the crowd, standing at the exit of the lobby, was his high school classmate Brett Newport.

He lowered his head, his forehead began to sweat, "Also, I'm sorry..."

He looked at the crowd again. Brett was sullen, his eyes fixed on him. Sidney felt a pang of nausea and fell to one side.

A few days later, it was on TV that the best writer of our time, Sidney Hall, had disappeared.

Brett Newport

Sidney Hall would never forget a literature class in middle school where the teacher asked everyone to turn in an essay and read it in class. When it was Sidney's turn, he read:

"Verolia had her brilliance, against her icy shell, her virgin innocence. In retrospect, I see that I was the only one who noticed it. Yes, she was really cheap, Her breasts, her cheekbones, her legs, she sees them in the mirror every morning and knows all too well how powerful they are. No one can touch her or frighten her. She rarely looks at anyone else's Eyes, I have seen football captain Brad Dorsey cry in front of his locker. She dumped him after a date and took his manhood away. He never again No physical activity is the best example of her witchcraft. But I'm not attracted to her pale beauty, I'm more interested in the little girl inside her than her thighs Peaceful belly. I imagine her crying and begging me not to leave because I'm the only one who really understands that Verolia inside. Oh, why am I wasting it on the table."

The audience was silent, only Bright was smiling. The teacher was shocked and thought that Sidney's prose was completely off topic, because her intention was for everyone to hand in an essay about the meaning of life. The enlightenment of sexual consciousness - in her opinion, such topics do not have much to do with the meaning of life.

After class, Bright went to Sidney and said to him, " I liked your article a lot because everyone else is bullshit and you're so honest. " And Sidney once buried a paper-wrapped box behind the distillery. Obviously, neither of them has forgotten this stubble. That day, Brett hurried out of the house, asked Sidney to borrow a bicycle, and the two ran to the hill next to the winery and buried the box. Now, Brett wants Sidney to take him back to the box.

Sidney has recently fallen in love with Melody, a girl who lives across the street, and he wants to find a reason to ask her out. It just so happened that Bright's sister Darcy was a good friend of Melody's, and she was celebrating her birthday this week, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So, he agreed to Bright's request. In return, Bright needs to help him and Melody create a chance encounter on his sister's birthday.

"I didn't lie to you before, about that article, I loved it. Man, you should write about me."

On the way to find the box, Bright said suddenly.

"Write you what?" Sidney asked.

"Write about my father."

"What happened to your father?"

"You know who my father is."

"Yes, he's a judge. So what, doesn't mean I'm going to write a book about him to satisfy your interest."

"It doesn't matter, you will change your tone tomorrow."

"What will happen tomorrow?"

They drove up to the hill and found the box. That night, when they got home, Bright's father suddenly rushed over, grabbed him by the collar and dragged him out of the car, cursing, "What the hell are you doing so late?!".

Brett hurriedly threw the box to Sidney, shouting repeatedly: "Remember you have the key, you can hold the key!"

A week later, on Darcy's birthday, Sidney saw Bright again. Bright had a bruise on the corner of his eye, as if he had been beaten. Sidney felt guilty and uneasy. During the week, he opened the box. In the box was a reel of film, which he looked at out of curiosity. Even the most blunt words are insufficient to describe the psychic impact of the film's content on Sidney.

Sidney and Brett sat down in the dining room.

"Is that thing still with you?"

"Yes, if you want, I can take it to the final exam on Monday."

"did you see it yet?"

"Yes, brother."

"I swear to God, the next time he touches me, I'll kill him! I'm going to take a knife and stab him in the neck!"

"Brother, you can turn in the tape, this thing has to end. That's why we dug it up, right? I'll accompany you on Monday, don't be stupid."

Later, Sidney remembered that he didn't bring the film, and he couldn't remember why.

Bright didn't show up for the final exam Monday morning. Suddenly, a voice came from the radio:

"Good morning, classmates, this is your principal. I have very sad news that one of our Obrefield High School students, Brett Newport, passed away last night. The cause of his death is now unknown, but He was a great student and a great athlete. On behalf of myself and the staff, I would like to offer my condolences to his friends and family, and I would like to ask everyone to stand and observe a moment of silence."

Later, Sidney wrote "Tragic Suburbs" based on Bright, which was very popular.

Melody

Sidney never denied that Melody was the most important person in his life. The girl who lives across the street from him has all his love. After Brett died, Melody became his whole life. Melody met with Brett the afternoon he died. Melody couldn't understand why a good person just disappeared.

"Wish I could be there, and five minutes before he does, I'll shake him and say to him, there's still life ahead of you, and the good will outweigh the bad."

Sidney seemed to be thinking something, saying, "For some people, it's not true...I have to get out of here."

"I'll go with you," Melody said.

"Really? Where are we going?"

"We can go all the way west."

She took a picture out of her bag and said it was a house in the southern hemisphere or the west.

"We'll go there someday, when we're old. Even if we're not together, we can spend a night there, our night. Haven't you always wanted to write a novel? Maybe you could write this."

The Tragic Suburbs was a success, and Sidney became the best writer of the century. He and Melody got married as they wished, and everything seemed perfect.

However, from the day he finished writing the novel, Sidney began to have hallucinations. He started seeing Brett and his mother in various places, and also suffered from epilepsy-like illnesses and was often insane. Doctors suspected he had suffered a severe blow or blow to the head, and Sidney said nothing but refused to take medicine.

This went on for several years, and Melody couldn't take it any longer with her husband's endless despair and depression. The night before Melody left, Sidney had just been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, attended a celebration dinner and spent the night with the publisher's daughter. Sidney and Melody were in a relationship with this beautiful woman during the days when Sidney and Melody were planning to divorce.

Sidney may not have imagined that his marriage to Melody would end up in another tragedy. He actually found the house in the west and bought it. One night, he returned to Melody's house and told her that he wanted to start over with her, that he loved her so much, and that he had not betrayed her in his marriage. Melody pulled out the cardboard Sidney had confessed to her in middle school, and it read:

I have crossed the street.

"If we're going to fix this, we have to get back to where it started," she said.

Until the moment the publisher's daughter appeared in front of him and Melody, Sidney dreamed they could go back to square one. Now, everything is just a nightmare. Melody died in the elevator due to asthma, and he became a witness to the death of the marriage.

Francis Bishop

Everyone is guessing, where exactly is Sidney Hall? It was revealed that he had burned his own books in a library in a city in New York more than once. Some say they saw him get on the train to the west, but don't know where he got off. Others said that they looked very down when they saw him sitting on the street with a dog on a leash.

Until one day, a police officer bailed a unkempt man from the police station. The man was arrested for sleeping on illegal territory, and the officer took the man and his dog to a restaurant and treated them to a meal. The man seemed to have not eaten seriously for a long time, and devoured it.

Sidney Hall didn't expect his wandering career to end like this. Sidney was once again shocked when the officer suggested he was actually Francis Bishop and wanted to write his autobiography. He remembered that Francis Bishaw was a Pulitzer Prize finalist the same year as himself. They were both finalists that year, and Bishaw ended up winning the Pulitzer Prize for his suicide.

"Are you Francis Bishop? And the badge you showed me?"

"Just bought it at the dollar store."

"show me."

"It's really fake! I thought I was crazy, you are more crazy than me!"

Bishop sends Sidney to the house he bought for Melody. Sidney refused his request, and Bishaw didn't expect him to agree to it. Before leaving, Bishop said to Sidney:

""I left in a few days, I don't think you will contact me after I leave, I hope you will consider it. "

Everything seems to have settled.

On the day of leaving, Bishaw called his family and started packing. Suddenly, he got a call, from the hospital, that a seriously ill patient named Sidney Hall wanted to see him. Bishop hurried to the hospital, and the doctor told him that all the organs and functions of Sidney Hall's body were on the verge of failure, only the brain was still active.

Bishop pushed open the door and saw Sidney lying on the hospital bed.

"Mr. Hall, I received your call."

Sidney propped himself up.

"Call me Sidney. I have some things I wrote in my bag, and they're all yours, if you will."

Bishop sat down beside him and took out his pen.

"I called you here today for three reasons. First, I want you to write that book. Second, there are some things I never recorded, but I need to say. Third, you're the only one I know. people."

"Where are you going to start?"

"Let's start with the prototype of Tragic Suburbs, his name is Brett Newport, and that's how I killed him."

Sidney recalled the box and the tape:

"It was recorded on the tape that Bright's father, Judge George Newport, had sex with an underage girl. When he was done, he called a car and took her back to school, what appeared to be a junior high school student. Just a few minutes after the judge left, it all became clear. Smart kid, he should have known, under that football helmet, was a fallen soul, a soul that should have gone all the way to greatness, had he not been so Raising. I can't imagine such a kind of upbringing at all."

Sidney thought again, the night of Darcy's birthday. After he talked to Brett, he was engrossed in the sweetness of his love for Melody. He came home with Melody and found his mother sitting on the sofa with Brett's straps in her hands.

"Mom, this is Melody. Are you reading my diary?"

"When I read this, I thought I should look at your diary, I'd better know a little more about my son's heart. And that black teacher, and how you wrote about the mother, the slut, and that cheerleader Team members, how can you get pissed off by others!"

The mother growled.

"You don't understand, give it back to me."

"I don't understand?! Fuck you!"

The mother angrily threw the videotape into the fire.

"No!"

"I want you to know that the next time you write about your mother, you will have more respect!"

"Stop! Stop!"

When Sidney got another call from Bright, he had to lie and the tape was gone.

He later learned that Bright had stabbed himself in the stomach with a bayonet.

"Some say he did it to avoid going to military school. But I know the truth and I killed him."

He thought again that the afternoon Brett died, Melody had told him that she had always thought the Darcys had a secret and didn't know what it was. Bright once told him that he often heard Darcy crying alone in the room.

"When Melody died, I looked at the city and realized that I was just an inconspicuous light among the thousands of lights in the city, a tiny pixel buried in the white noise of life, and in a flash It's only a short second. I don't want to be a martyr, I don't want to be anyone, I walked out of that apartment with only the clothes on my back to be a nameless person. I never went back. I kept repeating that scene, with a glimmer of hope that the ending would change. Hope she, wake up and say, Sidney, I'm not leaving you now, I'm still pregnant."

Sidney closed his eyes.

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