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Fanning looked down at the palm-sized folded letterhead inside the envelope.

It is only a small sheet when unfolded, and the handwriting is written in light purple aniline ink.

The content of the teacher's last letter should not be much.

The first thing he looked at was the date of payment at the bottom.

January 912, 11 in the new calendar.

Yesterday was the 22nd, today is the 23rd, written two weeks ago.

To Dear Student Carolne Van Ning:
I have been wanting to write this letter for a while, and today I finally made up my mind.

Because my condition is really bad, frankly speaking, I will die at any time, but I don't know the exact time, so I have to explain a few small things first.

The symphony we are writing, you gave me a lot of advice and inspiration, thank you very much, it definitely has a subversive factor.After I die, you can continue to write it yourself. If you can complete it, you can participate in the work selection competition as your "First Symphony", and then premiere it at the graduation concert. You don't need to be ranked tenth, and you don't need to declare that it is related to me.

If you can make your premiere successful, you may get a glimpse of some revelations that I haven't had before.

Compared with those nobles, you are too late to learn the piano. In my opinion, although you are talented, your basic skills are really worrying.Please visit Sir Viadrin at No. 43 Keston Street, East District. I have already contacted him, but he will be away for a while recently, and it will be safer to go in December.

Please pay attention to this point!Otherwise, whether you want to be a composer, conductor, pianist, or just want to be a music scholar in school, this will become an obstacle to your artistic career.

My manuscript and all related materials are in my notebook, and I will ask Hiran Konar to forward them to you.

May your life be accompanied by music and sunshine.

Your Sincere Teacher: Anton Konar
"May your life be accompanied by music and sunshine." Fan Ning felt his nose a little sore when he saw this.

This was the first time he felt that his memory and the memory of the original owner were indistinguishable from each other.

He read it a few more times.

In fact, he was encouraged to finish writing the "First Symphony" before graduation, and said that he might get some inspiration after the premiere, and then introduced a piano teacher to him by the way.

"I will do as you say, teacher." Fanning read the letter repeatedly, thinking silently.

This seems to be connected with the work selection contest for the school graduation concert and the content of time travel text messages?
It seems that I have to go to the group meeting in the afternoon.

Fanning stuffed the letterhead back into the envelope, put it in his pocket, and turned to open the thick and large notebook.

On the first page of light gray engraved writing paper, there are a few large characters written as a simple cover:
"Symphony No. __ in D major", with a space in between.

More than two-thirds of the following pages are the score manuscripts. Fan Ning didn't read it now, so he just skipped it.

later on is
journal?Teacher Anton's diary?
The dates come and go, but are all in recent months:
August 8.Bought an interesting antiquity today at Prudence Auctions. The chord sequences recorded on these scrolls are partly stunningly beautiful and partly mysterious.Hey, no one raised the price at all, I got it for only 11 pounds, those stupid aristocrats and capitalists, the only works of art in their eyes are sculptures and famous paintings.Spencer Cecil, where did he get the recommendation?
August 8.Good things come in pairs. The old library of the school occasionally has surprises. Today I found a book called "Sound Flow, Texture and Dreamland". In this year, there are still people who are so proficient in Noah. It took me a whole day to translate more than one page, but I didn't want to stop at all.

August 8.I'm so tired, I don't want to teach them tomorrow.

August 8.How the hell is it still so hot?I think my translation work should be done in the swimming pool.The great sun god, the unfallen fire, can you rest for a while?

August 8.Today's rehearsal froze me to death, the weather in Uvransel is really mentally handicapped!I'm going back to take a good hot shower.

September 9st.My "Ninth Symphony in D Minor" had its premiere, and I conducted it myself. Its popularity is lower than that of the previous one. My composition level may really be getting worse and worse.Alas, I don't care about the sarcasm of those music critics, but the departure of many audience members makes me want to cry. I feel sorry for the musicians who have worked so hard to rehearse.Why did Carlone Van Ning, who was sitting in the first row, cry afterward?Is it because you feel sad for me when you see my popularity slump?
September 9.If only I had an airship.

September 9.Breakthroughs have been made in both translation work and sound sequence research. The book "Sound Flow, Texture and Dreamland" records many methods of exploring musical inspiration in dreams, and I have full confidence in the next symphony I am creating.

September 9.So, after mastering the dream control method, one becomes a wise person?

September 9.Professor Zimmerman from the Academy of Music of the Holy Janus Kingdom wrote that he had learned about the premiere of my Symphony No. 19 in D minor and had also purchased my published sheet music.In the letter, he put forward a lot of professional opinions. Although he finally expressed a positive conclusion, I am really ashamed.They were so pertinent and so obvious, I should have found out for myself!If it can be modified in advance, even partly, will the result of the premiere be different?I'm going to write a nice letter back to thank him.

September 9.Zimmerman you idiot!His musical ideas are as rotten as those old dung floating on the surface of the Purshol!I don't think my Ninth Symphony in D minor needs to be revised, although you can't understand it, but my time will come.

September 9.It's Hiran Conor's birthday, we had a party at home with five or six students, Carolne Van Ning this kid played the piano well today, but when he was praised, he mistook the notes, the basic skills are really worrying .

September 9.I had that dream about doors again, all kinds of colors, crimson, pale, black gold, all kinds of scenes, the door of the wooden house, the door of the playground, the door of the pet cage, when I woke up I think someone is whispering behind the bedroom door.

October 10.I'm getting more and more successful in lucid dreaming, and the feeling of knowing I'm dreaming is amazing!My control over my dreams is getting stronger and stronger, and I can even create some characters and plots as I like. This experience is as fascinating as the creator.

October 10.To be honest, I often find those mysterious chords in the sequence fragments a little scary, and they keep appearing in my dreams along with some terrible things.

October 10.I tried to write a short prelude using mystical chord material, and its color and sound effects are so charming.

October 10.Maybe I shouldn't have lucid dreams so frequently, they did bring unprecedented experience and musical inspiration, but recently I have been crushed by nightmares, and my heart feels a heavy load.

October 10.I burned that prelude score, it shouldn't exist at all.

October 10.In recent days, I have been rehearsing the "Eighth Symphony" by the great music master Gilles.

October 10.This horn chief is an idiot, right?

October 10.I have no chance, I'm old.My body has already been thrown into death in batches, sometimes hair loss, sometimes loose teeth, sometimes susceptible to fatigue.I see a portrait of a 30-year-old seven years ago that is nothing like a 35-something now.If I am 40 years old, I will become a wise person.Now?I have already died many times. (*Note 25)

November 11.Didn't I stop experimenting with dreams?Why █████ (unclear)

November 11.Hahahaha, it turns out that this is what it feels like to be a person with knowledge. There are such lights, shadows and colors under the surface of the world!

November 11.The painting on the living room wall seemed to be blinking.

November 11.Rarely sober today.

November 11.How did they come out?
The handwriting is already very messy here.

November 11.I got mad at Sheeran over a little thing, and I really shouldn't.

November ██.The existence of knowing beings must be false. If it is true, then the dream is not necessarily false?The logic should be pretty clear.

The last page of the diary.

██/██: I regret it, shouldn't I ██? ? , and shouldn't spy on ███? ? ?

Don't record your dreams!

Don't even try to test and control dreams!

They will come out by themselves! ! ! !

……

The two separated in a hurry, one rushed to the group meeting, and the other cooperated with the school's funeral preparations.

Fan Ning walked on campus, but the picture in his mind stopped for a long time on the last page of his diary.

Now he only thinks that this matter is really mysterious and thrilling, and even a little absurd.

The currently known source of the matter lies in the audio series fragments and the mysterious book "Sound Flow, Texture and Dreamland" obtained by Professor Anton Konar.

Following a method discovered by the research, the professor experienced miraculous lucid dreams and began to explore the connection between this and becoming a "knowing being".

"Could it be that I just reproduced the music from my previous life, which gave me the feeling of strengthening my spirit, and the mysterious progress of the subtitles, may ultimately point to this extraordinary road?"

In front of the winding cobblestone road, there is an open corridor outside the auditorium, and the joint doors of the hall with golden leaf patterns are half open and half closed.

"I didn't expect the registration team to be so long."

Fanning looked up the stage.

Today is the initial registration for the work selection contest. There are two teams lined up in front of the long table. Everyone has come forward to take the envelopes and test questions, and the staff will register.

But at the moment, the queuing situation is too obvious. There is a long queue in one line, and only a dozen people in the other line.

This is because there are two types of entries, corresponding to different colored envelopes——

White envelope: represents a small solo or small chamber music work. The content of the initial test is "time-limited composition". Those who sign up can go back after the meeting and submit their works on time at the same time tomorrow.

Black envelope: It represents a large-scale work that requires the participation of a symphony orchestra. The content of the initial test is "improvisation", and it will be reviewed by the professors and judges in front of everyone.

At the graduation concert of St. Lenia University every year, everyone is particularly eager to have their works accepted or to win the opportunity to perform on stage.

This is related to the success rate of staying in school after graduation, and it will also greatly increase the future artistic career.

In an imperial public school, you can have a decent career and income security for life, or become a respected member of the family, or complete the consolidation and transition of the class, or take the first step to become a well-known artist.
However, the threshold for the creation of large-scale symphonic works is extremely high, and the difficulty of small-scale works is not at the same level. Except for a few top students from the composition and conducting departments of the junior and senior majors, everyone is willing to pursue but unable to participate.

Not to mention anything else, the impromptu performance in the first test was already very persuasive.

A piece of music material was requested to be expanded on the spot, and most people couldn't even hold back eight bars, and they were "publicly executed" when they were on stage.

This caused a serious disparity in the number of people queuing on both sides.

Fan Ning walked towards the line with few people, and looked at the stack of black envelopes six or seven meters away from him.

"Caroen, you... are you standing in the wrong place?" A few music majors leaned out from the long line opposite in doubt.

There are more and more people around Fan Ning queuing up, and there are many discussions.

"Am I reading that right? Carlone Van Ning, is he from the Department of Composition or Conducting?"

"Music major."

"Is there any mistake? Why do music majors join in the fun? It's almost enough to write a short piece."

"Wait for a while and the impromptu performance won't get off the stage."

"Haha, does he think he is the chosen one? There is only one place for large-scale symphonic works to be staged each year, and a concert only takes that long."

"Maybe I learned some advanced composition techniques from Professor Anton Konar?"

"Professor Cornell? His works when he was young are not bad. Have you read the later works?"

"I heard that Professor Conor committed suicide last night."

The team leader Cecil, who just refused his request for leave, also turned around from the front of the team.

"Curator Fanning, what masterpiece are you going to write?"

He watched with interest, an imperceptible scorn in his eyes.
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*Note 1: Adapted from Montaigne's "Thoughts"