In what was hailed as Bei Cun's best pre-1992 novel, "Guozao zhe shuo" () ("Uproar" or "The Noisy"), published in 1991, a deaf-mute principal of a school regains the ability to speak when the words "God said, let there be light and there was light" are written by a noisy, pompous professor, who also writes, "I said, let there be God and there was God."