story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3
Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes, keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy, wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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"""Hand-built reference grouping of the Lorimer predicaments (Claude-written, no inference of any kind).
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Lorimer's *Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son* is an advice book, not a story collection: each of
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its twenty letters is a "story", and the scenes are stretches of a father's advice and the anecdotes he
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tells to carry it. Each scene is in at most one group; scenes that fit no recurring situation stay
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unassigned. Every group spans at least three of the 20 letters, and no letter supplies more than half a
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group's members.
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Options follow DESIGN.md: 3-5 per group, each marked by where it came from --
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'archetype' a fixed, setting-free option
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'scene:N' what someone in scene N actually did (or refused to do)
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'advice:N' a move the book itself advises for or against in scene N (see batches/, `advice`)
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'filled' written to fill a gap the scenes leave
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`moves` names spine paths and a direction only (+ / - / risk / set). No magnitudes: the model never
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chooses a number. Skill labels proposed for this corpus: judgment (sizing up goods, prices, people and
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claims: the father's "one-part talk and nine-parts judgment") and hustle (drive, application, doing the
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second half of the work).
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"""
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G = [
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# ---- money habits ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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dict(id='G01', name='Spending ahead of what you earn',
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predicament='You are spending more than you earn, often to keep up with free-spending company, and the bills are coming due.',
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actor='young earner', wants='to live well now', counterpart='their own pay packet, and the company they keep',
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members=[8, 10, 11, 25, 63, 64],
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options=[
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('Bring your spending down to what you actually earn.', 'advice:8', {'money':'+', 'relationships.peers':'-'}),
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('Keep saving, and keep expenses down.', 'advice:10', {'money':'+', 'flags.buying_in':'set'}),
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('Spend freely, so nobody thinks you mean.', 'advice:11', {'relationships.peers':'+', 'money':'-', 'standing':'-'}),
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('Ask for an advance on your pay.', 'scene:13', {'money':'+', 'relationships.boss':'-'}),
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('Spend it as fast as it comes.', 'advice:10', {'money':'-', 'relationships.peers':'+'})]),
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dict(id='G02', name='Starting at the bottom',
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predicament='You are starting at the bottom on low pay and dull work, and must decide whether it is a first step or a resting place.',
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actor='new hand', wants='to rise', counterpart='the boss who put them there',
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members=[9, 19, 20, 26, 33, 34, 35],
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options=[
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('Take the first job offered and use it as bait for a better one.', 'advice:26', {'money':'+', 'standing':'+'}),
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('Find a way to do the work cheaper, even if it abolishes your job.', 'advice:20', {'judgment':'+', 'money':'+', 'relationships.boss':'+'}),
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('Learn how little you can do and still keep the job.', 'scene:33', {'relationships.boss':'-', 'standing':'-'}),
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('Hold your own job firmly and reach for the next one.', 'advice:33', {'hustle':'+', 'relationships.boss':'+'}),
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('Come early, stay late and keep at it.', 'advice:35', {'hustle':'+', 'standing':'+'})]),
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dict(id='G03', name='Doing just enough',
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predicament='You could keep your place with half your effort, and must decide whether the other half is worth giving.',
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actor='settled employee', wants='to keep the job without killing themselves', counterpart='the boss deciding who rises',
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members=[40, 41, 44, 80, 81, 87, 119],
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options=[
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('Do just enough to keep from being dismissed.', 'advice:80', {'relationships.boss':'-', 'standing':'-'}),
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('Put in the second half of the effort.', 'advice:80', {'hustle':'+', 'relationships.boss':'+'}),
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('Learn more of the business than your job needs.', 'advice:81', {'judgment':'+', 'flags.promoted':'set'}),
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('Come in late, leave early, and do your own business in between.', 'advice:44', {'money':'+', 'flags.passed_over':'set'}),
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('Take on every extra job going, and cheerfully.', 'advice:87', {'hustle':'+', 'flags.promoted':'set'})]),
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# ---- those above you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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dict(id='G04', name='A hard boss',
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predicament='Your superior is gruff, demanding and unimpressed with you, and you are tempted to complain, sulk or go over their head.',
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actor='subordinate', wants='fair treatment and a chance', counterpart='a gruff superior',
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members=[38, 45, 46, 88, 89],
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options=[
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('Say you cannot work under them.', 'advice:45', {'relationships.boss':'-', 'standing':'-'}),
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('Give way to them, and approach them with respect.', 'advice:46', {'relationships.boss':'+'}),
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('Go over their head and report what is wrong with them.', 'advice:46', {'relationships.boss':'-', 'relationships.owner':'risk'}),
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('Take the criticism in wounded silence.', 'advice:88', {'relationships.boss':'-'}),
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('Complain that you are being held down.', 'advice:89', {'relationships.boss':'-', 'standing':'-'})]),
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dict(id='G05', name='Talking yourself up',
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predicament='You are doing well, or want to seem to, and are tempted to make sure everyone knows it.',
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actor='rising employee', wants='to be noticed', counterpart='superiors and colleagues',
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members=[50, 90, 91, 138, 139, 140],
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options=[
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('Tell your superiors how well you are doing.', 'advice:138', {'relationships.boss':'-'}),
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('Say nothing, and let the results speak.', 'advice:140', {'standing':'+', 'hustle':'+'}),
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('Put on airs around the office.', 'advice:50', {'standing':'-', 'relationships.peers':'-'}),
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('Rise on talk and show while it works.', 'advice:139', {'standing':'risk'}),
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('Give more than you are paid for.', 'advice:138', {'hustle':'+', 'standing':'+'})]),
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dict(id='G06', name='Saying too much',
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predicament='You are tempted to say more than you need to: a joke, a retort, an opinion, or a complaint about someone.',
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actor='talker', wants='to be heard', counterpart='whoever is listening',
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members=[32, 47, 49, 71, 72],
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options=[
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('Say what you came to say, and stop.', 'advice:32', {'judgment':'+', 'money':'+'}),
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('Listen more than you talk.', 'advice:33', {'judgment':'+', 'relationships.counterpart':'+'}),
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('Crack the joke.', 'advice:72', {'standing':'-', 'relationships.counterpart':'+'}),
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('Run down the people you used to work for.', 'advice:49', {'relationships.boss':'-', 'flags.not_hired':'set'}),
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('Answer back with a smart retort.', 'advice:71', {'relationships.counterpart':'-', 'money':'-'})]),
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# ---- customers and the trade ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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dict(id='G07', name='A customer tries you',
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predicament='A customer complains, needles you or sets a trap, and how you answer decides whether you keep their trade.',
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actor='seller', wants='to keep the trade', counterpart='a difficult customer',
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members=[74, 75, 82, 93],
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options=[
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('Settle a fair complaint on the spot, bargaining down from the first figure.', 'advice:75', {'money':'-', 'relationships.customer':'+'}),
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('Know your goods well enough to turn their trap round.', 'advice:82', {'judgment':'+', 'money':'+', 'standing':'+'}),
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('Say something about them that they will take as praise.', 'advice:93', {'judgment':'+', 'relationships.customer':'+', 'money':'+'}),
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('Flatter them.', 'advice:74', {'relationships.customer':'+', 'standing':'-'}),
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('Tell them to their face that they are a liar.', 'advice:93', {'relationships.customer':'-', 'flags.fought':'set'})]),
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dict(id='G08', name='Goods nobody wants',
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predicament='You have goods to sell and buyers who feel no need of them.',
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actor='seller', wants='to move the goods', counterpart='buyers who are not hungry',
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members=[51, 52, 77, 95, 98, 99],
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options=[
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('Give them a grander label and a higher price.', 'advice:52', {'money':'+', 'judgment':'+'}),
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('Tell the buyers plainly that they need it.', 'scene:77', {'relationships.customer':'-'}),
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('Stage a show that makes the need feel real.', 'advice:98', {'money':'+', 'flags.sharp_practice':'set'}),
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('Dress the same goods up as something new.', 'advice:51', {'money':'-'}),
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('Take them where the money already is.', 'advice:78', {'money':'+', 'hustle':'+'})]),
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dict(id='G09', name='Easy money',
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predicament='Someone offers, or the market seems to offer, money for nothing, and you have a little you could stake.',
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actor='person of small means', wants='to get rich quicker', counterpart='a schemer, a tipster, or the market',
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members=[30, 36, 37, 109, 111, 117],
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options=[
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('Stay clear: take the elevator to the roof garden.', 'advice:36', {'judgment':'+', 'relationships.schemer':'-'}),
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('Take a little flyer on it.', 'scene:108', {'money':'risk', 'relationships.boss':'-', 'flags.speculated':'set'}),
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('Lend them a little rather than join in.', 'advice:37', {'money':'-', 'relationships.schemer':'+'}),
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('Ask why the return is so high before you trust it.', 'advice:111', {'judgment':'+'}),
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('Talk yourself into it, principles and all.', 'scene:117', {'money':'risk', 'standing':'-'})]),
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dict(id='G17', name='Rivals are taking the trade',
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predicament='Rivals are getting the better of you in the trade, and you must decide whether to explain it, shrug it off or go after them.',
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actor='seller or manager', wants='the business', counterpart='rival firms',
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members=[76, 78, 127, 148],
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options=[
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('Send in a full account of what the competition is doing.', 'advice:78', {'relationships.boss':'-', 'flags.resigned':'set'}),
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('Go for all of the trade, not a share of it.', 'advice:128', {'hustle':'+', 'money':'+', 'relationships.rival':'-'}),
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('Take up the line you left to them.', 'advice:127', {'money':'+', 'hustle':'+'}),
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('Stand and fight: you never sold what you could not deliver.', 'advice:148', {'standing':'+', 'relationships.rival':'-'}),
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('Go where the money already is.', 'advice:78', {'money':'+', 'judgment':'+'})]),
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# ---- judging people -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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dict(id='G10', name='Taking someone on',
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predicament='You are about to hire or trust someone on the strength of how they look, how they talk, or who vouches for them.',
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actor='employer', wants='a good hand', counterpart='the candidate and whoever vouches for them',
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members=[48, 53, 56, 59, 105, 106, 107],
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options=[
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('Take them on the word of whoever vouches for them.', 'scene:53', {'relationships.friend':'+', 'money':'risk'}),
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('Try them out in the work before committing.', 'advice:105', {'judgment':'+'}),
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("Get an outsider's valuation, in figures.", 'advice:56', {'judgment':'+', 'relationships.friend':'-'}),
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('Trust the one with the polished manners.', 'advice:107', {'relationships.hire':'+', 'money':'risk'}),
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('Be on your guard against anyone too smooth.', 'advice:48', {'judgment':'+', 'relationships.hire':'-'})]),
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dict(id='G11', name='Looking the part',
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predicament='You want to be taken for more than you yet are, and must decide how much to spend on looking the part.',
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actor='person on the way up', wants='to be taken seriously', counterpart='the people who judge by appearances',
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members=[31, 100, 101, 102, 104, 134, 135, 144],
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options=[
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('Get a sober, well-made suit and look the part.', 'scene:100', {'money':'-', 'standing':'+'}),
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('Look like someone of consequence before you are one.', 'advice:104', {'standing':'+', 'money':'-'}),
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('Build your name on your work, not on borrowed rank.', 'advice:31', {'standing':'+', 'hustle':'+'}),
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('Throw a lavish show to win acceptance.', 'advice:135', {'money':'-', 'standing':'-', 'flags.public_scandal':'set'}),
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('Keep up appearances beyond your means.', 'advice:144', {'money':'-', 'standing':'risk'})]),
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# ---- in charge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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dict(id='G12', name='Someone under you falls short',
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predicament='Someone under you is slack, wrong for the post, or in a bad habit, and it falls to you to act.',
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actor='manager', wants='the work done well', counterpart='a subordinate falling short',
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members=[28, 43, 103, 121, 122],
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options=[
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("Let a wrong hire go at once, with a month's pay.", 'advice:122', {'money':'-', 'relationships.staff':'+'}),
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('Put it off a little longer.', 'advice:28', {'money':'-', 'flags.lost_good_hand':'set'}),
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('Set the example yourself, starting with your own habits.', 'advice:103', {'hustle':'+', 'relationships.staff':'+'}),
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('Tell them bluntly what is wrong with them.', 'advice:121', {'relationships.staff':'-'}),
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('Threaten them.', 'advice:122', {'relationships.staff':'-', 'standing':'risk'})]),
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dict(id='G13', name='Caught between two sides',
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predicament='You stand between two sides who each want your loyalty, and favouring either openly will cost you with the other.',
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actor='go-between', wants='to keep both sides', counterpart='those above and those below, or the firm and the customer',
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members=[92, 94, 128, 129, 149],
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options=[
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('Try openly to please both sides.', 'advice:92', {'relationships.boss':'-', 'relationships.other_side':'-'}),
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('Keep them apart, and let each think they have slightly the better of it.', 'advice:92', {'judgment':'+', 'relationships.boss':'+', 'relationships.other_side':'+'}),
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('Please your own side and let the other grumble.', 'advice:149', {'relationships.boss':'+', 'relationships.other_side':'-'}),
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('Cut a corner on one side to keep the other sweet.', 'advice:94', {'relationships.boss':'+', 'relationships.other_side':'-', 'flags.skinned_someone':'set'}),
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('Explain yourself to both.', 'advice:128', {'relationships.other_side':'+', 'standing':'-'})]),
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# ---- private life ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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dict(id='G14', name='Sizing up a match',
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predicament='You are drifting toward marrying someone and have not yet taken a clear look at them, their family, or what it will cost.',
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actor='suitor', wants='to marry well', counterpart='the person they are courting, and that person\'s family',
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members=[65, 70, 158, 159, 172, 173],
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options=[
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('Size them up before you are engaged, at breakfast as well as at the theatre.', 'advice:172', {'judgment':'+', 'relationships.partner':'risk'}),
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('Marry someone raised above the means you can give them.', 'advice:65', {'relationships.partner':'+', 'money':'-'}),
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('Tell them exactly what you earn.', 'advice:63', {'relationships.partner':'risk', 'judgment':'+'}),
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('Marry a sensible partner, even on modest pay.', 'advice:158', {'relationships.partner':'+', 'money':'-'}),
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('Propose first and find out later.', 'advice:172', {'relationships.partner':'+', 'flags.married_in_haste':'set'})]),
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dict(id='G15', name='The wrong line of work',
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predicament='You are in, or headed for, work that does not suit you, and must decide whether to push on, switch, or wait for something better.',
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actor='misfit', wants='work that suits them', counterpart='a parent or an employer with other plans',
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members=[5, 6, 7, 18, 57, 58, 62, 141],
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options=[
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('Try the work you are set on, whatever your family says.', 'advice:57', {'relationships.family':'-', 'money':'risk'}),
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('Leave the family trade for one that suits your gifts.', 'advice:62', {'money':'+', 'relationships.family':'-'}),
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('Hold out for work worthy of your old position.', 'advice:141', {'money':'-', 'standing':'-'}),
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('Take whatever work is going, however heavy.', 'scene:19', {'money':'+', 'hustle':'+', 'standing':'-'}),
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('Tell your new superior how it ought to be done.', 'advice:6', {'relationships.boss':'-', 'flags.dismissed':'set'})]),
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dict(id='G16', name='The fast set',
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predicament='The people around you are spending their time and money on amusement, and you must decide how far to go along.',
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actor='young person', wants='to belong', counterpart='free-spending companions',
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members=[3, 14, 15, 130, 131, 137],
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options=[
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('Do as everyone else does.', 'advice:14', {'relationships.peers':'+', 'money':'-', 'standing':'-'}),
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('Keep away, even if it leaves you on your own.', 'advice:15', {'relationships.peers':'-', 'judgment':'+'}),
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('Go slow, and pick your amusements.', 'advice:3', {'judgment':'+'}),
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('Take working afternoons off to play.', 'advice:130', {'relationships.peers':'+', 'relationships.boss':'-'}),
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('Cultivate the fashionable set.', 'advice:131', {'relationships.peers':'+', 'money':'-', 'standing':'risk'})]),
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dict(id='G18', name='Your mistake has come to light',
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predicament='A mistake of yours has come to light, and you can own up, joke it off, cover it, or let it pass.',
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actor='person at fault', wants='to come out of it well', counterpart='the one who found out',
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members=[29, 39, 108, 146, 147],
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options=[
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('Own up at once.', 'advice:93', {'standing':'-', 'relationships.boss':'+'}),
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('Make a joke of it.', 'scene:39', {'relationships.boss':'-'}),
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('Keep quiet and hope it passes.', 'advice:93', {'relationships.boss':'risk', 'flags.covered_up':'set'}),
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('Take the public humbling.', 'advice:147', {'standing':'-', 'judgment':'+'}),
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('Make sure it never happens twice.', 'advice:29', {'judgment':'+'})]),
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]
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# The son's standing by letter, for stage assignment (DESIGN.md "Stages"). Per letter, not per scene. The
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# son is the protagonist even where a scene is an anecdote about someone else, so this stages the letter,
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# not the anecdote. Letters 1-5 (0-4): a student, then a graduate about to start. Letters 6-9 (5-8): the
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# mailing desk, then the billing desk. Letters 10-14 (9-13): a travelling salesman, raised to thirty a week
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# in letter 13. Letters 15-20 (14-19): assistant manager of a department at fifty a week. "high" is only the
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# top of this book's ladder, a junior manager, not the owner's chair.
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STANDING = {0:'low', 1:'low', 2:'low', 3:'low', 4:'low', 5:'low', 6:'low', 7:'low', 8:'low',
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9:'middle', 10:'middle', 11:'middle', 12:'middle', 13:'middle',
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14:'high', 15:'high', 16:'high', 17:'high', 18:'high', 19:'high'}
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