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Replace clustering with a catalogue, and hand-write the references to judge it against

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The pipeline's embed-and-cluster step is dead, and this commit holds both the
evidence for that and the step proposed to replace it.

Predicaments. Scenes are re-described as "what the person is up against", with
no names, jobs or places, then embedded and clustered (redescribe.py,
topic_words.py, topic_share.py). The pilot chose qwen3:14b over 3b by reading
both side by side. Two defects the pilot exposed are fixed: split.py missed
titles in quotes and a contents subtitle after a dash, so three stories had been
merged into their neighbours, and strip_names.py read New York place names as
people. The corrected corpus is probe/v2 (97 stories, 839 scenes);
carry_summaries.py reuses the 829 unchanged v1 summaries. Topic share fell from
20% to 13% at k=60, short of the pre-registered 10%.

Hand references. Three corpora were read scene by scene and written up by hand,
under the same prompt rules the local models get, as a baseline to judge them
against: O. Henry (probe/v2/claude, 839 scenes, 20 situations), Wharton's
Descent of Man (probe/wharton, 262 scenes, 16 groups) and Jacobs's The Lady of
the Barge (probe/jacobs, 157 scenes, 19 groups). Each has its own README and a
readable page. No inference was used for any of them.

Catalogue. probe/catalogue maps every hand group in the three references onto 36
situation entries, with an answer key per corpus and one recurrence rule applied
to all three. classify.py assigns a scene one entry or none, leave-one-corpus-
out; score.py checks it against the key, with a self-test on random labels.

Why clustering is out: hand-written predicaments, embedded and clustered exactly
as the model's were, agree with the hand grouping at ARI 0.05 — no better than
the 14B text's 0.07. Better rewriting cannot rescue it. Embeddings cannot even
shortlist: the hand label is the nearest entry 13% of the time and in the top 8
half the time.

The classification runs are not here. The dev and test runs are pre-registered
in probe/catalogue/README.md with the bar set beforehand, and are blocked on the
inference host, whose GPU has fallen off the PCIe bus three times. The 30-scene
partial output in out/ is not a result.

Review page. The situation review is now a browser page rather than JSON edited
by hand (review_page.py, review_page_logic.cjs with Node tests, format schema
v2). It has never been rendered in a real browser.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014BygvsUXV9eU6oHkTCkKZ1
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"""Claude's hand grouping: each scene gets at most one situation code (primary reading).
Written by reading all 839 predicaments/summaries in order; no embeddings, no clustering."""
A = 'pose'; B = 'station'; C = 'sacrifice'; D = 'benefactor'; E = 'easy_money'; F = 'taken_for_granted'
G = 'appearances'; H = 'strings'; I = 'price'; J = 'rival'; K = 'newcomer'; L = 'homecoming'
M = 'sign'; N = 'loyalty'; O = 'despised'; P = 'honest_work'; Q = 'habit'; R = 'unspoken'
U = 'overlooked'; V = 'patron'
ASSIGN = {
# 1 John Hopkins
9: F,
# 2 Lickpenny Lover
16: B, 17: B, 18: B, 19: B, 20: B, 21: B, 22: B,
# 3 Dougherty
24: F, 25: F, 26: F, 27: F, 28: F, 29: F,
# 5 Harbinger
42: F, 43: F,
# 6 While the Auto Waits
45: A, 46: A, 47: A, 48: A, 49: A, 50: A,
# 7 Comedy in Rubber
57: Q,
# 8 One Thousand Dollars
58: H, 62: C, 63: C, 64: H,
# 9 Defeat of the City
65: K, 66: B, 67: B, 68: B, 69: B, 70: B, 71: B, 72: B, 73: B,
# 10 Shocks of Doom
74: H, 80: H, 81: H,
# 11 Plutonian Fire
82: P, 83: K, 85: P, 86: P, 87: P, 88: P, 89: P,
# 13 Squaring the Circle
97: K, 100: K, 101: K, 102: K,
# 14 Roses, Ruses
107: M, 108: M, 109: M,
# 15 City of Dreadful Night
110: D, 111: D, 112: D, 113: D, 116: D,
# 16 Easter of the Soul
121: R, 122: R,
# 17 Fool-Killer
125: H, 126: H, 127: H, 128: H, 129: H, 131: H, 132: H, 133: H,
# 18 Transients in Arcadia
135: A, 136: A, 137: A, 138: A, 139: A, 140: A,
# 19 Rathskeller and the Rose
142: A, 143: A, 144: L, 145: L, 146: L, 147: L,
# 20 Clarion Call
148: N, 149: N, 150: N, 151: N, 152: N, 156: N,
# 21 Extradited from Bohemia
157: K, 158: K, 160: K, 161: K, 164: L,
# 22 Philistine in Bohemia
166: B, 167: B, 168: B, 169: B, 170: B, 171: B,
# 23 From Each According
176: O, 177: V, 178: O,
# 24 Memento
182: I, 184: I, 185: I, 186: A, 187: A, 188: A, 189: A, 190: A,
# 25 Strictly Business
196: R, 197: R, 202: R, 205: R, 206: R,
# 26 Gold that Glittered
210: E, 211: E, 212: E, 213: E, 214: E, 215: E, 216: E,
# 27 Babes in the Jungle
219: E, 220: E, 221: E, 222: E, 223: E, 224: E, 225: E,
# 28 Day Resurgent
227: F, 228: F, 232: F, 233: F,
# 29 Fifth Wheel
234: D, 242: E, 243: E, 244: G, 245: L, 246: O, 247: L,
# 30 Poet and Peasant
249: P, 250: G, 251: G, 252: G, 253: G, 254: G, 255: E, 256: P,
# 32 Girl and the Graft
266: E, 267: E, 268: E, 269: E, 270: E,
# 33 Call of the Tame
271: K, 272: L, 273: K, 274: K, 275: K, 276: K, 277: K,
# 34a Unknown Quantity
280: D, 281: D, 283: D, 284: B,
# 34b The Thing's the Play (merged into story 34 by the splitter)
287: G, 288: G, 292: J, 293: J,
# 35 Ramble in Aphasia
301: A, 305: A, 307: A,
# 36 Municipal Report
318: C, 319: I, 324: C, 326: I, 327: C, 329: N,
# 37 Psyche and the Pskyscraper
331: J, 332: J, 333: J, 334: J, 335: J, 336: J, 337: J,
# 38 Bird of Bagdad
339: D, 340: D, 341: D, 342: D, 345: D, 346: D,
# 39 Compliments of the Season
350: O, 351: E, 352: O, 353: E, 354: O, 356: O, 357: O, 358: O,
# 40 Night in New Arabia
359: D, 361: D, 362: D, 363: D, 364: D, 365: D, 366: B, 367: B, 368: B, 369: B, 370: B,
371: D, 372: D, 373: B, 374: B,
# 41 Girl and the Habit
381: B, 382: B, 383: Q,
# 42 Proof of the Pudding
386: P, 387: P, 388: P, 389: P, 390: P, 391: P,
# 43 Past One at Rooney's
402: A, 403: A, 404: A, 406: A, 410: A, 411: A, 412: A,
# 45 The Duel
429: K, 430: K, 431: K, 432: K, 433: K, 434: K, 435: K,
# 46 What You Want
436: D, 437: D, 440: D, 441: D,
# 47 Tobin's Palm
444: M, 445: M, 446: M, 447: M, 449: M, 453: M,
# 48 Gift of the Magi
454: C, 455: C, 456: C, 457: C, 458: C, 460: C, 461: C,
# 49 Cosmopolite in a Cafe
466: K, 467: K, 468: K, 469: K,
# 50 Between Rounds
470: F, 471: F, 475: F, 476: F, 477: F,
# 51 Skylight Room
479: I, 483: I,
# 52 Service of Love
488: C, 489: C, 490: C, 491: C, 492: C,
# 53 Coming-out of Maggie
493: U, 494: A, 495: A, 496: J, 497: J, 498: J, 501: A,
# 55 Cop and the Anthem
509: D,
# 56 Adjustment of Nature
519: J, 520: J, 521: J, 522: J, 523: J,
# 57 Yellow Dog
525: F, 526: F, 527: F, 528: F, 529: F, 530: F,
# 58 Love-Philtre
532: J, 533: J, 534: J, 535: J, 536: J,
# 59 Mammon and the Archer
540: R, 542: R, 543: R, 544: D,
# 60 Springtime a la Carte
546: I,
# 61 Green Door
556: M, 557: M, 558: M, 559: I, 560: I, 562: M,
# 63 Unfinished Story
570: I, 571: I, 572: I, 573: I, 574: I, 575: I, 576: I,
# 64 Caliph, Cupid and the Clock
578: D, 579: D, 580: D, 582: M, 583: O, 584: M,
# 65 Sisters of the Golden Circle
590: G, 591: G,
# 66 Busy Broker
593: F, 597: F,
# 67 After Twenty Years
598: N, 599: N, 600: N, 601: N, 602: N,
# 68 Lost on Dress Parade
603: A, 604: A, 605: A, 606: A, 607: A, 608: A, 609: A, 610: A,
# 69 By Courier
612: G, 614: G, 615: G, 616: G,
# 71 Tildy
627: U, 628: U, 629: U, 630: U, 631: U, 632: U,
# 72 Trimmed Lamp
635: B, 637: A, 640: B, 641: B, 643: B, 646: B, 647: B,
# 73 Madison Square Arabian Night
648: G, 649: D, 650: D, 651: D, 652: D, 653: P, 654: G, 655: G, 656: G,
# 74 Rubaiyat
657: Q, 658: Q, 661: F, 662: F, 663: F, 664: F,
# 75 Pendulum
665: F, 666: F, 667: F, 668: F, 669: F, 670: F, 671: F,
# 76 Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
675: D, 676: D, 677: C, 678: C, 679: C,
# 77 Assessor of Success
681: E, 682: E, 683: E, 684: E, 685: E, 686: E,
# 78 Buyer from Cactus City
689: V, 691: I, 692: B, 693: B, 694: I, 695: B,
# 79 Badge of O'Roon
698: N, 699: N, 701: N, 702: N,
# 80 Brickdust Row
704: D, 705: B, 706: B, 707: B, 708: B, 710: I, 711: I, 712: D,
# 81 Making of a New Yorker
715: K, 716: K, 717: K, 718: K, 719: K,
# 82 Vanity and Some Sables
722: A, 723: A, 725: G, 726: A, 727: A,
# 83 Social Triangle
729: V, 730: V, 731: V, 732: V, 733: D, 734: D,
# 84 Purple Dress
735: U, 737: U, 738: C, 740: O,
# 85 Company 99
745: O, 746: O, 747: O, 748: O, 749: O,
# 86 Lost Blend
750: R, 751: R, 756: R,
# 87 Harlem Tragedy
757: F, 759: F, 761: F, 762: F, 763: F, 764: F,
# 88 Guilty Party
765: F, 766: F, 767: F, 772: F,
# 89 According to Their Lights
776: N, 777: N, 778: N, 779: H, 780: H,
# 90 Midsummer Knight's Dream
782: C, 784: J, 785: J, 787: C,
# 91 Last Leaf
790: M, 793: C, 794: M, 796: C,
# 92 Count and the Wedding Guest
798: A, 799: A, 800: A, 801: A, 802: V, 803: V, 804: A,
# 93 Country of Elusion
810: A, 811: A,
# 94 Ferry of Unfulfilment
818: B, 819: B, 820: B,
# 95 Tainted Tenner
825: O, 826: O, 827: O, 828: O,
# 96 Elsie in New York
831: D, 832: D, 833: D, 834: D, 835: D, 836: I, 837: I, 838: D,
}
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{"chunk":0,"story":0,"summary":"A writer on assignment casts about for someone who can tell him what the city means, and starts with the woman he courts.","predicament":"A man needs an answer only other people can give him, and does not know whom to ask first."},
{"chunk":1,"story":0,"summary":"A man presses the woman he courts for an answer she turns aside with jokes; he insists, and she only smiles.","predicament":"Someone presses another for an answer they keep deflecting, and must decide whether to keep pushing."},
{"chunk":2,"story":0,"summary":"A man questions a bartender about the city's meaning; the bartender is pulled away by a neighbour's errand and talks about his family instead.","predicament":"Someone seeks an answer from a busy person whose own small duties keep crowding out the question."},
{"chunk":3,"story":0,"summary":"A man asks a policeman what the city says; the policeman says he only takes orders, then talks about his new wife.","predicament":"Someone asks an official a large question and gets only the official's private life in reply."},
{"chunk":4,"story":0,"summary":"A man asks a poet for a grand utterance summing up the whole city, laying out at length what the answer should contain.","predicament":"Someone asks an expert for a sweeping answer, and specifies it so tightly that no answer can fit."},
{"chunk":5,"story":0,"summary":"A poet ignores the question to talk about a girl, and a news-seller wants only his money; the questioner leaves with nothing.","predicament":"Everyone someone asks is absorbed in their own affairs, leaving the question unanswered and the asker alone."},
{"chunk":6,"story":0,"summary":"A man returns to the woman he courts and sits silent beside her; she notes he has not spoken, and that is his answer.","predicament":"Someone comes back to the person who matters, and finds silence says what all the asking could not."},
{"chunk":7,"story":1,"summary":"A low-paid clerk and his wife live an ordinary flat-bound life, with neither poverty, love nor war to mark it.","predicament":"Someone's life is comfortable, small and unmarked, and they want something to happen in it."},
{"chunk":8,"story":1,"summary":"A housewife's days are made of bargains, window-sills and small superiorities over a neighbour, in a city where large things happen suddenly.","predicament":"Someone fills empty days with small rivalries while chance waits to overturn everything without warning."},
{"chunk":9,"story":1,"summary":"A clerk tries to make conversation with his wife about his workplace, fails, and goes out for a cigar instead.","predicament":"Someone tries to make talk with the person nearest them, gets nothing back, and steps outside."},
{"chunk":10,"story":1,"summary":"A customer finds himself penniless and offers to pay tomorrow; the shopkeeper attacks him and the two fight into the street.","predicament":"Someone asks for a moment's trust over a trifle and is answered with violence."},
{"chunk":11,"story":1,"summary":"A fleeing man strikes the officer who intervenes, runs, and is picked up by a stranger's car that carries him to a mansion.","predicament":"Someone in flight from a trivial quarrel is swept into a stranger's plans without being asked."},
{"chunk":12,"story":1,"summary":"A wealthy young woman, mistaking a stranger for a champion, asks him to confront a man who has insulted her.","predicament":"Someone is mistaken for the person another needs, and is asked to fight a stranger's battle."},
{"chunk":13,"story":1,"summary":"A man takes a woman's flower and confronts her enemy on her behalf; the young man puts him out the door effortlessly.","predicament":"Someone accepts a favour, acts as a champion, and is removed without effort by the one they challenged."},
{"chunk":14,"story":1,"summary":"The quarrel proves a lovers' game between a couple; the outsider walks home and resumes the dull talk he left.","predicament":"Someone discovers the drama they were pulled into was never theirs, and returns to an unchanged life."},
{"chunk":15,"story":2,"summary":"A young shop assistant behind a counter is beautiful and shrewd, schooled by the other girls in how to handle men who buy.","predicament":"A young person with looks and little money learns to guard themselves among strangers who want their attention."},
{"chunk":16,"story":2,"summary":"A rich young man wanders into a store where the counter girls flirt with cheap admirers, and the shop assistant meets his eye.","predicament":"Someone of high standing strays into a place where their advantages mean nothing, and hesitates."},
{"chunk":17,"story":2,"summary":"A rich man realises he stands among ordinary suitors, resolves to win the shop assistant anyway, and leaves his card on the counter.","predicament":"Someone wants a person far outside their circle, and has no proper way to approach them."},
{"chunk":18,"story":2,"summary":"A rich man asks permission to call; the shop assistant refuses her crowded home and names a street corner instead.","predicament":"Someone accepts a suitor's approach but cannot let them see how they live."},
{"chunk":19,"story":2,"summary":"A workmate teases the shop assistant about her rich admirer, while he worries that her easy consent means she is common.","predicament":"Someone's suitor takes their ease of manner for cheapness, and neither can read the other's world."},
{"chunk":20,"story":2,"summary":"A rich man proposes marriage; the shop assistant disbelieves his station and takes his declarations for the usual flattery.","predicament":"Someone offers everything they have and is not believed by the person they offer it to."},
{"chunk":21,"story":2,"summary":"A suitor paints a life of foreign travel and palaces; the shop assistant recognises the picture and stands up.","predicament":"Someone describes the future they are offering, and the other hears something entirely different in it."},
{"chunk":22,"story":2,"summary":"The shop assistant ends it and tells a workmate that the rich man only wanted a cheap wedding trip.","predicament":"Someone rejects the best offer they will ever get, having misread it completely."},
{"chunk":23,"story":3,"summary":"A man belongs to a clannish set who live in hotel lobbies and keep their home lives out of sight.","predicament":"Someone's standing among their own set depends on keeping their private life invisible."},
{"chunk":24,"story":3,"summary":"A man treats his wife as a fixture at home, dining out nightly with his set and barely hearing her talk.","predicament":"Someone has stopped noticing the person they live with, and does not know what they are missing."},
{"chunk":25,"story":3,"summary":"A wife asks her husband to take her out after three years indoors; he agrees, and she comes down transformed.","predicament":"Someone finally asks for what they have gone without for years, and is answered."},
{"chunk":26,"story":3,"summary":"A husband, surprised by his wife's appearance, changes his plan and resolves to show her to his friends rather than hide her.","predicament":"Someone realises what they kept hidden is worth showing, and reverses course to display it."},
{"chunk":27,"story":3,"summary":"A man's friends stare as he passes with his wife; at dinner she blooms, and shame reaches him for the years she spent shut in.","predicament":"Someone sees what their neglect cost another, and feels it in front of witnesses."},
{"chunk":28,"story":3,"summary":"An influential friend joins their table and the wife charms him and a crowd of men, while her husband sits without words.","predicament":"Someone watches the person they took for granted admired by everyone but themselves."},
{"chunk":29,"story":3,"summary":"The husband takes his wife's cloak before his friend can, walks her home, and refuses to return to his set.","predicament":"Someone, made jealous of what they neglected, chooses to keep it rather than hand it round."},
{"chunk":30,"story":4,"summary":"Three weeks married, a bride idly asks her husband for out-of-season fruit, and he leaves at once to get it.","predicament":"Someone newly devoted takes a passing whim as a command and sets out to satisfy it."},
{"chunk":31,"story":4,"summary":"A husband tries a street vendor and a friend's establishment; both say the fruit is out of season and offer a substitute.","predicament":"Someone hunting one particular thing is repeatedly offered a substitute they refuse to take."},
{"chunk":32,"story":4,"summary":"Finding every shop shut, a husband goes to a police captain and offers to lead a raid on a gambling house.","predicament":"Someone, blocked at every ordinary door, offers an official information to get inside a closed place."},
{"chunk":33,"story":4,"summary":"A man guides a dozen officers to a gambling room, the door is broken in, and most of the players escape.","predicament":"Someone sets a large action in motion for a reason nobody around them suspects."},
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{"chunk":35,"story":4,"summary":"One piece of fruit survives the supper table; the man pockets it and has a druggist check the rib he hurt falling downstairs.","predicament":"Someone gets the thing they went out for, at a cost nobody will ever weigh."},
{"chunk":36,"story":4,"summary":"The husband lays the fruit in his wife's hand; she says she would rather have had the other kind after all.","predicament":"Someone delivers what was asked and learns the asker has already changed their mind."},
{"chunk":37,"story":5,"summary":"Spring is announced in the city by newspaper items, but the true sign is when one person goes seeking another.","predicament":"Someone waits for a sign of change and finds it only when feeling moves them."},
{"chunk":38,"story":5,"summary":"Three idlers on a bench plot how to get the one dollar a married man's wife earned by washing.","predicament":"Idle companions plan how to take the only money earned by someone who works for it."},
{"chunk":39,"story":5,"summary":"The husband boasts he can choke the money out of his wife, then goes home to a woman who despises him.","predicament":"Someone boasts of a cruelty to companions, then faces alone the person they must get it from."},
{"chunk":40,"story":5,"summary":"The husband claims a new position and asks for the money; his wife calls him a liar and refuses.","predicament":"Someone invents a respectable reason for needing money and is seen through at once."},
{"chunk":41,"story":5,"summary":"The husband tries self-pity; his wife mocks it, and he decides to try the tenderness he abandoned years ago.","predicament":"Someone runs out of excuses and considers using affection they no longer feel."},
{"chunk":42,"story":5,"summary":"The husband puts his arm around his wife and calls her old endearments; she breaks down, holds him, and hurries out.","predicament":"Someone performs an affection they do not mean, and the other believes it entirely."},
{"chunk":43,"story":5,"summary":"The wife returns having spent the dollar on a tonic for her husband, and sits on his lap; his friends still wait.","predicament":"Someone's pretence is repaid with a kindness that costs them exactly what they were after."}
]
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{"chunk":44,"story":6,"summary":"A young man contrives to speak to a well-dressed young woman on a park bench; she invites him to sit and talk.","predicament":"Someone engineers a meeting with a stranger they have watched, and is unexpectedly welcomed."},
{"chunk":45,"story":6,"summary":"A young woman rebukes a stranger's familiar flirtation, then asks him about the passing crowd and hints she is above them.","predicament":"Someone misjudges a stranger's station, is corrected, and must start the acquaintance again."},
{"chunk":46,"story":6,"summary":"A young woman claims a famous name and weariness of wealth; the stranger, curious, catches an inconsistency in her account.","predicament":"Someone builds an impressive story about themselves and a listener notices a detail that does not fit."},
{"chunk":47,"story":6,"summary":"The woman explains away her slip as a fashion, says she could love a lowly worker, and asks the stranger's occupation.","predicament":"Someone repairs their story, then invites the other to declare what they are."},
{"chunk":48,"story":6,"summary":"The man says he is a cashier across the street; the woman hurries away, telling him her car waits at the corner.","predicament":"Each claims a position that suits the other's expectation, and the meeting is broken off."},
{"chunk":49,"story":6,"summary":"Told to wait, the man follows the woman instead, and watches her take her place at the cashier's desk she described.","predicament":"Someone disobeys an instruction and discovers the other's grand account was invented."},
{"chunk":50,"story":6,"summary":"The man drops the woman's book on the grass, steps into the waiting automobile and orders his chauffeur to his club.","predicament":"Someone learns another's pretence and quietly withdraws, their own greater one never discovered."},
{"chunk":51,"story":7,"summary":"A city breeds a tribe of onlookers who gather in a ring around any accident or oddity, however trivial.","predicament":"People crowd to watch other people's misfortunes, making a pastime of them."},
{"chunk":52,"story":7,"summary":"Two devoted onlookers meet across the body of an injured man, and one falls in love as the other shoves through the crowd.","predicament":"Two people recognise each other by a shared appetite that everyone else finds distasteful."},
{"chunk":53,"story":7,"summary":"The two onlookers remain after the crowd goes, staring frankly at each other's physical defects without speaking.","predicament":"Two people court each other by the only manners they know, which others would find rude."},
{"chunk":54,"story":7,"summary":"On a dull day the two fight into a crowd watching a sign-painter, and the man offers to show her a rarer sight.","predicament":"Someone courts another by offering the one thing they both value, however small."},
{"chunk":55,"story":7,"summary":"The pair share an injury, a stakeout and three days on a plank, and pledge themselves as a policeman drives them away.","predicament":"Two people build a shared life entirely out of a habit that others move them along for."},
{"chunk":56,"story":7,"summary":"A wedding is set, the church filled, and outside the crowd of onlookers presses and fights to see the couple arrive.","predicament":"Someone's private occasion becomes the spectacle that a crowd has come to feed on."},
{"chunk":57,"story":7,"summary":"The couple never arrive; they are dragged from the crowd, trampled, having joined it to watch themselves be married.","predicament":"Someone's lifelong habit makes them miss the one occasion that was theirs."},
{"chunk":58,"story":8,"summary":"A lawyer hands a young heir a thousand dollars and tells him he must render a full account of how he spends it.","predicament":"Someone receives an awkward sum on condition they explain exactly what they did with it."},
{"chunk":59,"story":8,"summary":"The heir tells a club acquaintance that the whole fortune went elsewhere, and mentions a quiet ward left only a ring.","predicament":"Someone passed over by a will laughs it off, and notices another was treated worse."},
{"chunk":60,"story":8,"summary":"The acquaintance lists worthy uses for the money, then says the heir will only buy a dancer a jewel.","predicament":"Someone asks advice and is told, insultingly, exactly what they are expected to do."},
{"chunk":61,"story":8,"summary":"The heir offers a dancer a jewel and she barely attends; he then asks a driver and a street seller what they would do.","predicament":"Someone tests a cheap intention against the people around them, and finds nobody impressed."},
{"chunk":62,"story":8,"summary":"Learning the ward received nothing, the heir gives her the thousand dollars, saying a late amendment to the will provided it.","predicament":"Someone gives away their whole share disguised as another's due, so that it cannot be refused."},
{"chunk":63,"story":8,"summary":"The heir tells the ward he loves her, is refused, and writes an account naming the money as a debt of happiness.","predicament":"Someone who has just given everything away is turned down, and says nothing of what they did."},
{"chunk":64,"story":8,"summary":"A codicil promises fifty thousand if the money was spent unselfishly; the heir tears up the account that would prove it.","predicament":"Someone can claim a fortune only by revealing a kindness, and destroys the proof instead."},
{"chunk":65,"story":9,"summary":"A farmer's son becomes a celebrated city lawyer, remade by the city into an impeccable and narrow gentleman.","predicament":"Someone who climbed out of a humble start is reshaped by the place that rewarded them."},
{"chunk":66,"story":9,"summary":"The lawyer crowns his rise by marrying a woman of the oldest family, cold and high above every other climber.","predicament":"Someone's greatest success is a marriage they must keep proving themselves worthy of."},
{"chunk":67,"story":9,"summary":"The wife finds a letter from her husband's farming mother and announces they will visit, asking whether the farm entertains.","predicament":"Someone's hidden origins are discovered by the person they most feared would see them."},
{"chunk":68,"story":9,"summary":"They arrive at the country station, where the husband's brother jeers cheerfully and is silenced by the wife's appearance.","predicament":"Someone brings a grand partner home, where the old familiarity and the new grandeur cannot mix."},
{"chunk":69,"story":9,"summary":"The old countryside takes hold of the husband, and his wife beside him begins to seem remote and unreal.","predicament":"Someone returning to where they came from feels the person beside them turn into a stranger."},
{"chunk":70,"story":9,"summary":"On the porch the husband throws off his manners, pulls off his father's boots and challenges his brother to wrestle.","predicament":"Someone sheds the manner they built, in front of the one person it was built for."},
{"chunk":71,"story":9,"summary":"The husband wrestles, chases his sister with an insect, dances and clowns, while his wife sits silent and unreadable.","predicament":"Someone lets themselves go completely, watched in silence by the person who can ruin them."},
{"chunk":72,"story":9,"summary":"The wife retires; her husband follows, expecting condemnation, and she begins by saying she thought she married a gentleman.","predicament":"Someone waits for the judgement they are sure they have earned."},
{"chunk":73,"story":9,"summary":"The sentence ends differently: the wife says she finds she married something better, and asks her husband to kiss her.","predicament":"Someone braced for rejection is accepted for exactly what they were ashamed of."},
{"chunk":74,"story":10,"summary":"A young man disinherited for disobeying his uncle spends his last coin and takes a park bench with nothing left.","predicament":"Someone loses everything for refusing to obey, and has nowhere to go."},
{"chunk":75,"story":10,"summary":"On the bench a ragged stranger tells the ruined man that tomorrow he inherits millions, and that he is afraid.","predicament":"Someone at their lowest meets a stranger terrified by the good fortune about to arrive."},
{"chunk":76,"story":10,"summary":"The stranger explains he is a cast-off nephew summoned back to be heir, and begs the price of a drink.","predicament":"Someone recounts their fall to a stranger and asks them for money they do not have."},
{"chunk":77,"story":10,"summary":"The stranger panics, terrified that some accident will kill him in the hours before he can claim the fortune.","predicament":"Someone about to receive everything is paralysed by fear of losing it in the meantime."},
{"chunk":78,"story":10,"summary":"The ruined man calms the stranger, uses his standing at a hotel bar to get him food, and eats none himself.","predicament":"Someone spends the last of their credit on a stranger rather than on themselves."},
{"chunk":79,"story":10,"summary":"They take neighbouring benches; the stranger promises to get the ruined man a job once his fortune arrives.","predicament":"Someone is promised help by a person whose fortune has not yet arrived."},
{"chunk":80,"story":10,"summary":"At the lawyer's office next morning the stranger is told his uncle has reconsidered and will not take him back.","predicament":"Someone arrives to claim what they were promised and is told it has been withdrawn."},
{"chunk":81,"story":10,"summary":"The stranger walks out steadily cursing his uncle; the lawyer then tells the ruined man his own uncle relents, and he faints.","predicament":"Someone stood firm through ruin and collapses at the news that it is over."},
{"chunk":82,"story":11,"summary":"A writer explains that editors discard manuscripts claiming to be true, and that fiction is held in more esteem than fact.","predicament":"Someone works in a trade where the truth is the least welcome thing they can offer."},
{"chunk":83,"story":11,"summary":"A storekeeper's son comes to the city to write, carrying two grand historical manuscripts and a small local reputation.","predicament":"Someone arrives in a larger place with work that impressed the small one they left."},
{"chunk":84,"story":11,"summary":"The older writer lodges the newcomer, tests him with an assignment he refuses, and the two live cheaply and happily.","predicament":"Someone takes a newcomer in hand and is pleased when they refuse the obvious advice."},
{"chunk":85,"story":11,"summary":"The newcomer's love stories come back rejected; the older writer finds them well made but empty of living substance.","predicament":"Someone's work is correct in every part and lifeless, and they cannot see why."},
{"chunk":86,"story":11,"summary":"Told he must fall in love before he can write it, the newcomer does, and is wrecked by a careless young woman.","predicament":"Someone takes advice to feel a thing for themselves, and it costs them more than expected."},
{"chunk":87,"story":11,"summary":"The newcomer writes the story while the feeling is on him; it is sentimental drivel, and all his craft has vanished.","predicament":"Someone writes straight from feeling and produces the worst work they have ever done."},
{"chunk":88,"story":11,"summary":"After recovering, the newcomer is worshipped by another woman he only mildly likes, and sits down to write again.","predicament":"Someone is loved fiercely by a person they do not love, and uses it."},
{"chunk":89,"story":11,"summary":"The new story is brilliant; the newcomer says an artist must be a cad, tears it up and goes home to his father's store.","predicament":"Someone finds they can only succeed by using another's feeling, and refuses the success."}
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"summary": "A young woman about to sail receives the suitor who wronged her coldly, and produces a keepsake motto as evidence against him.",
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},
{
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"summary": "The suitor draws a second motto counselling forgiveness and pleads to be taken back, renouncing the woman who lured him away.",
"predicament": "Someone begs forgiveness for a betrayal, using whatever chance puts in their hand."
},
{
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"summary": "A street seller rests his cart nightly under the window where a celebrated dancer sits while her maids dress her hair.",
"predicament": "A working person and an admired one share a place daily without either being anything to the other."
},
{
"chunk": 93,
"story": 12,
"summary": "The dancer asks the street seller whether she is beautiful; he refuses to flatter her and talks about the weather.",
"predicament": "Someone used to admiration meets a person who will not give it, and keeps asking."
},
{
"chunk": 94,
"story": 12,
"summary": "The street seller mocks the dancer's fishing for compliments, says his plain evening contents him, and goes in to read.",
"predicament": "Someone declines another's power over them and states plainly what they would rather have."
},
{
"chunk": 95,
"story": 12,
"summary": "Piqued, the dancer works daily on the seller until she makes him look into her eyes; next evening he comes dressed up.",
"predicament": "Someone pursues another only to prove that they can, and succeeds."
},
{
"chunk": 96,
"story": 12,
"summary": "Bored the moment he is won, the dancer laughs at the seller's offer of his savings until he leaves; then she screams.",
"predicament": "Someone wins another's devotion, finds it worthless, and is undone by news of their own."
},
{
"chunk": 97,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Nature moves in circles and the city in straight lines, and the city remakes whatever comes into it to its angles.",
"predicament": "A place remakes everyone who enters it into its own shape."
},
{
"chunk": 98,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Two mountain families kill each other over forty years until one man of each remains, and one of them disappears.",
"predicament": "An inherited quarrel consumes everyone until only its two last holders are left."
},
{
"chunk": 99,
"story": 13,
"summary": "The last survivor of one family learns his enemy lives in the city, packs a revolver and a knife, and follows him.",
"predicament": "Someone carries an old obligation of vengeance into a place where it has no standing."
},
{
"chunk": 100,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Hunting his enemy along the crowded avenues, the mountain man finds a world of straight lines and rushing strangers.",
"predicament": "Someone arrives to do what they came for and finds the place itself defeats them."
},
{
"chunk": 101,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Unseen by thousands of passing faces, the stranger fails even to open a door and is moved along by a policeman.",
"predicament": "Someone surrounded by people is more alone than they have ever been, and unwanted."
},
{
"chunk": 102,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Jostled and abused by traffic and passers-by, the stranger meets his hereditary enemy at last and shakes his hand gladly.",
"predicament": "Someone meets the enemy they came to destroy and finds them the only familiar face."
},
{
"chunk": 103,
"story": 14,
"summary": "A poet throws down a magazine and declares romance dead, cataloguing its contents to a cheerful clerk who disagrees by existing.",
"predicament": "Someone declares the thing they live for extinct, to a listener who does not care."
},
{
"chunk": 104,
"story": 14,
"summary": "A plain-dressed clerk sits at the poet's window above an old garden, where an old gentleman refuses to sell his house.",
"predicament": "Someone holds out against every offer to give up what they love."
},
{
"chunk": 105,
"story": 14,
"summary": "The clerk visits often as a useful foil, and the poet reads him his printed verses about four roses.",
"predicament": "Someone keeps a companion around chiefly to feel superior to them."
},
{
"chunk": 106,
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"summary": "The clerk cuts the reading short and leaves; next day the poet sees a beautiful young woman at the opposite window.",
"predicament": "Someone whose work goes unheard is consoled by a stranger glimpsed at a distance."
},
{
"chunk": 107,
"story": 14,
"summary": "Four roses appear in the young woman's window and the poet reads them as her answer to his published verses.",
"predicament": "Someone reads a message meant for another as a sign addressed to themselves."
},
{
"chunk": 108,
"story": 14,
"summary": "A flower book tells the poet a meeting is expected; the clerk arrives, checks his watch and hurries off to an appointment.",
"predicament": "Someone assembles proof of their good fortune while the truth walks in and out of the room."
},
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"chunk": 109,
"story": 14,
"summary": "The clerk explains that the roses are his fiancee's signal of the hour, and that the flowerpot means half-past.",
"predicament": "Someone's private sign is explained away by the ordinary arrangement of two other people."
},
{
"chunk": 110,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Officials proclaim that during the heat the people may sleep in the parks, and whole neighbourhoods move out into one.",
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},
{
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"summary": "Tenants pack bedding and household goods, protesting to the janitor, while an officer orders everyone out to the park.",
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},
{
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"story": 15,
"summary": "The narrator praises the mixed and companionable life of the tenement on hot nights, then describes being herded into the dark park.",
"predicament": "Someone is rescued from a life they were content with, by people who never asked."
},
{
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"story": 15,
"summary": "The officer threatens imprisonment for refusal, and the tenants pass the night in the dark judging strangers by feel.",
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},
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"chunk": 114,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Two tenants complain that the rent runs on while they lie in the grass, and joke that this is the city's charity.",
"predicament": "Someone pays for a home they are not allowed to sleep in."
},
{
"chunk": 115,
"story": 15,
"summary": "In the dark the social distinctions of the building collapse into a heap, and by morning five engagements have been announced.",
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},
{
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"story": 15,
"summary": "A well-dressed man stops his car to ask why the people lie in the grass, and takes the answer down in a book.",
"predicament": "Someone comfortable asks why others are suffering, and promises to see to it."
},
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"chunk": 117,
"story": 16,
"summary": "A big idle striker wakes restless and unaccountably disturbed, knocks his brothers aside, and cannot say what ails him.",
"predicament": "Someone is unsettled by a feeling they cannot name and will not admit."
},
{
"chunk": 118,
"story": 16,
"summary": "His mother says the season is in his bones; he denies every sign of spring and goes to his usual idle corner.",
"predicament": "Someone denies a change that everyone around them can feel."
},
{
"chunk": 119,
"story": 16,
"summary": "He looks for signs of the season, orders a drink and leaves it untasted, and snaps at the bartender who mocks him.",
"predicament": "Someone's usual pleasures stop satisfying them, and they take it out on bystanders."
},
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"story": 16,
"summary": "A friendly barber insists the season is coming; the restless man denies it, then fights a standing enemy in the street.",
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"summary": "He hunts a sentimental song under a pretext, then knocks at the young woman's door and asks her opinion of the weather.",
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"chunk": 122,
"story": 16,
"summary": "He names the feeling as her, says he starts work Monday, and she accepts; snow falls and he calls it springtime anyway.",
"predicament": "Someone finally names what they want, and the weather no longer decides anything."
},
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"chunk": 123,
"story": 17,
"summary": "A southern saying summons an imaginary old man who kills fools, invoked in every household with a smile or a tear.",
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},
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"story": 17,
"summary": "A writer explains how an illustrator wrecks a story with details he never wrote, and how far an artist stands from an author.",
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},
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"story": 17,
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},
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"story": 17,
"summary": "The artist's rich father objects to the match, so the artist gives up the inheritance and lives on credit and sausages.",
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"summary": "The artist plans to marry within the week on the price of one picture, while the writer drinks and repeats his verdict.",
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"story": 17,
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"story": 17,
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"story": 17,
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"story": 17,
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}
]
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{"chunk":135,"story":18,"summary":"A gracious lady arrives and is treated by staff and guests as the perfect ornament of their exclusive retreat.","predicament":"Someone's bearing alone persuades everyone around them of a station they never state."},
{"chunk":136,"story":18,"summary":"Rumours make the lady a cosmopolitan; a well-dressed young man arrives, asks about sailings and settles in for a few days.","predicament":"Two strangers each arrive carrying an account of themselves that the place is eager to believe."},
{"chunk":137,"story":18,"summary":"A dropped handkerchief introduces them, and the two agree that the old resorts are ruined by the crowds who follow them.","predicament":"Two people flatter each other with a shared complaint neither has the standing to make."},
{"chunk":138,"story":18,"summary":"Each says they leave on Monday, she for a chateau abroad, and they spend a last evening together on the balcony.","predicament":"Two people approach the end of a pretence that neither wants to be the first to break."},
{"chunk":139,"story":18,"summary":"The lady confesses she sells hosiery for eight dollars a week and saved a year to live like a lady once.","predicament":"Someone confesses the truth about themselves rather than leave the other deceived."},
{"chunk":140,"story":18,"summary":"He writes her a receipt: he collects instalments on that very dress, saved as she did, and they plan an outing together.","predicament":"Someone answers another's confession with the same one, and the pretence becomes a shared joke."},
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{"chunk":144,"story":19,"summary":"The youth greets the star as a neighbour and retails the village news until she draws him to a private table.","predicament":"News of the place someone escaped pulls their attention away from all their present company."},
{"chunk":145,"story":19,"summary":"She cannot recall him but asks after her family, and he answers with the changes at her parents' house.","predicament":"Someone asks a stranger for news of the family they have not visited."},
{"chunk":146,"story":19,"summary":"He describes her mother watching the road daily for her return, and gives her a rose from the home doorstep.","predicament":"Someone is shown how long they have been waited for by the people they left."},
{"chunk":147,"story":19,"summary":"She laughs the village off and goes; when the actor calls next day her maid says she has returned there to live.","predicament":"Someone laughs off what moved them, then abandons everything to go back."},
{"chunk":148,"story":20,"summary":"A detective meets an old friend on the street, takes him aside and asks straight out why he killed the murdered man.","predicament":"Someone must act against a person they owe a debt of friendship to."},
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{"chunk":150,"story":20,"summary":"The killer explains the shooting and the theft, then says the detective owes him a thousand dollars and cannot touch him.","predicament":"Someone escapes justice by holding an old favour over the person who must judge them."},
{"chunk":151,"story":20,"summary":"The detective concedes that the debt binds him, and says nothing else could have bought the man out of his hands.","predicament":"Someone is stopped from doing their duty by a debt they never repaid."},
{"chunk":152,"story":20,"summary":"The detective says he will resign, and the killer's boasting of past crimes turns his old gratitude into cold disgust.","predicament":"Someone repaying an old kindness discovers the person they are protecting deserves nothing."},
{"chunk":153,"story":20,"summary":"Enraged at the mention of newspapers, the killer goes to a telephone to prove to an editor what he thinks of them.","predicament":"Someone's vanity drives them to taunt the one power they have not accounted for."},
{"chunk":154,"story":20,"summary":"On the telephone he confesses the murder to the editor and proves it with a detail only the killer could know.","predicament":"Someone proves their boast by handing over the one fact that can convict them."},
{"chunk":155,"story":20,"summary":"He hangs up gloating and spends the night at shows and suppers, while the detective broods and then begins to wonder.","predicament":"Someone celebrates their safety while the person beside them looks for a way out."},
{"chunk":156,"story":20,"summary":"At dawn the newsboys cry the papers; the detective buys one, looks at the front page and begins writing with the pencil.","predicament":"Someone finds a way to do their duty and clear their debt at the same time."},
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{"chunk":164,"story":21,"summary":"Her sweetheart arrives, tells her to wipe off the paint and pack, mentions the trees at home, and she goes.","predicament":"Someone's grand renunciation is ended by the plain arrival of the person renounced."},
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{"chunk":169,"story":22,"summary":"He excuses himself, and the whole company applauds and calls his name while she sits dazzled among the fine guests.","predicament":"Someone sees their companion greeted as a great person by a room full of strangers."},
{"chunk":170,"story":22,"summary":"He returns in shirtsleeves to season the dishes at every table; her fear of a penniless nobleman rises fourfold first.","predicament":"Someone's fear of a suitor's grand pretensions peaks just before the truth arrives."},
{"chunk":171,"story":22,"summary":"He tells her he is the restaurant's famous owner and cook and asks her to marry him; she accepts with relief.","predicament":"Someone learns their suitor is a worker, not a gentleman, and is glad of it."},
{"chunk":172,"story":23,"summary":"A clubman is bored by his companions' repeated stories and has been refused for the fifth time by the woman he courts.","predicament":"Someone's days are identical and the one thing they want keeps being refused."},
{"chunk":173,"story":23,"summary":"Strolling out, the clubman is accosted by a man from the loafing corner of thieves, and gladly goes aside to talk.","predicament":"Someone starved of novelty welcomes an approach that anyone else would avoid."},
{"chunk":174,"story":23,"summary":"The stranger announces himself a burglar and confidence man, and asks the clubman what is wrong with the way he dresses.","predicament":"Someone asks a stranger for the one expertise they lack, offering candour in exchange."},
{"chunk":175,"story":23,"summary":"The clubman itemises every fault of the burglar's expensive outfit, and the burglar demands more of the criticism.","predicament":"Someone hears their own faults catalogued and asks for the rest of the list."},
{"chunk":176,"story":23,"summary":"Offered his host's tailor, the burglar boasts of a robbery and lays the clubman's own watch and pocketbook on the table.","predicament":"Someone proves their trust by returning what they had already taken from the person trusting them."},
{"chunk":177,"story":23,"summary":"Introduced at the club as a burglar and disbelieved, the stranger holds the whole table with an account of the West.","predicament":"Someone brings an outsider among their set and the outsider outshines all of them."},
{"chunk":178,"story":23,"summary":"Before leaving, the stranger tells the clubman he is the real thing and promises to return the favour some day.","predicament":"Someone's help is repaid with an offer they may never be able to use."},
{"chunk":179,"story":23,"summary":"At lunch the clubman talks only of ranches and says he is going West; the woman who refused him says she will come.","predicament":"Someone stops asking for what they wanted, and is given it at once."}
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{"chunk":181,"story":24,"summary":"The hotel is full of resting players besieging managers for next season, and she wonders aloud where her old friend is.","predicament":"Someone among many in the same trade waits, with all of them chasing the same few places."},
{"chunk":182,"story":24,"summary":"Her friend's act was throwing a garter to the audience nightly; after two years she quit for a village on the shore.","predicament":"Someone abandons a profitable performance because of what it required them to be."},
{"chunk":183,"story":24,"summary":"The friend arrives travel-stained and agitated, drops her bag, and says she has come straight up to talk.","predicament":"Someone returns abruptly from the life they left, upset and not yet saying why."},
{"chunk":184,"story":24,"summary":"She says she left the stage sick of the life, and above all of the men the work forced her to meet.","predicament":"Someone leaves good work because of what they must endure from the people around it."},
{"chunk":185,"story":24,"summary":"She describes the suppers, the leering men and the middling actress who hangs on for the chance that never comes.","predicament":"Someone knows they will never rise, and keeps at it anyway for want of a better hope."},
{"chunk":186,"story":24,"summary":"She took a room by the sea, met a young clergyman lodging there, and within a month they were engaged.","predicament":"Someone starting a new life quickly finds the respectable future they thought impossible."},
{"chunk":187,"story":24,"summary":"She hides her stage past; the landlady tells her he treasures a keepsake of an unhappy love in a locked box.","predicament":"Someone hiding their own past learns the person they love keeps a locked one."},
{"chunk":188,"story":24,"summary":"Questioned, he says his earlier love was ideal: a woman he never met, seen from a distance, far above him.","predicament":"Someone questions a partner about an old attachment and is given an answer too good to doubt."},
{"chunk":189,"story":24,"summary":"His answer raises him in her eyes; then, left alone with his forgotten keys, she opens the drawer out of curiosity.","predicament":"Someone's admiration for another leads them to look at the one thing kept from them."},
{"chunk":190,"story":24,"summary":"One look inside the box sends her packing; she pays the landlady, declares all men alike, and takes the next train.","predicament":"Someone discovers the truth in a keepsake and ends everything without saying what they saw."},
{"chunk":191,"story":25,"summary":"Outsiders hold cheap and lurid ideas about stage people, while privately practising gestures in front of their own mirrors.","predicament":"People look down on a trade they secretly wish they were fit for."},
{"chunk":192,"story":25,"summary":"A performer has toured four years with a mixed act, working to the approval of the musicians below the stage.","predicament":"Someone works a trade for years, competent and unremarkable, waiting for the thing that lifts them."},
{"chunk":193,"story":25,"summary":"Bored by the whole bill, the performer sits up when a young woman does character songs and impersonations.","predicament":"Someone weary of their own trade is stopped short by one person doing it well."},
{"chunk":194,"story":25,"summary":"She exactly fits the part in the sketch he has kept hidden in his trunk, so he calls at her lodgings next day.","predicament":"Someone finds the one person who fits the plan they have kept to themselves for years."},
{"chunk":195,"story":25,"summary":"He reads her the sketch; she names its weak points and he accepts every change without argument.","predicament":"Someone offers their guarded work and finds it improved by the person they offered it to."},
{"chunk":196,"story":25,"summary":"She asks his salary, names her lower one, and says she works for money and means to save for a country home.","predicament":"Someone states plainly that they are in this for money, before agreeing to anything."},
{"chunk":197,"story":25,"summary":"She insists the partnership be strictly business with no nonsense; he agrees and describes his own dream of a quiet house.","predicament":"Two people agree to work together on the condition that nothing personal enters it."},
{"chunk":198,"story":25,"summary":"The pair cut, rewrite and rehearse the sketch through every known improvement until it is ready.","predicament":"Two people grind a shared piece of work into shape over many months."},
{"chunk":199,"story":25,"summary":"The act uses a real revolver and a live cartridge in a melodrama of a ranch, a theft and a jealous woman.","predicament":"Two people build their living on a performance that requires one of them to shoot accurately."},
{"chunk":200,"story":25,"summary":"In the story the ranch owner dies, a fortune vanishes, and the woman is convinced her lover is the thief.","predicament":"Someone concludes the person they love has robbed them, on the evidence of who was there."},
{"chunk":201,"story":25,"summary":"At the climax she fires through a rival's photograph; the bullet strikes a hidden spring and the missing fortune appears.","predicament":"Someone aims a shot to prove mercy, and hits the thing that clears the accused."},
{"chunk":202,"story":25,"summary":"The act triumphs and books at five hundred a week; she asks him inside to hear a proposal that will cut their expenses.","predicament":"Someone proposes an arrangement to another on the grounds that it will save them both money."},
{"chunk":203,"story":25,"summary":"For two years the act tours to full houses, the pair known everywhere as quiet, hard workers who go straight home.","predicament":"Two people build savings and a spotless name by never once being seen to enjoy themselves."},
{"chunk":204,"story":25,"summary":"Nervous at a first night, she fires wide and the bullet enters her partner's neck; the audience applauds the supposed comedy.","predicament":"Someone's nerve fails once at the exact thing they have done perfectly a thousand times."},
{"chunk":205,"story":25,"summary":"A fellow performer tells the wounded man that his partner is frantic with love for him; he calls it impossible.","predicament":"Someone is told that the person nearest them loves them, and cannot believe it."},
{"chunk":206,"story":25,"summary":"He insists it is too late, and reveals that the two of them have been quietly married for two years.","predicament":"Someone hears that love has arrived and answers that the arrangement was settled long ago."},
{"chunk":207,"story":26,"summary":"A quarter of the city gathers exiles from the south, who plot, raise funds and buy arms from a favourite cafe.","predicament":"Exiles gather in one place to plan a return that most of them will never make."},
{"chunk":208,"story":26,"summary":"A general arrives by liner from the south, short, grand and important, and makes for the quarter where his countrymen gather.","predicament":"Someone arrives in a strange city on an errand for their country, conspicuous in every way."},
{"chunk":209,"story":26,"summary":"He takes rooms at a hotel whose blond landlady charms him, and reminds himself that his country claims his devotion.","predicament":"Someone on an errand is distracted at once by what they find where they lodge."},
{"chunk":210,"story":26,"summary":"Bewildered by traffic, the general is marked by two street predators, and the smoother of them rescues him and gains his trust.","predicament":"Someone helpless in a strange place is helped by the person planning to rob them."},
{"chunk":211,"story":26,"summary":"Over bottles the general loudly confides that he carries drafts for twenty-five thousand to buy rifles for a revolution.","predicament":"Someone announces a secret errand and its funds to a stranger at the top of their voice."},
{"chunk":212,"story":26,"summary":"The stranger promises to introduce him to the Secretary of War, and tells him to keep the drafts in his pocket.","predicament":"Someone is promised access to a great official by the one person who has befriended them."},
{"chunk":213,"story":26,"summary":"The stranger telephones a confidence man and casts him as the Secretary of War for the following afternoon.","predicament":"Someone arranges for an accomplice to impersonate the authority their mark is expecting."},
{"chunk":214,"story":26,"summary":"On the way out the stranger insults the landlady with a joke she overhears; the false official then plays his part.","predicament":"Someone insults, in passing, the one person able to ruin their scheme."},
{"chunk":215,"story":26,"summary":"Cases are filled with bricks for the sale, and the landlady takes the general aside to ask about his new friend.","predicament":"Someone about to be cheated is taken aside by the person who sees through it."},
{"chunk":216,"story":26,"summary":"The general buys the hotel's furnishings and lease with the money and proposes to the landlady; the swindler chokes with rage.","predicament":"Someone abandons the cause they were entrusted with for a comfortable life and a marriage."},
{"chunk":217,"story":26,"summary":"The general calls it politics, says war is not nice, and asks whether the swindler has tasted the landlady's cooking.","predicament":"Someone explains away a betrayal as good sense, and recommends the life they chose."},
{"chunk":218,"story":27,"summary":"A confidence man follows an old partner's advice and comes to the city, meeting him again on the street.","predicament":"Someone past their best moves to richer ground on a colleague's advice."},
{"chunk":219,"story":27,"summary":"The partner insists the city's people beg to be robbed, and proposes they work the town together as in old times.","predicament":"Someone is urged into a scheme by a partner who insists it cannot fail."},
{"chunk":220,"story":27,"summary":"He recounts schemes abandoned for being too easy; the newcomer says the people here do not look easy to him.","predicament":"Someone doubts a partner's confidence about a place they do not yet know."},
{"chunk":221,"story":27,"summary":"The partner mocks the newcomer's caution, who says he wishes he had stayed with the small sure business at home.","predicament":"Someone doubts the large opportunity and misses the modest certainty they left."},
{"chunk":222,"story":27,"summary":"They pool their money, and an acquaintance brings a famous financier to their room to meet men from the West.","predicament":"Two people pool everything they have and are promptly introduced to a great man."},
{"chunk":223,"story":27,"summary":"The financier rages that a painting cannot be found and would pay seventy-five thousand; afterwards they stroll past a pawnshop.","predicament":"Someone hears what a rich person desperately wants, moments before appearing to find it."},
{"chunk":224,"story":27,"summary":"The partner has seen that very picture in the pawnshop, and next morning they go in to bargain for it.","predicament":"Someone spots the chance that has been placed in front of them and hurries to take it."},
{"chunk":225,"story":27,"summary":"They pay two thousand for the picture; the financier has been abroad a month, and the same print sells everywhere for dollars.","predicament":"Two people spend everything on a certainty and find they were the marks all along."}
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{"chunk":226,"story":28,"summary":"An artist has only four stock pictures for the spring festival, which shows how vague the occasion is in everyone's mind.","predicament":"People keep an occasion whose meaning none of them can say."},
{"chunk":227,"story":28,"summary":"A young carter rises late on the holiday; his blind father sits by the window with a pipe, saying it is fine spring weather.","predicament":"Someone's day of freedom is watched wistfully by a person who cannot leave the room."},
{"chunk":228,"story":28,"summary":"The son snaps that he earns the rent and may go out; his mother says the blind man rambles about a hippopotamus.","predicament":"Someone answers a mild wish with anger, and is told the old one is wandering in mind."},
{"chunk":229,"story":28,"summary":"He asks the janitor and a policeman what the festival is for and whether anyone has spoken of a hippopotamus.","predicament":"Someone goes about asking others to explain a thing nobody around them understands."},
{"chunk":230,"story":28,"summary":"He asks a waiter why the festival exists, gets a joke, and meets the young woman he courts going to church.","predicament":"Someone taking a holiday they do not enjoy looks for a reason in every face they pass."},
{"chunk":231,"story":28,"summary":"At church the preacher's theme is new life arising from the old; afterwards he leaves the young woman piqued on a corner.","predicament":"Someone hears the thing they needed said, without knowing they have heard it."},
{"chunk":232,"story":28,"summary":"Two blocks on, something stirs in him: the old man meant an ancient war, not an animal, and he takes a car home.","predicament":"Someone suddenly understands what a neglected person had been asking them for."},
{"chunk":233,"story":28,"summary":"He takes down the dusty history, roars the question, and reads for an hour while the blind man weeps with joy.","predicament":"Someone resumes a small duty they had dropped, and finds it was everything to another."},
{"chunk":234,"story":29,"summary":"On a cold night a preacher on a box pays for beds, fifteen cents a man, for whoever gathers in the line.","predicament":"People with nowhere to sleep line up nightly for a stranger's charity."},
{"chunk":235,"story":29,"summary":"Among the bedless stands a discharged coachman, sacked for drunkenness a month before and now in the line with the rest.","predicament":"Someone dismissed for their own fault has fallen further than they can climb back."},
{"chunk":236,"story":29,"summary":"A month of whisky has him seeing things; he speaks to the shabby young man beside him about how each came there.","predicament":"Someone at the bottom looks for company and asks a neighbour how they fell."},
{"chunk":237,"story":29,"summary":"The other married against his family, lost work and health, and sent his wife away; then a tire falls from a passing car.","predicament":"Someone cut off by their family for a marriage has nothing left and no way to work."},
{"chunk":238,"story":29,"summary":"The coachman runs the tire down expecting a coin; the owner asks if he knows a certain family and tells him to get in.","predicament":"Someone hoping for a small tip is instead taken up by a stranger for unexplained reasons."},
{"chunk":239,"story":29,"summary":"He is left alone in a gorgeous dark room, where a stuffed owl suddenly raises its wings and shines light from its eyes.","predicament":"Someone brought into a stranger's house is left alone among things they cannot explain."},
{"chunk":240,"story":29,"summary":"He hurls a statuette at the owl; the grand host appears, excuses the toy, and returns to the question of the family.","predicament":"Someone's fright breaks their host's property just as the real business begins."},
{"chunk":241,"story":29,"summary":"The host promises good fortune; the coachman, hoping for reinstatement, offers to give up drink if taken back.","predicament":"Someone is promised good fortune and asks only for their old place back."},
{"chunk":242,"story":29,"summary":"Two women arrive; the elder says she has lost faith in the professor's art and came only because her sister insisted.","predicament":"Someone who has paid for years for hope is close to giving it up."},
{"chunk":243,"story":29,"summary":"The professor reveals the oracle about the fifth wheel, promises proof, and asks the coachman if he would go back home.","predicament":"Someone stakes their credibility on producing the person another is desperate to see."},
{"chunk":244,"story":29,"summary":"Asked his name, he answers plainly; the professor drags him to the door and kicks him down the steps without explanation.","predicament":"Someone is thrown out the moment they turn out not to be who was wanted."},
{"chunk":245,"story":29,"summary":"He walks back to the line; then the maid he courted comes running to him, weeping, saying she came to find him.","predicament":"Someone back at the bottom is found by the person who never stopped looking."},
{"chunk":246,"story":29,"summary":"She says the household will take him back, credits the professor, and he asks her for money for the sick man beside him.","predicament":"Someone newly rescued asks for money for the stranger who is worse off."},
{"chunk":247,"story":29,"summary":"The sick man proves to be the household's lost son, hunted for three years, and he agrees to go home.","predicament":"Someone missing for years is found beside the person who was being searched for."},
{"chunk":248,"story":29,"summary":"On the car home the coachman half-remembers the house of owls and lights, and says he would punch that man's nose.","predicament":"Someone who was thrown out never learns they were the reason everything came right."},
{"chunk":249,"story":30,"summary":"A genuine country poem is rejected as artificial, so a city writer composes a false one and they send it to the same editor.","predicament":"The real thing is rejected as a fake, so someone submits a fake instead."},
{"chunk":250,"story":30,"summary":"A countryman steps off the ferry with hay in his hair; the crowds glance once, decide he is overdone, and ignore him.","predicament":"Someone genuinely out of place is taken for a bad imitation of themselves."},
{"chunk":251,"story":30,"summary":"A confidence man advises him his rustic get-up is overdone, refuses a card game, and buys him a drink instead.","predicament":"Someone honest is warned by a cheat that their appearance is unconvincing."},
{"chunk":252,"story":30,"summary":"He produces nine hundred and fifty dollars; the cheat admires the roll but still says the clothes will never work.","predicament":"Someone shows real money and is complimented on a good prop."},
{"chunk":253,"story":30,"summary":"A bartender scoffs at his valise of money, and a news-seller refuses to change his note, calling it stage money.","predicament":"Someone cannot get anyone to take their money, because nobody believes it is theirs."},
{"chunk":254,"story":30,"summary":"A gambling tout waves him off as a decoy, and he concludes his clothes are what keep the city from noticing him.","predicament":"Someone is refused everywhere and decides the problem is how they are dressed."},
{"chunk":255,"story":30,"summary":"He outfits himself in the latest fashion, steps out at nine, and by half-past eleven has been robbed of everything.","predicament":"Someone made themselves look worth robbing, and immediately was."},
{"chunk":256,"story":30,"summary":"The editor praises the city writer's poem as the work of one raised close to nature, and pays for it as usual.","predicament":"A judge praises the imitation for the very quality the real thing was denied."},
{"chunk":257,"story":31,"summary":"A man admired as the best-dressed in the city keeps a servant pressing trousers and never wears a pair three hours.","predicament":"Someone's whole standing rests on an appearance that takes constant work to keep."},
{"chunk":258,"story":31,"summary":"He vanishes without motive, debt, enemy or woman; two friends travelling abroad hear of a remote mountain monastery.","predicament":"Someone disappears completely, leaving those who knew them no reason at all."},
{"chunk":259,"story":31,"summary":"At the monastery they watch the brothers file past and recognise their vanished friend among them.","predicament":"Someone is found living a life nobody who knew them would have predicted."},
{"chunk":260,"story":31,"summary":"They confirm it is he, sitting among the shabby brothers, never looking up, eating broth from a coarse bowl.","predicament":"Someone who lived for elegance is seen content among the plainest of things."},
{"chunk":261,"story":31,"summary":"He comes serene and happy in a rough robe, greets them easily, and asks whether that waistcoat is the new fashion.","predicament":"Someone found in a new life shows no embarrassment and asks after the old one's fashions."},
{"chunk":262,"story":31,"summary":"They beg him to come back; he says he has reached his goal, having found at last a garment that never bags.","predicament":"Someone explains a life-changing choice by a reason nobody else can take seriously."},
{"chunk":263,"story":32,"summary":"A travelling swindler takes his holidays in the city, practising a tune in a hall bedroom beside a pistol and a roll of notes.","predicament":"Someone whose trade is deception rests where nobody knows them."},
{"chunk":264,"story":32,"summary":"He says women do not specialise in his trade because they are already fully occupied extracting money from men.","predicament":"Someone explains that one group must bargain constantly for what the other simply holds."},
{"chunk":265,"story":32,"summary":"He calls a wife's kiss for a jewel the same trade, then tells of a striking country woman and a rich man he met.","predicament":"Someone argues that every exchange of affection for money is the same transaction."},
{"chunk":266,"story":32,"summary":"The rich man's one ambition is to be noticed; he has tried gifts, accidents and paying reporters, and got nothing.","predicament":"Someone with money enough to live on cannot buy the one thing they want: notice."},
{"chunk":267,"story":32,"summary":"The swindler offers to put him in every paper for a week, and names ten thousand dollars as the price.","predicament":"Someone offers to sell another the attention they have failed to buy honestly."},
{"chunk":268,"story":32,"summary":"The plan: a month of showy courtship and terrible love letters, then a desertion and a huge breach of promise suit.","predicament":"Three people contract to stage a betrayal for the publicity the trial will bring."},
{"chunk":269,"story":32,"summary":"She coaches him into writing worse love letters, and in a crowded restaurant a process-server hands him the papers publicly.","predicament":"Someone stages their own humiliation in public and is proud of how it looks."},
{"chunk":270,"story":32,"summary":"Two hours later the pair return married, leaving behind a railway ticket and two pairs of the rich man's old trousers.","predicament":"Two people hired to stage a courtship carry it through for real and pay nothing."}
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{"chunk":271,"story":33,"summary":"Western visitors mope in hotel lobbies; one of them is swept from his companions by the rush hour and backs into a doorway.","predicament":"Someone from far away is separated from their companions and swamped by a crowd."},
{"chunk":272,"story":33,"summary":"Everything about him marks where he came from; he suddenly hauls a passing man out of the crowd and strikes him affectionately.","predicament":"Someone greets an old friend in the manner of home, which here looks like assault."},
{"chunk":273,"story":33,"summary":"The friend is now a polished city businessman; the visitor accuses him of becoming tame and orders whiskey against his cocktail.","predicament":"Someone finds an old friend remade by the place they settled in, and says so."},
{"chunk":274,"story":33,"summary":"At lunch the friend orders delicate dishes and defends the city as comfortable, saying he cannot make himself go back.","predicament":"Someone defends the soft life they chose to a person who knew them hard."},
{"chunk":275,"story":33,"summary":"The visitor denounces him as a renegade softened by small drinks; the friend half agrees and repeats that the city is comfortable.","predicament":"Someone is told they have been ruined by comfort and can only agree."},
{"chunk":276,"story":33,"summary":"At an elegant dinner the visitor keeps scorning each refinement while quietly watching the room and its diners.","predicament":"Someone mocking a way of life keeps looking at it more closely than they admit."},
{"chunk":277,"story":33,"summary":"He admires a woman across the room, muses about selling his ranch, orders two cocktails and says they are on him.","predicament":"Someone who came to scorn a place starts pricing what it would cost to stay."},
{"chunk":278,"story":34,"summary":"A speculator corners the flour market, adding two cents to every loaf, and retires with two million dollars.","predicament":"Someone grows rich by taking a little from everyone who cannot avoid buying."},
{"chunk":279,"story":34,"summary":"The speculator's easy-tempered son and his intense socialist friend meet again after college, when the son has inherited everything.","predicament":"Someone inherits a fortune and returns to the friend who despises how it was made."},
{"chunk":280,"story":34,"summary":"The heir says he wants to pay back the people overcharged for bread; his friend tells him it cannot be done.","predicament":"Someone wanting to undo an inherited wrong is told restitution is impossible."},
{"chunk":281,"story":34,"summary":"The heir presses for a way; his friend argues that each penny taken from the poor multiplied a thousandfold in harm.","predicament":"Someone offers money to repair harm and is told money cannot reach it."},
{"chunk":282,"story":34,"summary":"As an instance, a small baker was ruined by the price rise, went mad, burned a building and died in an asylum.","predicament":"One person's profit destroyed a small tradesman and everyone who depended on him."},
{"chunk":283,"story":34,"summary":"The last item of the instance is the baker's daughter sewing shirts for four dollars a week; she orders the heir out.","predicament":"Someone meets the person their family ruined and is refused even a hearing."},
{"chunk":284,"story":34,"summary":"Two months later the watchmaker meets her in furs, haggling over the price of bread: she has married the heir.","predicament":"Someone shut out by an injured person returns and marries them instead."},
{"chunk":285,"story":34,"summary":"A reporter says he could not make a funny column of a violinist's story, and hands the details to his writer friend.","predicament":"Someone cannot make the expected joke of a story and gives it to another."},
{"chunk":286,"story":34,"summary":"At a wedding twenty years ago the best man climbs the fire escape and begs the bride to run away with him.","predicament":"Someone who lost a rivalry makes a last desperate appeal on the day it is settled."},
{"chunk":287,"story":34,"summary":"She scorns him, and as he kisses her hand in farewell the bridegroom walks in on the two of them.","predicament":"Someone refuses an advance and is seen at the worst possible instant."},
{"chunk":288,"story":34,"summary":"The bridegroom throws her down and leaves forever; twenty years pass and she keeps the shop and loves him still.","predicament":"Someone is cast off over an innocent moment and waits decades without explanation."},
{"chunk":289,"story":34,"summary":"She refuses a suitor because she is still married, lets rooms, and a grey-haired violinist takes the front one.","predicament":"Someone refuses every new offer out of loyalty to a person long vanished."},
{"chunk":290,"story":34,"summary":"A second lodger with haunting eyes charms her, and she concludes he is her returned husband, but gives no sign.","predicament":"Someone believes a stranger is the person who left them, and waits to be told."},
{"chunk":291,"story":34,"summary":"The violinist declares his love and admits he knows neither his name nor anything before waking in a hospital.","predicament":"Someone offers marriage while admitting they do not know who they are."},
{"chunk":292,"story":34,"summary":"She tells him she is married; an hour later the other lodger begs her to forgive the wrong of twenty years.","predicament":"Someone bound by an old vow is asked by two people to choose between them."},
{"chunk":293,"story":34,"summary":"He confesses that he struck her husband down that night; she cries out, breaks away and runs upstairs toward the music.","predicament":"Someone learns their long loyalty was to the wrong person, and runs to the right one."},
{"chunk":294,"story":35,"summary":"An overworked lawyer parts from his wife in the usual way, recalling his doctor's warning that his brain may give way.","predicament":"Someone worn down by years of work ignores a warning that they will break."},
{"chunk":295,"story":35,"summary":"He wakes on a day coach with no memory of who he is, no papers, and three thousand dollars in his pocket.","predicament":"Someone comes to themselves among strangers with money and no idea who they are."},
{"chunk":296,"story":35,"summary":"Put on the spot by a friendly traveller, he invents a name and a trade on the strength of the man's own talk.","predicament":"Someone with no identity invents one from whatever is nearest to hand."},
{"chunk":297,"story":35,"summary":"The traveller presses his shelf-bottle reform, and hands him a newspaper item about a supposed case of lost memory.","predicament":"Someone hears their own condition dismissed as a fraud by a stranger."},
{"chunk":298,"story":35,"summary":"The item describes a prominent lawyer missing from home, who drew money from his bank and is feared broken by overwork.","predicament":"Someone reads a description of a missing person and defends them without recognising themselves."},
{"chunk":299,"story":35,"summary":"He registers under the invented name and feels a wild sense of freedom, as if just born into the world.","predicament":"Someone cut loose from every obligation finds the feeling exhilarating rather than frightening."},
{"chunk":300,"story":35,"summary":"Days of theatres, cabarets and crowds teach him that the city's freedom is held inside unwritten rules.","predicament":"Someone tasting complete liberty discovers it is bounded by rules nobody states."},
{"chunk":301,"story":35,"summary":"A man greets him by his real name; he denies it coldly, calls the man a confidence trickster and moves hotels.","predicament":"Someone recognised by a stranger denies their own name and moves on."},
{"chunk":302,"story":35,"summary":"A handsome woman stops him in a restaurant, sure of him after fifteen years, and he tells her he has forgotten everything.","predicament":"Someone is claimed by a person from a past they cannot remember."},
{"chunk":303,"story":35,"summary":"She asks whether he has ever dared look at white roses since that night, and tells him blissfully that he lies.","predicament":"Someone denying their past is told, happily, by another that the denial is false."},
{"chunk":304,"story":35,"summary":"He repeats the invented name until she goes; that night a quiet man leads him to his wife and his physician.","predicament":"Someone holding to an invention is brought face to face with the people they left."},
{"chunk":305,"story":35,"summary":"The wife throws herself on him and begs him to say her name; he unwinds her arms and the doctor leads her out.","predicament":"Someone refuses to acknowledge the person who has been searching for them."},
{"chunk":306,"story":35,"summary":"The doctor explains his name, his profession and his illness; he answers coolly and admires his wife's hair.","predicament":"Someone is told who they are and treats it as a conversation about a stranger."},
{"chunk":307,"story":35,"summary":"He engages the doctor in confidence, throws the white roses out of the window, and says the cure may happen now.","predicament":"Someone ends a holiday from themselves deliberately, having never lost anything at all."},
{"chunk":308,"story":36,"summary":"The narrator disputes the claim that only certain cities can hold a story, and arrives in a quiet southern capital.","predicament":"Someone insists that the dull place everyone dismisses can hold anything."},
{"chunk":309,"story":36,"summary":"He arrives in the drizzle, is driven to a renovated hotel by an ancient vehicle, and finds the service slow and courteous.","predicament":"Someone arrives somewhere expecting nothing and finds nothing to contradict them."},
{"chunk":310,"story":36,"summary":"A waiter tells him nothing happens after sundown; he walks the streets and finds quiet houses and little else.","predicament":"Someone looks for life in a strange town and is told there is none."},
{"chunk":311,"story":36,"summary":"In the lobby he meets a red, pulpy loafer with a blabbing lip whom he recognises at once as a type he detests.","predicament":"Someone instantly dislikes a stranger who is determined to be their friend."},
{"chunk":312,"story":36,"summary":"The loafer apologises for spitting near him, and within four minutes has made a friend of him and dragged him to the bar.","predicament":"Someone is annexed as a friend by a person they cannot easily shake off."},
{"chunk":313,"story":36,"summary":"The loafer boasts of ancestry and of his wife's income, shows a handful of silver, and the clerk offers to eject him.","predicament":"Someone lives on money that plainly is not theirs, and boasts about it."},
{"chunk":314,"story":36,"summary":"He declines to complain, asks what the town offers a stranger, and explains his errand to sign a local contributor.","predicament":"Someone tolerates a nuisance rather than take a hand in getting rid of them."},
{"chunk":315,"story":36,"summary":"Next morning he meets an ancient hack driver in a remarkable old military coat, patched with twine where its braid had been.","predicament":"Someone keeps the ruins of a fine thing repaired with whatever comes to hand."},
{"chunk":316,"story":36,"summary":"The coat keeps one yellow horn button and is tied shut with string; the carriage is as old as the coat.","predicament":"Someone's whole means of earning is held together by makeshift repairs."},
{"chunk":317,"story":36,"summary":"He names the address; the driver first bars his way with suspicion, then presses him eagerly into the carriage.","predicament":"Someone asking to visit a household is questioned closely by the person guarding it."},
{"chunk":318,"story":36,"summary":"At the house the driver demands two dollars instead of fifty cents, insisting not that it is right but that he needs it.","predicament":"Someone overcharges a stranger and admits it, saying only that they must have the money."},
{"chunk":319,"story":36,"summary":"He pays with a torn and patched dollar, and is received in a bare, decayed mansion by a frail, white-haired lady.","predicament":"Someone of old family receives a visitor with dignity in a house stripped of everything."},
{"chunk":320,"story":36,"summary":"Charmed by her talk and seeing her poverty, he cannot speak of rates, and sets the business for the next afternoon.","predicament":"Someone sent to strike a hard bargain finds they cannot raise the subject."},
{"chunk":321,"story":36,"summary":"She answers his platitude about dull towns by saying it is in the still places that things happen.","predicament":"Someone quietly contradicts a visitor's certainty that nothing happens where they live."},
{"chunk":322,"story":36,"summary":"She lists cruelties she has seen near and far, then answers a knock at the back and returns brighter, offering tea.","predicament":"Someone shows that the quiet place is as cruel as anywhere, then goes to answer a knock."},
{"chunk":323,"story":36,"summary":"She sends a small servant out with that same torn dollar; a man's voice and a scuffle follow, and the tea is withdrawn.","predicament":"Someone's small store of money is taken from them by force in the next room."},
{"chunk":324,"story":36,"summary":"The driver says she will not starve, that she has resources; the visitor wires his magazine a lie to raise her rate.","predicament":"Someone lies to their employer to get a poor person paid more than they asked."},
{"chunk":325,"story":36,"summary":"That evening the loafer slaps down the same torn and patched dollar at the bar, and the visitor recognises it.","predicament":"Someone sees the money they gave away turn up in the hands of a wastrel."},
{"chunk":326,"story":36,"summary":"She faints after signing the contract; the doctor calls it starvation, and names her as the loafer's wife.","predicament":"Someone is starving inside a marriage that everyone around them can see."},
{"chunk":327,"story":36,"summary":"The doctor says the husband takes even what her old servant gives her; the visitor advances her fifty dollars anyway.","predicament":"Someone gives money to a person they know will be robbed of it."},
{"chunk":328,"story":36,"summary":"The driver's last horn button is gone; two hours later the loafer is found dead in a street after a violent struggle.","predicament":"A person everyone despised is found dead, and nobody can find a good word."},
{"chunk":329,"story":36,"summary":"The dead hand drops a yellow horn button; the visitor pockets it and, leaving town, throws it into the river.","predicament":"Someone finds proof of who killed a hated man and quietly destroys it."}
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{"chunk":330,"story":37,"summary":"From a rooftop the people below look like insects, and the watcher's mind expands to the immensity of the universe.","predicament":"Someone high above others finds it easy to think them insignificant."},
{"chunk":331,"story":37,"summary":"A candy-store clerk earning six dollars a week is courted by the man who keeps the smallest store in the city.","predicament":"Someone with nothing is courted by another with almost as little."},
{"chunk":332,"story":37,"summary":"She teases him daily about the size of his store, and lives herself in a room barely wider than her arms.","predicament":"Someone mocks another's smallness while living no larger themselves."},
{"chunk":333,"story":37,"summary":"A second suitor arrives at her boarding house, stuffed with facts and figures which he uses to dominate any table.","predicament":"Someone courts another by displaying knowledge instead of affection."},
{"chunk":334,"story":37,"summary":"The pair stop at the little store for chewing gum before going up to see the view, and she teases him again.","predicament":"Someone is shown their rival in front of them, and makes a joke of it."},
{"chunk":335,"story":37,"summary":"On the roof the philosopher calls the people below crawling insects; she says they are folks and asks to go down.","predicament":"Someone is shown a grand view and finds the people in it more real than the view."},
{"chunk":336,"story":37,"summary":"He presses on about the smallness of human affairs and the distance of the stars; she says she is afraid up here.","predicament":"Someone tries to impress another by making everything they care about seem small."},
{"chunk":337,"story":37,"summary":"A meteor blazes over the roof; she screams, demands to be taken down, and vanishes outside the door below.","predicament":"Someone's display of grandeur frightens off the person it was meant to win."},
{"chunk":338,"story":38,"summary":"A street runs north through grandeur and antique shops into a mediaeval gloom before diving into a tunnel.","predicament":"A place holds the leavings of grander lives and is passed through by everyone."},
{"chunk":339,"story":38,"summary":"A restaurant keeper of half-noble descent works by day and walks the city by night in search of mysteries.","predicament":"Someone of small means gives themselves the role of a great benefactor."},
{"chunk":340,"story":38,"summary":"He carries cards good for meals at his own place, and finds a melancholy young man flinging silver into the street.","predicament":"Someone whose only wealth is what they can give away goes looking for someone to help."},
{"chunk":341,"story":38,"summary":"He takes the young man's arm and leads him to a park bench to learn what drives him to such waste.","predicament":"Someone sees another destroying what they have and stops them to ask why."},
{"chunk":342,"story":38,"summary":"He explains that he studies people and seeks to relieve distress in city streets, and invites the young man's confidence.","predicament":"Someone offers help in grand terms to a stranger who has not asked for it."},
{"chunk":343,"story":38,"summary":"The young man works in a harness shop; the owner's daughter will go to whichever man answers his riddle first.","predicament":"Someone's chance at marriage is made to depend on a foolish test set by another."},
{"chunk":344,"story":38,"summary":"The riddle is what kind of hen lays the longest, and the young man asks the would-be benefactor to answer it.","predicament":"Someone's whole future turns on a trivial question they cannot answer."},
{"chunk":345,"story":38,"summary":"The benefactor cannot solve it and, humiliated, presses one of his meal cards on the young man as they part.","predicament":"Someone who promised to help anyone finds they cannot, and gives what they have."},
{"chunk":346,"story":38,"summary":"Next morning the rival fails; reading the card in his pocket, the young man answers a dead one and wins the party.","predicament":"Someone's answer comes by accident from the help that seemed to be worthless."},
{"chunk":347,"story":39,"summary":"A rich child of five loses the cheap rag-doll she loves, and the whole household cannot find it.","predicament":"Someone grieves for a worthless thing that all their family's money cannot replace."},
{"chunk":348,"story":39,"summary":"Expensive toys and doctors fail to console her; parents and servants are helpless as the season comes on.","predicament":"Someone's money buys every substitute and none of them is the thing wanted."},
{"chunk":349,"story":39,"summary":"The terrier had buried the doll in a corner of the lawn; meanwhile a decently drunk tramp walks the neighbouring street.","predicament":"The thing everyone is hunting lies in plain reach of a passing stranger."},
{"chunk":350,"story":39,"summary":"The tramp digs out the doll, takes it into a saloon and earns drinks by addressing it as his lady friend.","predicament":"Someone with nothing finds a prop that earns them attention and drink."},
{"chunk":351,"story":39,"summary":"Three local toughs read of a hundred-dollar reward for the doll, and one offers the tramp fifty cents for it.","predicament":"Someone holding something valuable is offered a pittance by people who know its worth."},
{"chunk":352,"story":39,"summary":"The tramp laughs and refuses, saying money cannot buy her; he is drunk on his first success as a performer.","predicament":"Someone refuses a good price because what they hold has given them something better."},
{"chunk":353,"story":39,"summary":"The toughs show him the advertisement; he agrees to claim the reward, and they follow him armed to the gate.","predicament":"Someone is helped toward a prize by people who mean to take it from them."},
{"chunk":354,"story":39,"summary":"He rings, the doll is restored, and the child screams hatred at the ragged man who brought her treasure back.","predicament":"Someone's one good act is received with disgust by the person it was for."},
{"chunk":355,"story":39,"summary":"A secretary counts him a hundred dollars and has him shown out, while the three wait beyond the gate.","predicament":"Someone receives what they came for and is walked toward the people waiting to take it."},
{"chunk":356,"story":39,"summary":"At the door the holly and the harp music stir old memories, and he insists on paying his compliments to the lady.","predicament":"Someone far fallen is reminded of the manners of the life they came from."},
{"chunk":357,"story":39,"summary":"The lady receives him, wine is brought, and he begins the old family salutation before his memory fails.","predicament":"Someone tries to perform a courtesy from a past they can no longer fully recall."},
{"chunk":358,"story":39,"summary":"As he is shown out she orders the motor car brought round to take him wherever he wishes to go.","predicament":"Someone is saved from waiting danger by a kindness that was never meant as rescue."},
{"chunk":359,"story":40,"summary":"The city swarms with rich men in search of people to relieve, and the poor hide from their attentions.","predicament":"People with more than they need hunt for someone to receive their generosity."},
{"chunk":360,"story":40,"summary":"A retired magnate declares that squaring one old ten thousand dollars would do the trick; he rose from a breaker boy.","predicament":"Someone rich decides one specific old debt is what stands between them and peace."},
{"chunk":361,"story":40,"summary":"Rich beyond counting, he builds a palace and begins to worry about his soul's salvation.","predicament":"Someone with more money than they can use starts worrying about how they got it."},
{"chunk":362,"story":40,"summary":"His million to a charity is misreported and his laboratory gift is built as a lavatory, and he is given a degree.","predicament":"Someone's large gifts go astray and bring them no credit at all."},
{"chunk":363,"story":40,"summary":"Overhearing professors mock him, he wearies of giving on a large scale and decides to see gratitude himself.","predicament":"Someone giving generously overhears what the receivers really think of them."},
{"chunk":364,"story":40,"summary":"A district boss corners him and says the poor there belong to him, and warns him to keep to his own part of town.","predicament":"Someone offering charity is told the people they meant to help are already spoken for."},
{"chunk":365,"story":40,"summary":"He doubles his donations, buys a young woman a stage part, and still finds no relief; his sister and daughter keep his house.","predicament":"Someone tries every way of giving money away and none of it eases them."},
{"chunk":366,"story":40,"summary":"The daughter, plain, loud and healthy, looks out of a window and gives her heart to the grocer's young man.","predicament":"Someone with every advantage falls for a person who has not noticed them."},
{"chunk":367,"story":40,"summary":"She watches the confident young driver three days running and then consults the housemaid who is her friend.","predicament":"Someone plans an approach to a person they have only watched from a window."},
{"chunk":368,"story":40,"summary":"She borrows a cap and apron, passes as a maid, and he stops for her whistling and gives his name.","predicament":"Someone conceals their wealth to be liked for something other than money."},
{"chunk":369,"story":40,"summary":"They whistle duets and he talks of sixteen dollars a week and flats, while she never counts on her father's money.","predicament":"Two people plan a life on wages one of them could cover in an afternoon."},
{"chunk":370,"story":40,"summary":"Raised to eighteen a week, he tells her to untie the apron strings, and they count up what she can do.","predicament":"Two people persuade themselves that a small wage is enough to marry on."},
{"chunk":371,"story":40,"summary":"The old debt was a hillside bought for a trifle from a miner and sold a month later for ten thousand.","predicament":"Someone's fortune began with a bargain that ruined the person who sold it."},
{"chunk":372,"story":40,"summary":"Detectives trace the heir to the grocer's man; the magnate pays him the ten thousand as another man's agent.","predicament":"Someone makes restitution while hiding that they were the one who took it."},
{"chunk":373,"story":40,"summary":"Invited to call and meet the daughter, the young man says he is engaged to a parlour maid and must deliver his goods.","predicament":"Someone refuses an opening into a higher life because they are already promised."},
{"chunk":374,"story":40,"summary":"She confesses she is the heiress; he says her father will refuse, and she says she will marry him tonight.","predicament":"Someone confesses the fortune they hid, and proposes to act before it can matter."},
{"chunk":375,"story":40,"summary":"The father's car runs the cab down; two years later he refuses every charity and cuts salaries to save money.","predicament":"Someone who gave money away freely stops the moment they have an heir."},
{"chunk":376,"story":40,"summary":"He shows the mark his grandson's new tooth made, and raises the price of vinegar three cents instead of two.","predicament":"Someone's new devotion to one person makes them harder on everyone else."}
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{"chunk":377,"story":41,"summary":"A young woman works the cashier's cage at a crowded downtown restaurant, taking money through an arch in a brass screen.","predicament":"Someone works where everyone must pass them and pay."},
{"chunk":378,"story":41,"summary":"She counts change, deflects proposals and rates every customer at once, and every man who pays adores her.","predicament":"Someone's position makes them the object of everyone's flattery all day long."},
{"chunk":379,"story":41,"summary":"The young men trade compliments and hints of presents, and one broker proposes to her more often than he eats.","predicament":"Someone receives offers so constantly that none of them can be taken seriously."},
{"chunk":380,"story":41,"summary":"Her talk runs on in one stream of sums, refusals, appointments and rebukes as the queue pays and passes.","predicament":"Someone handles money and flattery in the same breath, all day, by pure habit."},
{"chunk":381,"story":41,"summary":"An old banker collapses outside, is carried in, and he and his wife take to the beautiful cashier who tended him.","predicament":"Someone's kindness in an emergency wins them the notice of people far above them."},
{"chunk":382,"story":41,"summary":"She resigns to be adopted, saying she will miss the cage, and money is poured out to polish her.","predicament":"Someone leaves the only work they know for a life that must be taught to them."},
{"chunk":383,"story":41,"summary":"At a charity bazaar an earl approaches her booth's brass wicket; she answers him as a cashier would, and faints.","predicament":"Someone's old habit answers for them at the moment their new life is decided."},
{"chunk":384,"story":42,"summary":"A magazine editor, content with his life, wanders into a small park on a spring afternoon.","predicament":"Someone comfortable and well pleased with themselves takes a walk."},
{"chunk":385,"story":42,"summary":"Pleased by his sales, his salary and his wife's new devotion to singing, he is caught by the sleeve by a shabby acquaintance.","predicament":"Someone at their most satisfied is stopped in the street by a friend who has failed."},
{"chunk":386,"story":42,"summary":"The shabby man is a fiction writer ruined by a loss, whose stories the editor returns with careful letters of explanation.","predicament":"Someone poor keeps submitting work to a prosperous friend who keeps refusing it."},
{"chunk":387,"story":42,"summary":"On a park bench the writer calls it his office and insists he will force the magazines to admit his work is good.","predicament":"Someone with nothing left insists that the people rejecting them are wrong."},
{"chunk":388,"story":42,"summary":"The editor praises the plot and style, then says he spoils every climax with flat and drab strokes.","predicament":"Someone is told the exact thing they believe in is what ruins their work."},
{"chunk":389,"story":42,"summary":"They argue whether a mother whose child is taken speaks in grand words or in her ordinary muddled ones.","predicament":"Two people argue about how a person really behaves at the worst moment of their life."},
{"chunk":390,"story":42,"summary":"The editor holds that deep emotion calls out a fitting and elevated expression, learned from the stage and from life.","predicament":"Someone defends a theory about others' feelings that neither of them has tested."},
{"chunk":391,"story":42,"summary":"The writer quotes his own banal lines, and asks whether the editor would buy the story if it were proved true to life.","predicament":"Someone asks whether proof would change the mind that has judged them."},
{"chunk":392,"story":42,"summary":"The writer proposes to prove it from life with his own wife, saying he is down to his last dollar.","predicament":"Someone desperate offers to test a theory on the person closest to them."},
{"chunk":393,"story":42,"summary":"The scheme is a false note saying he has run off; the editor calls it cruel and the writer presses him.","predicament":"Someone proposes to wound another to win an argument, and calls it harmless."},
{"chunk":394,"story":42,"summary":"They climb to the bare flat, where he finds a note his wife left that morning and reads it aloud.","predicament":"Someone setting a trap finds the real thing has already been sprung on them."},
{"chunk":395,"story":42,"summary":"The wives have gone on the road together; the writer declaims in grand style and the editor blurts out slang.","predicament":"Two people are struck by the same blow and each answers it in the other's manner."},
{"chunk":396,"story":43,"summary":"Two rival gangs observe strict politeness in a saloon while each watches the other in the mirror.","predicament":"People bound by a feud share a room and keep their manners until they cannot."},
{"chunk":397,"story":43,"summary":"The etiquette breaks, one man is knifed in the dark, and the wounded man refuses to name who did it.","predicament":"Someone injured refuses to name their attacker, meaning to settle it themselves."},
{"chunk":398,"story":43,"summary":"The saloon keeper has told the police, so the knifer must stay hidden until the fixer returns from abroad.","predicament":"Someone must stay out of sight until the one person who can protect them returns."},
{"chunk":399,"story":43,"summary":"A week of hiding becomes unbearable and he goes to an unfamiliar late resort where nobody knows him.","predicament":"Someone in hiding risks one night out where they hope not to be recognised."},
{"chunk":400,"story":43,"summary":"The resort's distinction is that women may smoke there, which makes its proprietor twenty years ahead of his time.","predicament":"A place draws people by permitting what everywhere else forbids."},
{"chunk":401,"story":43,"summary":"A girl comes in alone, sits opposite him, lights a cigarette and smiles at him, and both are done for.","predicament":"Two strangers decide about each other in the space of a single look."},
{"chunk":402,"story":43,"summary":"Each at once begins to pretend; she explains her cigarette by an aunt, and he tells her to stop it.","predicament":"Two people who have just met begin immediately to improve their own histories."},
{"chunk":403,"story":43,"summary":"She gives a fine name, says she binds books and works overtime, and only came in for a smoke.","predicament":"Someone explains their presence somewhere improper as innocently as they can."},
{"chunk":404,"story":43,"summary":"He offers to walk her home and invents a rich father and a seat on the exchange to recommend himself.","predicament":"Someone invents a grand family to make themselves acceptable to a person they like."},
{"chunk":405,"story":43,"summary":"At one the doors are locked and the drinks become illegal, which sweetens everything in the room.","predicament":"People value an ordinary pleasure more once it is forbidden."},
{"chunk":406,"story":43,"summary":"He asks whether her story was true, believes her, and asks her to be his steady girl.","predicament":"Someone asks the person they want for a plain account of who they are."},
{"chunk":407,"story":43,"summary":"They arrange a visit on Thursday; then blows fall on the street door and the lights go out.","predicament":"Two people making plans are interrupted by the thing one of them was hiding from."},
{"chunk":408,"story":43,"summary":"The guests escape by a ladder; she stops to ask again whether he really likes her, and they are left behind.","predicament":"Someone loses their chance to escape by stopping to ask for reassurance."},
{"chunk":409,"story":43,"summary":"A policeman finds the two, takes off his hat, names him as the man who knifed another, and orders him along.","predicament":"Someone in hiding is recognised by an officer who means to take them in."},
{"chunk":410,"story":43,"summary":"She hurls herself at the officer, claims the man as hers, throws money on the table and names the bribe he takes.","predicament":"Someone saves another by revealing exactly what they are and what the officer is."},
{"chunk":411,"story":43,"summary":"Outside he hands the money back; she says he will not want to see her, and tells him what she had hoped to be.","predicament":"Someone gives up the person they wanted rather than be taken for what they are."},
{"chunk":412,"story":43,"summary":"He confesses his own lies, takes her two blocks to a clergyman's door and rings the bell.","predicament":"Someone answers another's confession by marrying them on the spot."},
{"chunk":413,"story":44,"summary":"The essay distinguishes fortune, adventure and chance, and names the venturer as one who watches the roadside.","predicament":"Someone travelling toward a goal cares more for what lies beside the road."},
{"chunk":414,"story":44,"summary":"A clubman walks out on a familiar story, craving a turn of events whose ending he cannot already foresee.","predicament":"Someone knows the end of every road available to them and wants one they do not."},
{"chunk":415,"story":44,"summary":"He wanders an hour, declines his favourite hotel as no venture, and decides to dine somewhere doubtful instead.","predicament":"Someone deliberately chooses discomfort in the hope of being surprised."},
{"chunk":416,"story":44,"summary":"He finds not a penny in thirteen pockets, and a stranger nearby admits he has just done the same.","predicament":"Someone with money in the bank and none in their pocket meets another in the same case."},
{"chunk":417,"story":44,"summary":"The stranger proposes they dine expensively and match his two pennies to see who faces the bill.","predicament":"Two strangers agree to run a risk together for the sake of the outcome."},
{"chunk":418,"story":44,"summary":"The stranger explains he seeks adventures whose conclusion he cannot predict, and would bet without seeing his hand.","predicament":"Someone wants to act without being able to guess what will follow."},
{"chunk":419,"story":44,"summary":"He says civilisation has posted signboards on every path, and that even ruin now has a known address.","predicament":"Someone complains that every risk available to them has a predictable end."},
{"chunk":420,"story":44,"summary":"His most promising premise, a veiled lady's note in a bazaar, ended with a journalist wanting newspaper work.","predicament":"Someone's most mysterious opening turned out to have an ordinary explanation."},
{"chunk":421,"story":44,"summary":"Rapids, cards and strange doorbells all end conventionally; the only certain thing is that nothing is uncertain.","predicament":"Someone has tried every risk they can think of and found each one predictable."},
{"chunk":422,"story":44,"summary":"The clubman loses the toss and proposes the other slip away while he holds the check and faces the outcome.","predicament":"Someone loses a wager and arranges for the winner to escape the consequence."},
{"chunk":423,"story":44,"summary":"He signs the check, confessing he dines there weekly; the other confesses he owns the hotel.","predicament":"Two people risking everything discover neither was risking anything at all."},
{"chunk":424,"story":44,"summary":"The clubman says he is engaged, loves the lady, and dreads the certainty of everything that will follow.","predicament":"Someone loves a person and fears the life with them for being entirely foreseeable."},
{"chunk":425,"story":44,"summary":"The hotel owner calls at an unchanging old house and is met warmly by a young woman he has known for years.","predicament":"Someone returns after years to a person and a house that have not changed at all."},
{"chunk":426,"story":44,"summary":"She recalls that he never would play a game with rules, and tells him plainly he could have had her.","predicament":"Someone is told by another that the thing they wanted was always available."},
{"chunk":427,"story":44,"summary":"He reflects that she and the house offer no surprises; she says she is going to be married soon.","predicament":"Someone left a person for being predictable and finds they are about to be lost."},
{"chunk":428,"story":44,"summary":"The clubman sails to escape certainty; the other says he has found the real hazard, having married her yesterday.","predicament":"Someone finds the greatest uncertainty in the very commitment another is fleeing."}
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{"chunk":429,"story":45,"summary":"Everyone arriving in the city must fight it at once, with no rounds and no rest, until one of them wins.","predicament":"Everyone who arrives in a new place must contend with it from the first day."},
{"chunk":430,"story":45,"summary":"The newcomer must become part of the place or its enemy; two friends from the West arrive together to make their fortunes.","predicament":"Two friends arrive somewhere new, each meaning not to be changed by it."},
{"chunk":431,"story":45,"summary":"Four years on, the businessman bustles in to lunch and the artist tells him the city has swallowed and stamped him.","predicament":"Someone tells an old friend that the place has remade them into everyone else."},
{"chunk":432,"story":45,"summary":"The businessman shrugs it off, says the place is good enough for him and that it is giving him his share.","predicament":"Someone accused of being changed answers that the change has paid them well."},
{"chunk":433,"story":45,"summary":"He lists his eight thousand a year, his introductions, his motor rides and his shows, and asks what the objection is.","predicament":"Someone measures their life by what it buys and cannot see what is meant."},
{"chunk":434,"story":45,"summary":"The artist calls the place a leech and a monster, swears it will never take him, and longs for the country he left.","predicament":"Someone declares they will never be changed by what has already changed their friend."},
{"chunk":435,"story":45,"summary":"At midnight the artist looks out at the lights, and answers a telegram offering him what he wanted with a refusal.","predicament":"Someone who swore they were unconquered refuses the chance to leave."},
{"chunk":436,"story":46,"summary":"A very rich old man, tired of everything money buys, decides to go about the city looking for something new.","predicament":"Someone who can buy anything wants something they cannot pay for."},
{"chunk":437,"story":46,"summary":"He dresses plainly and sets out to find someone in trouble to help; across town a young workman leaves his job.","predicament":"Someone sets out to do good to a stranger they have not yet chosen."},
{"chunk":438,"story":46,"summary":"A hat cleaner stands at a machine all day for twelve dollars a week, his feet burning and smarting.","predicament":"Someone works long hours in pain for wages that only just keep them."},
{"chunk":439,"story":46,"summary":"His happiness is cool metal against his burning feet and a sea story; he stops at a second-hand bookstall.","predicament":"Someone has found exactly the small comfort that makes their day bearable."},
{"chunk":440,"story":46,"summary":"The rich man offers to pay for his education, his travels abroad and a business of his own choosing.","predicament":"Someone is offered everything they never asked for by a stranger in the street."},
{"chunk":441,"story":46,"summary":"The young man takes him for a swindler and tells him to be off before something happens to him.","predicament":"Someone offered an impossible gift assumes a trick and refuses it rudely."},
{"chunk":442,"story":46,"summary":"They fight, are jailed, and in his cell the young man puts his feet on the cold bars and finds a sea story.","predicament":"Someone locked up finds by accident the exact comfort they most wanted."},
{"chunk":443,"story":47,"summary":"A man whose sweetheart vanished on her way from Ireland is taken to the seaside, and stops at a palmist's stall.","predicament":"Someone whose promised person has vanished looks for an answer anywhere."},
{"chunk":444,"story":47,"summary":"The palmist foretells trouble from a dark man and a fair woman, a voyage, a loss, and luck from a crooked-nosed man.","predicament":"Someone in trouble is given a list of signs to watch for and believes it."},
{"chunk":445,"story":47,"summary":"Leaving, he is burned by a stranger's cigar, loses his change in the scuffle, and his hat blows overboard.","predicament":"Someone's run of small disasters begins as soon as they are warned of it."},
{"chunk":446,"story":47,"summary":"He counts each mishap as a prophecy fulfilled and insists the reading is coming true before their eyes.","predicament":"Someone fits every ordinary misfortune to the prediction they were given."},
{"chunk":447,"story":47,"summary":"They find a long man with a twice-twisted nose and demand his name, testing it against the letters foretold.","predicament":"Someone stops a stranger in the street because they match a promised description."},
{"chunk":448,"story":47,"summary":"The stranger asks their excuse for being at large, is given it, and tries to walk away from the pair.","predicament":"Someone tries to escape two strangers who believe they owe them a fortune."},
{"chunk":449,"story":47,"summary":"One of them declares he will sit at the stranger's door till morning, since all their luck depends on him.","predicament":"Someone attaches themselves to a stranger they have decided their fortune rests on."},
{"chunk":450,"story":47,"summary":"The friend explains the palmist's reading and says it strains friendship to stand by a born fool.","predicament":"Someone stays loyal to a friend whose belief they think is nonsense."},
{"chunk":451,"story":47,"summary":"The stranger laughs, takes them for drinks, and explains he walks at night collecting oddities for a book.","predicament":"Someone who collects other people's strangeness is delighted to be taken for a sign."},
{"chunk":452,"story":47,"summary":"The believer grows angry that the promised luck has produced nothing but talk, and drinks with red in his eye.","predicament":"Someone's promised good fortune produces only conversation, and they resent it."},
{"chunk":453,"story":47,"summary":"He invites them down to his basement for cold fowl, and mentions the green girl in his kitchen by name.","predicament":"Someone hears, in passing, the name of the person they had given up for lost."},
{"chunk":454,"story":48,"summary":"A wife has one dollar and eighty-seven cents saved for a Christmas present, in a flat whose rent eats the wages.","predicament":"Someone has saved for months and still cannot afford the gift they intend."},
{"chunk":455,"story":48,"summary":"She cries, then stands before the glass, lets her hair fall its full length, and her face goes pale.","predicament":"Someone out of money considers the one thing of value they still own."},
{"chunk":456,"story":48,"summary":"The household's two treasures are his inherited watch and her hair; she sells the hair for twenty dollars.","predicament":"Someone sells the one thing they were proud of to buy another a gift."},
{"chunk":457,"story":48,"summary":"She buys a plain chain worthy of the watch, curls what is left of her hair, and waits for him.","predicament":"Someone spends everything on a gift and then fears how they will be seen."},
{"chunk":458,"story":48,"summary":"He stops inside the door with an unreadable look; she begs him not to mind and explains what she did.","predicament":"Someone confesses a sacrifice and cannot read the face of the person it was for."},
{"chunk":459,"story":48,"summary":"He wakes from his trance, holds her, and tells her to unwrap the package to see what startled him.","predicament":"Someone reassures another and then hands over the gift that will explain everything."},
{"chunk":460,"story":48,"summary":"The gift is the set of combs she longed for; then he says he sold the watch to buy them.","predicament":"Two people each sold their treasure to buy the other what now cannot be used."},
{"chunk":461,"story":48,"summary":"Of all who give gifts, the narrator says, these two who sacrificed their greatest treasures were the wisest.","predicament":"Two people give away what they cannot spare and are counted wise for it."},
{"chunk":462,"story":49,"summary":"At midnight in a crowded cafe a stranger takes the vacant chair, and the narrator hopes for a true citizen of the world.","predicament":"Someone hoping to find a rare kind of person sits waiting to be joined."},
{"chunk":463,"story":49,"summary":"The stranger talks of every country as familiarly as a garden, impartial to cities, continents and zones alike.","predicament":"Someone claims every place as home and none as theirs in particular."},
{"chunk":464,"story":49,"summary":"Against the poet's claim that men cling to their birthplace, this man seems free of it; then the band plays a southern air.","predicament":"Someone appears to have escaped the loyalty that everyone else is bound by."},
{"chunk":465,"story":49,"summary":"A young man leaps up cheering the tune and joins the table; the narrator starts to ask where he is from.","predicament":"Someone tests a theory by asking a stranger where they come from."},
{"chunk":466,"story":49,"summary":"The traveller bangs the table: a man should not be judged by his post-office address, nor labelled by a section.","predicament":"Someone insists it should not matter where anybody comes from."},
{"chunk":467,"story":49,"summary":"He lists rooms and slippers waiting in a dozen countries, and calls pride in one's birthplace a relic.","predicament":"Someone argues that attachment to a birthplace is a weakness to be outgrown."},
{"chunk":468,"story":49,"summary":"He denies having any spot he thinks of, calls himself a citizen of the sphere, and goes off through the crowd.","predicament":"Someone denies having any attachment at all, and takes their leave."},
{"chunk":469,"story":49,"summary":"A brawl breaks out: the man is fighting someone who slighted the sidewalks of the small town he came from.","predicament":"Someone who denied caring where they came from fights the first person to insult it."}
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{"chunk":470,"story":50,"summary":"A wife waits with cooling supper, and greets her husband with a complaint that he apologises to strangers but never to her.","predicament":"Someone waiting at home resents the courtesy another spends on everyone else."},
{"chunk":471,"story":50,"summary":"He answers with an insult, and she hurls the supper at him; the two throw the dishes course by course.","predicament":"Two people settle a grievance by throwing what they have at each other."},
{"chunk":472,"story":50,"summary":"The duel escalates to the wash basin, and a scream downstairs halts them; the policeman outside decides not to interfere.","predicament":"Two people's regular quarrel is left alone by everyone who hears it."},
{"chunk":473,"story":50,"summary":"The landlady's small boy is lost; the boarders exclaim, pair off, and one sets out to scour the city for him.","predicament":"A child's disappearance gives everyone around a reason to act on their own account."},
{"chunk":474,"story":50,"summary":"She cannot say when she last saw him; the news of a straying child moves everyone who hears it.","predicament":"Someone raises an alarm without being able to say when the trouble began."},
{"chunk":475,"story":50,"summary":"At the window the couple speak of the son they never had, quarrel gently over his name, and she apologises.","predicament":"Two people at war soften when another's loss makes them imagine their own."},
{"chunk":476,"story":50,"summary":"They sit arm in arm watching the search, until word comes that the boy was asleep under a bed all along.","predicament":"Two people are brought together by an emergency that turns out to be nothing."},
{"chunk":477,"story":50,"summary":"He mocks the name she chose, the crockery flies again, and the policeman times the quarrel by his watch.","predicament":"Two people's peace lasts only until one of them makes a joke of it."},
{"chunk":478,"story":51,"summary":"A landlady shows each room in descending order of price, scorning anyone who confesses they need something cheaper.","predicament":"Someone looking for lodging is judged by how little they can pay."},
{"chunk":479,"story":51,"summary":"The cheapest room is a coffin-sized space with a skylight; a very small young woman comes hunting a room.","predicament":"Someone can afford only a space barely big enough to lie down in."},
{"chunk":480,"story":51,"summary":"She takes it at two dollars, copies papers at night, and is gay-hearted enough to hear out a lodger's play.","predicament":"Someone living in the poorest room keeps everyone around them cheerful."},
{"chunk":481,"story":51,"summary":"The men gather round her on the stoop while two other women sniff; three of them privately court her.","predicament":"Someone popular with everyone is resented by those who are not."},
{"chunk":482,"story":51,"summary":"She points out the steady blue star she can see through her skylight and says she has named it herself.","predicament":"Someone shut in a dark place gives a private name to the one thing they can see."},
{"chunk":483,"story":51,"summary":"Work fails; she goes hungry from office to office, refuses a proposal in the hall, and crawls up to her room.","predicament":"Someone out of work refuses the offer that would feed them and climbs the stairs alone."},
{"chunk":484,"story":51,"summary":"She blows a kiss to the star and says goodbye; next morning the door is forced and an ambulance is called.","predicament":"Someone at the end of their strength says farewell to the only thing that kept them company."},
{"chunk":485,"story":51,"summary":"The doctor carries her out like his own dead; the paper names him William Jackson, and says she will recover.","predicament":"Someone is carried out by a stranger who bears the name they invented in the dark."},
{"chunk":486,"story":52,"summary":"Two art students from small towns meet, marry, and set up in a small flat with their studies and each other.","predicament":"Two people with talent and little money marry and live on their studies."},
{"chunk":487,"story":52,"summary":"They are happy while the money lasts, each studying under an expensive master toward a clear ambition.","predicament":"Two people spend what they have on training toward futures they cannot yet reach."},
{"chunk":488,"story":52,"summary":"When the money fails she says she has found a pupil in a splendid house at five dollars a lesson.","predicament":"Someone announces they have found work so that the other need not stop studying."},
{"chunk":489,"story":52,"summary":"He protests at her working while he studies; she insists, and from then on both leave the house early.","predicament":"Someone lets another carry the household so that their own work can continue."},
{"chunk":490,"story":52,"summary":"She brings home fifteen dollars with stories of the household; he lays down eighteen from a sketch sold to a stranger.","predicament":"Two people each produce money and an account of where it came from."},
{"chunk":491,"story":52,"summary":"She comes home with a bandaged hand and a story about spilled rarebit; he asks quietly what time it happened.","predicament":"Someone hides an injury behind a story and is asked one question too many."},
{"chunk":492,"story":52,"summary":"She confesses she has been ironing in a laundry; he confesses he has been firing its engine for two weeks.","predicament":"Two people each hid the same humble work from the other to protect them."},
{"chunk":493,"story":53,"summary":"At a weekly club dance, a plain young woman always goes escorted by her friend and her friend's fellow.","predicament":"Someone without a partner attends only on the charity of a friend."},
{"chunk":494,"story":53,"summary":"She tells her friend not to call for her: she has a gentleman friend of her own coming to escort her.","predicament":"Someone who has always been pitied announces they no longer need the favour."},
{"chunk":495,"story":53,"summary":"The escort proves tall, dark-curled and graceful, quite unlike the club's muscular young men, and she leads him round proudly.","predicament":"Someone arrives with a companion who plainly outshines everyone in the room."},
{"chunk":496,"story":53,"summary":"Her evening is a triumph, but he takes the honours, and waltzes twice with the leader's own partner.","predicament":"Someone's guest wins the room and then offends the one person who matters."},
{"chunk":497,"story":53,"summary":"The club's leader, told the visitor is unknown to the district's chief, stops him on the floor and asks where he lives.","predicament":"Someone in charge questions a stranger nobody can vouch for."},
{"chunk":498,"story":53,"summary":"Neither will yield; the leader demands proof of the visitor's name and then insults him outright.","predicament":"Two people who cannot share a room force the question of who belongs."},
{"chunk":499,"story":53,"summary":"The board conducts the visitor to the back room where quarrels are settled, and word reaches her of it.","predicament":"Someone's companion is quietly taken away to be dealt with by the others."},
{"chunk":500,"story":53,"summary":"She bursts in and snatches the long knife from her escort's raised arm before it can be used.","predicament":"Someone stops the person they brought from doing what cannot be forgiven."},
{"chunk":501,"story":53,"summary":"She confesses she dressed him in a false name to have an escort at last; the leader offers to take her next week.","predicament":"Someone confesses the pretence that got them noticed, and is taken seriously at last."},
{"chunk":502,"story":54,"summary":"A man in search of answers sets out to learn what exactly is meant by the type called a man about town.","predicament":"Someone will not let a vague description rest until they can picture it."},
{"chunk":503,"story":54,"summary":"A reporter gives a loose account of the type, and the seeker walks the bright street ignoring everyone else.","predicament":"Someone looking for one particular kind of person passes all the others by."},
{"chunk":504,"story":54,"summary":"He asks a barman, who answers in slang, then stops a collector on the sidewalk with the same question.","predicament":"Someone asks everyone they meet the same question and gets a different answer."},
{"chunk":505,"story":54,"summary":"A critic defines the type as a man sick with wanting to see and know, who pokes into every new place.","predicament":"Someone hears their quarry described as pure curiosity and impudence."},
{"chunk":506,"story":54,"summary":"The critic warms to his portrait; the seeker begs to be shown a real specimen rather than a description.","predicament":"Someone given a perfect description insists on meeting the thing itself."},
{"chunk":507,"story":54,"summary":"He refuses dinner to keep hunting, is knocked down crossing the street, and the paper calls him a typical specimen.","predicament":"Someone searching everywhere for a type is finally identified as one themselves."},
{"chunk":508,"story":55,"summary":"Winter is coming and the park sleeper decides his plan: three months of board and lodging on the island prison.","predicament":"Someone with nowhere to go for the winter decides prison is the best available."},
{"chunk":509,"story":55,"summary":"He prefers the law to charity, which exacts humiliation, and resolves to dine well and then declare he cannot pay.","predicament":"Someone refuses charity because of what it costs them, and plans a crime instead."},
{"chunk":510,"story":55,"summary":"At the glittering restaurant door the head waiter sees his shoes and trousers and he is turned out at once.","predicament":"Someone is refused entry before they can commit the offence they came to commit."},
{"chunk":511,"story":55,"summary":"He breaks a window and waits, but the officer will not believe him; he then eats where the food is cheap.","predicament":"Someone confesses to an act and is not believed because nobody behaves that way."},
{"chunk":512,"story":55,"summary":"The waiters pitch him onto the pavement; he next tries insulting a young woman in front of a policeman.","predicament":"Someone tries a worse offence after the first attempt fails to get attention."},
{"chunk":513,"story":55,"summary":"The young woman takes his arm gladly; he shakes her off, then howls and dances and is excused as a student.","predicament":"Someone behaves as badly as they can and every attempt is taken kindly."},
{"chunk":514,"story":55,"summary":"He takes another man's umbrella openly, and the owner apologises and gives it up rather than call the officer.","predicament":"Someone steals in plain sight and the person robbed gives way to them."},
{"chunk":515,"story":55,"summary":"At an old church the organ anthem holds him, and he sees with horror what his days have become.","predicament":"Someone hears music from an earlier life and sees clearly what they have become."},
{"chunk":516,"story":55,"summary":"He resolves to find work and be somebody; a hand falls on his arm, and the magistrate gives him three months.","predicament":"Someone decides to change their life and is punished the instant they do."}
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{"chunk":517,"story":56,"summary":"Three penniless friends eat on credit at a cheap restaurant whose owner lets them pay or not as they can.","predicament":"People with no money eat where the owner tolerates their unpaid scores."},
{"chunk":518,"story":56,"summary":"The restaurant's waitress is a magnificent figure who seems to belong entirely to the place she serves in.","predicament":"Someone fits their place so perfectly that others cannot imagine them elsewhere."},
{"chunk":519,"story":56,"summary":"She mothers and overfeeds them for nothing; one of them says a fate hangs over her that would take her away.","predicament":"People fear that the person who feeds them will be taken away by better fortune."},
{"chunk":520,"story":56,"summary":"The prediction is a rich timberman who will marry her and remove her from the place where she belongs.","predicament":"People dread the good fortune that would take a friend out of their reach."},
{"chunk":521,"story":56,"summary":"A bearded miner arrives boasting of two millions, and is struck dumb the moment the waitress looms up with his order.","predicament":"A newly rich stranger is instantly taken with the person others depend on."},
{"chunk":522,"story":56,"summary":"The three rush him out to drink, goad him into paying for everything, and have him carted to a distant hotel.","predicament":"People remove a rival by spending his own money until he is helpless."},
{"chunk":523,"story":56,"summary":"Three years later the painter's picture of her sells for five thousand, and he admits his motive was not only theory.","predicament":"Someone's high-minded reason for driving off a rival turns out to be self-interest."},
{"chunk":524,"story":57,"summary":"A mongrel pup is sold as a rare breed to a large woman and becomes her petted darling in a cheap flat.","predicament":"Someone is bought under a false description and doted on by the buyer."},
{"chunk":525,"story":57,"summary":"The flat holds the usual furniture and a small henpecked husband who wipes dishes and walks the dog each evening.","predicament":"Someone in a household does every chore and is respected by nobody in it."},
{"chunk":526,"story":57,"summary":"The wife idles all day and tidies up ten minutes before he returns; dog and husband keep to shabby streets.","predicament":"Two members of a household share the same daily humiliation without speaking of it."},
{"chunk":527,"story":57,"summary":"The dog urges him to cheer up, and learns from a neighbouring terrier why its owner comes home whistling.","predicament":"Someone wonders how a neighbour endures the same life so cheerfully."},
{"chunk":528,"story":57,"summary":"The remedy is drink; on the next walk the dog drags his man toward the doors of a saloon.","predicament":"Someone quietly steers another toward the escape that will free them both."},
{"chunk":529,"story":57,"summary":"After an hour of drinks the man throws away the collar and tells the dog to go; the dog refuses to leave.","predicament":"Someone sets another free and finds they will not go without them."},
{"chunk":530,"story":57,"summary":"The two set out together for the West, and the man gives the dog a plain new name of his own choosing.","predicament":"Two who were owned by the same household leave it together and start again."},
{"chunk":531,"story":58,"summary":"The night clerk of an old-fashioned drug store is counsellor and confessor to the whole neighbourhood.","predicament":"Someone's counter makes them the confidant of everyone around them."},
{"chunk":532,"story":58,"summary":"He loves his landlady's daughter but is too timid; his rival, bolder and friendly, drops in to ask for drugs.","predicament":"Someone too timid to speak watches a bolder rival court the same person."},
{"chunk":533,"story":58,"summary":"The rival says they are to run away and marry that night, if the young woman does not change her mind again.","predicament":"Someone hears from a rival the plan that will settle the matter tonight."},
{"chunk":534,"story":58,"summary":"The rival asks whether there is a powder that will make a girl like you better if it is given to her.","predicament":"Someone asks another for a means of making a person want them."},
{"chunk":535,"story":58,"summary":"The clerk makes up a sleeping powder, hands it over, and then sends word of the elopement to the girl's father.","predicament":"Someone hands a rival a trap and then warns the one person who can stop them."},
{"chunk":536,"story":58,"summary":"Next morning the rival appears married and happy: he would not drug her, so he put the powder in her father's coffee.","predicament":"Someone's double trap fails because the rival refused to use it as intended."},
{"chunk":537,"story":59,"summary":"A retired soap manufacturer, despised by his aristocratic neighbours, calls his son in and asks what he pays for soap.","predicament":"Someone who made their money in trade is looked down on by their neighbours."},
{"chunk":538,"story":59,"summary":"The father insists money buys anything; the son answers that it will not buy entry into exclusive society.","predicament":"Two people disagree about whether money can obtain what one of them wants."},
{"chunk":539,"story":59,"summary":"Pressed, the son admits a woman is the trouble, and the father tells him to make his chance and ask her.","predicament":"Someone in love is told to act by a person who cannot see the obstacle."},
{"chunk":540,"story":59,"summary":"She sails in two days, and all he will have is eight minutes in a cab between a train and a theatre.","predicament":"Someone has one small window of time in which to say the thing that matters."},
{"chunk":541,"story":59,"summary":"His aunt gives him his mother's ring for luck; he meets the young woman at the station and they drive off.","predicament":"Someone sets out for their one chance carrying a keepsake meant to bring luck."},
{"chunk":542,"story":59,"summary":"He stops the cab to recover the dropped ring, and in that minute the traffic locks solid all around them.","predicament":"Someone's brief delay traps them for hours exactly where they wanted to be."},
{"chunk":543,"story":59,"summary":"Two hours in the blockade wins him her promise, and his aunt declares that love, not money, did it.","predicament":"Someone credits the outcome to sentiment rather than to anything that was arranged."},
{"chunk":544,"story":59,"summary":"Next day a man calls for payment: he hired the wagons, cabs and police who made the blockade to order.","predicament":"Someone's miracle was bought and paid for by a person who denies nothing."},
{"chunk":545,"story":60,"summary":"A freelance typist weeps over a menu card; she has no shorthand and lives by odd jobs of copying.","predicament":"Someone scraping a living by odd work is reduced to tears by something small."},
{"chunk":546,"story":60,"summary":"She bargains with a restaurant to typewrite its daily bills of fare in exchange for three meals a day.","predicament":"Someone trades the one skill they have for food through a cold winter."},
{"chunk":547,"story":60,"summary":"In a cold false spring she sits at her window looking past a brick wall to the lane where she was courted.","predicament":"Someone shut in a cold room sees only the place where they were happy."},
{"chunk":548,"story":60,"summary":"The farmer crowned her with flowers and they were to marry at the first sign of spring; then she returned to work.","predicament":"Someone returns to work with a promise of marriage to be kept when the season turns."},
{"chunk":549,"story":60,"summary":"Typing the spring menu she reaches the flower's name, has had no letter for two weeks, and breaks down.","predicament":"Someone at ordinary work meets the one word that undoes them."},
{"chunk":550,"story":60,"summary":"She forces back the tears, finishes the cards, and at dinner sets that one dish aside untouched.","predicament":"Someone finishes their work and cannot bring themselves to eat what it named."},
{"chunk":551,"story":60,"summary":"That evening the bell rings and her farmer comes up the stairs three at a time to find her.","predicament":"Someone given up for lost arrives without warning at the door."},
{"chunk":552,"story":60,"summary":"He found her by the bill of fare, where her fingers had typed his name in place of the plant.","predicament":"Someone is found through a mistake their grief made in their ordinary work."},
{"chunk":553,"story":61,"summary":"A true adventurer goes out aimless to meet whatever fate offers, unlike those with a prize in view.","predicament":"Someone follows chance for its own sake rather than toward any goal."},
{"chunk":554,"story":61,"summary":"The city offers clues of adventure at every corner, and almost everyone passes them by out of convention.","predicament":"People are handed chances daily and let each one go by."},
{"chunk":555,"story":61,"summary":"A piano salesman who takes up every chance passes a dentist's card-giver outside a building one evening.","predicament":"Someone who accepts every invitation from chance is handed another."},
{"chunk":556,"story":61,"summary":"His card reads The Green Door in ink; the ones others drop are plain advertisements, and a second card says the same.","predicament":"Someone receives a message that nobody else appears to be given."},
{"chunk":557,"story":61,"summary":"On a third pass he is given no card and reads contempt in the man's face for his hesitation.","predicament":"Someone hesitating over a summons is made to feel they have been found wanting."},
{"chunk":558,"story":61,"summary":"He climbs the stairs, knocks at the green door, and a white-faced girl opens it and collapses into his arms.","predicament":"Someone answering a mysterious summons finds a person at the end of their strength."},
{"chunk":559,"story":61,"summary":"She has not eaten in three days; he runs out and comes back loaded with food from the shops.","predicament":"Someone finds a stranger starving and goes at once for food."},
{"chunk":560,"story":61,"summary":"Over supper she tells the common story of small wages, fines, illness, lost work and lost hope.","predicament":"Someone tells a stranger the ordinary story of how they came to be starving."},
{"chunk":561,"story":61,"summary":"He promises to come back tomorrow, and tells her he knocked by mistake rather than reveal the cards.","predicament":"Someone hides what they know so the other need never feel exposed."},
{"chunk":562,"story":61,"summary":"Every door in the house is green and the cards advertised a play; he decides Fate arranged it regardless.","predicament":"Someone learns their sign meant nothing and keeps believing it was meant for them."}
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{"chunk":563,"story":62,"summary":"From his high seat a cab driver sees every passenger as mere goods in transit, to be despised at the reckoning.","predicament":"Someone who carries others for pay sees them only as fares."},
{"chunk":564,"story":62,"summary":"A wedding is celebrated noisily in a tenement, and a cab driver stands by his fine hansom, plainly drunk.","predicament":"Someone at a celebration has drunk too much to know what they are doing."},
{"chunk":565,"story":62,"summary":"A young woman steps into his cab and says to drive anywhere; he takes her through the park, singing.","predicament":"Someone accepts a passenger without noticing who they are."},
{"chunk":566,"story":62,"summary":"He stops at a garden restaurant; she is swept inside, orders one beer with her coins, and watches entranced.","predicament":"Someone with a few coins is set down among luxury and simply enjoys it."},
{"chunk":567,"story":62,"summary":"Hours later he demands four dollars before going further; she laughs that she has only a few pennies.","predicament":"Someone demands payment from a passenger who never had the money."},
{"chunk":568,"story":62,"summary":"He drags her to the police station to complain, sobers, and introduces her to the sergeant as the bride he married tonight.","predicament":"Someone about to accuse a stranger recognises the person they married that evening."},
{"chunk":569,"story":63,"summary":"The narrator dreams of the day of judgment, where an angel policeman asks if he belongs with a prosperous-looking group.","predicament":"Someone at a final reckoning is asked which group of the accused they belong to."},
{"chunk":570,"story":63,"summary":"A shop girl on six dollars a week tells her friend she has accepted a dinner invitation from a known spender.","predicament":"Someone living on almost nothing accepts an invitation that may cost them more than money."},
{"chunk":571,"story":63,"summary":"She spends the fifty cents meant for three meals on an imitation lace collar, and goes up to her furnished room.","predicament":"Someone spends their food money on looking fit for an occasion."},
{"chunk":572,"story":63,"summary":"Her room holds a few treasures and portraits; her weekly budget for rent and food leaves nothing for clothes.","predicament":"Someone's wage exactly covers survival and nothing else."},
{"chunk":573,"story":63,"summary":"Her pleasures are counted by summers; the man calling for her is a well-dressed connoisseur of hungry shop girls.","predicament":"Someone starved of pleasure is about to be preyed on by a person who knows it."},
{"chunk":574,"story":63,"summary":"Dressed and happy, she turns for her handkerchief, meets a hero's portrait's stern eyes, and sends word she cannot go.","predicament":"Someone about to accept a dangerous invitation turns it down at the last moment."},
{"chunk":575,"story":63,"summary":"She cries, changes back into her old gown, and dines on crackers and jam, offering some to the portrait.","predicament":"Someone who refused a temptation consoles themselves alone with what little they have."},
{"chunk":576,"story":63,"summary":"She scolds the portrait; the story stops, and the dream's prosperous group proves to be employers who paid girls six dollars a week.","predicament":"Someone holds out tonight, knowing they may not the next time loneliness wins."},
{"chunk":577,"story":64,"summary":"A ragged man on a park bench believes himself a prince in disguise, far richer than the owners of the mansions opposite.","predicament":"Someone with nothing imagines that they have chosen to have nothing."},
{"chunk":578,"story":64,"summary":"He tells himself he has renounced wealth to study humanity and delights in bestowing gifts on the deserving.","predicament":"Someone powerless sustains themselves with the belief that they help others."},
{"chunk":579,"story":64,"summary":"A young man in evening clothes watches the clock tower in distress; the ragged prince approaches and offers his help.","predicament":"Someone anxiously waiting is offered help by a stranger who plainly has none to give."},
{"chunk":580,"story":64,"summary":"The prince denounces clocks as tyrants; the young man keeps glancing from the clock to a lit house opposite.","predicament":"Someone counting down to a verdict is lectured by a stranger about time."},
{"chunk":581,"story":64,"summary":"At ten to nine the young man nearly leaves, then explains he wronged his fiancee and awaits her decision.","predicament":"Someone who wronged the person they love waits for a sign of forgiveness."},
{"chunk":582,"story":64,"summary":"She promised a white scarf in the window at half past eight if she forgave him; the hour has passed and he despairs.","predicament":"Someone believes the deadline for forgiveness has passed without a sign."},
{"chunk":583,"story":64,"summary":"The prince promises a fortune on his wedding day and falls asleep; the young man covers him kindly, then the clock strikes.","predicament":"Someone despairing is kind to a poorer stranger just before their luck turns."},
{"chunk":584,"story":64,"summary":"The scarf appears: the clock was half an hour fast; next morning police find the sleeping vagrant clutching a fifty-dollar bill.","predicament":"Someone despairs over a deadline that was never real, and a kindness is quietly repaid."},
{"chunk":585,"story":65,"summary":"A sightseeing coach sets out, and on its highest back seat sit a young man from a small town and his bride.","predicament":"Two people newly married see the great city together for the first time."},
{"chunk":586,"story":65,"summary":"The guide bellows mistaken sights at passengers who gape at whatever he names, the bride among them.","predicament":"People new to a place believe whatever the guide tells them."},
{"chunk":587,"story":65,"summary":"The bride's face shows she thinks her husband right and the world excellent; he is twenty-four and rising.","predicament":"Two people newly married are completely content with each other and the world."},
{"chunk":588,"story":65,"summary":"In front of them sits a girl in a flowered hat beside a sharp-eyed young man who belongs to hard streets.","predicament":"Two couples share a seat; one of them has something to hide."},
{"chunk":589,"story":65,"summary":"The two women exchange a look and a whisper; the girl's companion slips over the side just as officers stop the coach.","predicament":"Two strangers understand each other at a glance, and one acts to help the other."},
{"chunk":590,"story":65,"summary":"The officers take the bridegroom for a wanted burglar; he goes down amused, expecting to explain.","predicament":"Someone is mistaken for a wanted person and expects the mistake to clear itself."},
{"chunk":591,"story":65,"summary":"His bride tells him to go quietly as the burglar, so he fights the police in fury until her uncle clears him.","predicament":"Someone is betrayed in front of the police by the person they trust most."},
{"chunk":592,"story":65,"summary":"She explains that the other pair had married that morning, and she could not refuse another bride her happiness.","predicament":"Someone sacrifices their partner's peace to protect a stranger in the same happy state."},
{"chunk":593,"story":66,"summary":"A broker arrives with his stenographer and plunges into work; she lingers, then asks whether he ordered a replacement.","predicament":"Someone expected to be noticed today is treated as part of the furniture."},
{"chunk":594,"story":66,"summary":"The clerk says the broker ordered one; she says she will work until someone comes, and the day's frenzy begins.","predicament":"Someone learns they are being replaced and quietly carries on working."},
{"chunk":595,"story":66,"summary":"An applicant arrives; the broker denies ordering any replacement and says the place is hers as long as she likes.","predicament":"Someone's employer forgets a decision made the day before."},
{"chunk":596,"story":66,"summary":"In a lull the scent of lilac reminds him of her, and he rushes to her desk to propose at once.","predicament":"Someone overwhelmed by work suddenly remembers the one thing that matters to them."},
{"chunk":597,"story":66,"summary":"He proposes in a hurry, papers in hand; she weeps, then reminds him they were married the evening before.","predicament":"Someone is so consumed by work they forget the most important thing already happened."},
{"chunk":598,"story":67,"summary":"A patrolman on his beat finds a man in a dark doorway who says he is keeping an appointment made twenty years ago.","predicament":"Someone keeps a promise to meet an old friend after twenty years apart."},
{"chunk":599,"story":67,"summary":"He tells of parting from his best friend twenty years ago, each to make a fortune, and shows a diamond watch.","predicament":"Someone who prospered far away returns trusting a friend to keep their old word."},
{"chunk":600,"story":67,"summary":"The patrolman moves on; twenty minutes later a tall man hurries across the street and greets him as his old friend.","predicament":"Someone waiting in the rain is greeted by the person they have waited for."},
{"chunk":601,"story":67,"summary":"They walk arm in arm until, under a bright light, he sees the stranger is not his friend at all.","predicament":"Someone realises the person they trusted on sight is not who they claimed."},
{"chunk":602,"story":67,"summary":"The stranger arrests him and hands him a note: his friend was the patrolman, and could not make the arrest himself.","predicament":"Someone must choose between their friend and their duty, and sends another to act."}
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{"chunk":603,"story":68,"summary":"A draughtsman on eighteen dollars a week saves a dollar weekly to spend one evening in ten dressed and dining as a rich idler.","predicament":"Someone of modest means saves for months to pass one evening as rich."},
{"chunk":604,"story":68,"summary":"Parading the bright street in borrowed grandeur, he stops at a corner as a girl slips on ice and falls.","predicament":"Someone enjoying their rare evening of show stops to help a stranger who falls."},
{"chunk":605,"story":68,"summary":"He helps her up; she seems a refined working girl in a plain dress, and he decides to invite her to dine.","predicament":"Someone playing a part decides to share their one evening with a stranger."},
{"chunk":606,"story":68,"summary":"He invites her to dinner to rest her ankle; she hesitates over her plain clothes, and he insists they suit her.","predicament":"Someone extends an invitation across what they believe is a gap in station."},
{"chunk":607,"story":68,"summary":"She accepts and gives only her first name; at a good restaurant each looks at the other with growing admiration.","predicament":"Two strangers enjoy each other's company without knowing the truth about either."},
{"chunk":608,"story":68,"summary":"Carried away, he boasts of clubs, yachts and idleness; she asks whether he has no work that would interest him more.","predicament":"Someone lies about their standing to impress a person who would have preferred the truth."},
{"chunk":609,"story":68,"summary":"They part; he wishes he had told the truth; she hurries to a grand mansion where her sister has been anxious.","predicament":"Someone regrets the lie they told, while the other returns to a life they also hid."},
{"chunk":610,"story":68,"summary":"She tells her sister she could love a poor man with an ambition, but never an idler between clubs and society.","predicament":"Someone describes exactly the person they would love, and it is who the liar really was."},
{"chunk":611,"story":69,"summary":"A young man passing a young woman on a park bench stops further on, and sends a boy with a message to her.","predicament":"Someone forbidden to speak to a person they love sends word through a stranger."},
{"chunk":612,"story":69,"summary":"The message says he is leaving the country and asks her, for old times' sake, why she discarded him without explanation.","predicament":"Someone dismissed without explanation makes one last appeal for a reason."},
{"chunk":613,"story":69,"summary":"The boy delivers it in street slang; she answers with cool irony that she knew the gentleman and will hear it.","predicament":"Someone receives an appeal from a person they have cut off, and listens coldly."},
{"chunk":614,"story":69,"summary":"She says she saw him in the conservatory embracing another woman, and so gave up both her rose and her ideal.","predicament":"Someone judged by what they appeared to be doing was never asked to explain it."},
{"chunk":615,"story":69,"summary":"He sends back a letter, saying a little trust would have spared much heartache, and the boy vouches for him.","predicament":"Someone wrongly condemned produces the proof they were never given a chance to show."},
{"chunk":616,"story":69,"summary":"The letter thanks him, a doctor, for catching the other woman when she fainted; the young woman sends back that she wants him.","predicament":"Someone learns that what they condemned was a kindness, and takes the person back."},
{"chunk":617,"story":70,"summary":"In a district of transient lodgers, a young man rings a dozen bells and is shown a room by a sinister housekeeper.","predicament":"Someone searching for a place to stay tries door after door in a shifting neighbourhood."},
{"chunk":618,"story":70,"summary":"She praises the room and its last tenants, a stage couple; many of her lodgers work in the theatres and move on.","predicament":"Someone is shown a room by a landlady eager to describe everyone but the truth."},
{"chunk":619,"story":70,"summary":"He takes the room and asks, as he has a thousand times, after a young singer; the answer, as always, is no.","predicament":"Someone has searched for months for a lost person and hears the same answer again."},
{"chunk":620,"story":70,"summary":"Alone in the shabby room, he takes in the pictures and castoffs that pursue the homeless from house to house.","predicament":"Someone alone in a strange room reads the traces of everyone who stayed there before."},
{"chunk":621,"story":70,"summary":"The room's damage speaks of the rage of past tenants against a place that pretended to be a home.","predicament":"Someone sees in a room's scars how others resented a home that was never theirs."},
{"chunk":622,"story":70,"summary":"Suddenly the room fills with the scent the lost girl loved, and he cries out that she has been here.","predicament":"Someone senses the presence of the person they seek, but cannot find any proof."},
{"chunk":623,"story":70,"summary":"He ransacks drawers and corners for any trace of her and finds only the anonymous leavings of strangers.","predicament":"Someone searches everywhere for one sign they are right, and finds nothing."},
{"chunk":624,"story":70,"summary":"The housekeeper lists the room's previous tenants, none like her; he returns and the scent has gone.","predicament":"Someone asks directly and is told a lie that ends their last hope."},
{"chunk":625,"story":70,"summary":"He seals the room and turns on the gas; below, the housekeeper admits a young girl killed herself in that bed a week ago.","predicament":"Someone gives up just as the truth is being concealed a floor below them."},
{"chunk":626,"story":71,"summary":"A cheap chop house is kept by a sour owner at the cash desk, and served by two waitresses, one of them beautiful.","predicament":"Two people do the same work where only one of them is noticed."},
{"chunk":627,"story":71,"summary":"The other waitress is plain and too anxious to please; every customer is enslaved by her beautiful partner.","predicament":"Someone plain works beside someone admired and receives none of the attention."},
{"chunk":628,"story":71,"summary":"The beautiful one is courted and given presents by regulars; the plain one has never had a single admirer.","predicament":"Someone who has never been wanted watches another be wanted daily."},
{"chunk":629,"story":71,"summary":"The plain one is loyal and content to be overlooked, and listens enviously to her friend's tale of being followed and struck.","predicament":"Someone envies even the troubles that come to people others find desirable."},
{"chunk":630,"story":71,"summary":"A shy customer, drunk, kisses the plain waitress and leaves; her friend teases her as a rival, and she feels transformed.","predicament":"Someone overlooked all their life is suddenly singled out, and becomes someone new."},
{"chunk":631,"story":71,"summary":"She tells the owner and every customer she was insulted; she gets a raise, ribbons and new attention.","predicament":"Someone makes the most of the single sign that they were desired."},
{"chunk":632,"story":71,"summary":"The man returns to apologise, saying he was drunk and would never have done it sober; she sobs among the cups.","predicament":"Someone learns the one sign of being wanted was an accident the other regrets."},
{"chunk":633,"story":72,"summary":"Two country girls come to the city for work; one irons in a laundry and dresses loudly on good wages.","predicament":"Someone takes the best-paying work available and spends it on show."},
{"chunk":634,"story":72,"summary":"The other sells in a department store at eight dollars a week, dressed plainly but in the manner of the rich.","predicament":"Someone chooses lower pay to stay close to the people they hope to join."},
{"chunk":635,"story":72,"summary":"The store girl says she means to catch a rich husband; the laundress met her steady young man over her ironing board.","predicament":"Two friends argue whether to aim high and hungry or stay content with what comes."},
{"chunk":636,"story":72,"summary":"The laundress's steady electrician arrives and proposes the theatre, and the two women trade teasing about manners.","predicament":"Someone steady and plain is overlooked by the people he takes out."},
{"chunk":637,"story":72,"summary":"In the store the girl copies the gestures, voice and walk of her richest customers and absorbs their manners.","predicament":"Someone learns the manners of a class above them by watching it closely."},
{"chunk":638,"story":72,"summary":"The store girls pool their stratagems for fending off men, and she learns the art of defence.","predicament":"People in the same position share their methods for dealing with those who pursue them."},
{"chunk":639,"story":72,"summary":"Men linger at her counter; she learns to tell the real rich from the imitators by the cars waiting outside.","predicament":"Someone hunting a prize learns to tell the genuine article from the imitation."},
{"chunk":640,"story":72,"summary":"A genuinely rich young man proposes to her over the counter, and she declines him to her colleague's horror.","predicament":"Someone turns down the prize they were seeking because of what they saw in the person."},
{"chunk":641,"story":72,"summary":"She explains that he was caught in a lie and that she wants someone who is more than a moneybag.","predicament":"Someone holds out for character in a partner even at the price of a fortune."},
{"chunk":642,"story":72,"summary":"She keeps hunting on eight dollars a week, while the laundress spends her wages on ever showier clothes.","predicament":"Two friends pursue their different ideas of success and slowly drift from the same person."},
{"chunk":643,"story":72,"summary":"The laundress refuses to marry her steady man and keep house, and offers to find her friend better-paid work.","predicament":"Someone keeps a faithful suitor waiting because their independence pleases them more."},
{"chunk":644,"story":72,"summary":"The store girl says she is still looking the rich over; her friend mocks her plain jacket and bets she will catch one first.","predicament":"Two friends compete over who will marry better, each sure of her own method."},
{"chunk":645,"story":72,"summary":"Surrounded by luxury, her standard of value slowly shifts from money toward truth, honour and kindness.","predicament":"Someone pursuing wealth finds they have begun to value something else."},
{"chunk":646,"story":72,"summary":"The steady man says the laundress has vanished, seen riding with a rich man; the store girl goes to the show with him.","predicament":"Someone abandoned by the person they waited for is comforted by the friend left behind."},
{"chunk":647,"story":72,"summary":"Months later the laundress, dressed in furs and jewels, learns her friend is marrying the man she left, and sobs against a fence.","predicament":"Someone who took the glittering offer sees the one they rejected make another happy."}
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{"chunk":648,"story":73,"summary":"A wealthy man receives his wife's photograph and a letter hinting ill of her, tears it up, and asks about the homeless men outside.","predicament":"Someone far from their partner is sent poison about them and cannot check it."},
{"chunk":649,"story":73,"summary":"He orders his servant to fetch one of the homeless men at random to dine with him, to lift his mood.","predicament":"Someone troubled seeks distraction by inviting a stranger from the street."},
{"chunk":650,"story":73,"summary":"The guest arrives washed but wrecked, defiant and unembarrassed, and announces his own name before his host's.","predicament":"Someone brought in from the street keeps their pride at a rich person's table."},
{"chunk":651,"story":73,"summary":"The guest mocks the city's would-be benefactors, who all pay for a meal by extracting the recipient's life story.","predicament":"Someone who lives on charity knows the price is always their story."},
{"chunk":652,"story":73,"summary":"The host asks for no story; the guest offers the truth instead: he was once a fashionable portrait painter.","predicament":"Someone offered kindness without conditions responds by telling the truth."},
{"chunk":653,"story":73,"summary":"His portraits revealed each sitter's hidden character, and one after another his patrons were exposed and turned on him.","predicament":"Someone's gift for showing the truth about people costs them every client."},
{"chunk":654,"story":73,"summary":"Unable to work anywhere, he took to drink; the host has him draw a sketch from the photograph of his wife.","predicament":"Someone tormented by doubt asks for a test that could confirm their worst fear."},
{"chunk":655,"story":73,"summary":"The painter leaves with money; the host cannot bring himself to look, and sends for a young artist to judge the sketch.","predicament":"Someone holds the answer to their doubt and is afraid to look at it."},
{"chunk":656,"story":73,"summary":"The young artist calls the drawing a master's and the face an angel's; the host cries that she is his wife.","predicament":"Someone's fear about the person they love is answered in that person's favour."},
{"chunk":657,"story":74,"summary":"A man stopping at his usual bar after work overhears a friend saying he was very drunk there last night.","predicament":"Someone overhears how others really see a habit they thought harmless."},
{"chunk":658,"story":74,"summary":"Shaken, he orders seltzer and leaves; the story recalls his summer courtship of his wife and their shared love of a poem.","predicament":"Someone confronted with the truth about themselves resolves to change at once."},
{"chunk":659,"story":74,"summary":"They married, came to the city, and as his salary rose they took up the showy, drinking life of the cafes.","predicament":"Two people drift gradually into habits neither of them chose deliberately."},
{"chunk":660,"story":74,"summary":"Their home life becomes cocktails and late parties, and he comes home merry each evening to wild greetings.","predicament":"Two people mistake shared excess for shared happiness."},
{"chunk":661,"story":74,"summary":"He comes home sober, kisses her quietly, and when she asks what is wrong, he answers that nothing is.","predicament":"Someone changes suddenly and will not explain why to the person who notices."},
{"chunk":662,"story":74,"summary":"He declines the whisky at dinner and says he has stopped; she answers coldly, and the evening dies in silence.","predicament":"Someone's reform is felt by their partner as a rebuke they were not consulted about."},
{"chunk":663,"story":74,"summary":"She sets out the bottle defiantly; he recites their old verse to her, then goes and pours himself a drink.","predicament":"Someone about to relapse reminds the other, unintentionally, of who they both used to be."},
{"chunk":664,"story":74,"summary":"She sweeps the bottle and glasses to the floor, embraces him, and asks for the verse about remoulding things nearer the heart's desire.","predicament":"Two people see what their life has become and choose together to break it."},
{"chunk":665,"story":75,"summary":"A man two years married walks home from the train knowing exactly how the whole evening will go.","predicament":"Someone's home life has become so routine that nothing in it can surprise them."},
{"chunk":666,"story":75,"summary":"He knows the dinner, the noises of the flats, and that at a quarter past eight he will leave to play pool.","predicament":"Someone escapes a dull household every evening and has stopped noticing it."},
{"chunk":667,"story":75,"summary":"Tonight she is gone, her things scattered in haste, with a note that her mother is ill and she has taken the train.","predicament":"Someone comes home to find the person they took for granted suddenly absent."},
{"chunk":668,"story":75,"summary":"Alone for the first time in two years of marriage, he tidies her things with a feeling close to terror.","predicament":"Someone realises how much they depended on a person only when that person is gone."},
{"chunk":669,"story":75,"summary":"He eats cold mutton alone; the whole night is free for pleasure, and he discovers he does not want it.","predicament":"Someone given the freedom they wanted finds it worthless without the person they escaped."},
{"chunk":670,"story":75,"summary":"He calls himself a brute for neglecting her, resolves to take her out and give up his cronies, and she walks in.","predicament":"Someone resolves to change just as the need for change disappears."},
{"chunk":671,"story":75,"summary":"Her mother was hardly ill and she came straight back; at a quarter past eight he reaches for his hat as always.","predicament":"Someone's resolution vanishes the moment the thing they missed is restored."},
{"chunk":672,"story":76,"summary":"On the national holiday a vagrant takes the same bench he has taken at the same hour for nine years.","predicament":"Someone keeps an annual appointment that has become an institution."},
{"chunk":673,"story":76,"summary":"This year he arrives already gorged, having just eaten an enormous unexpected dinner, and can barely breathe.","predicament":"Someone arrives for a ritual meal having already eaten beyond their limit."},
{"chunk":674,"story":76,"summary":"Two old ladies' custom of feeding the first hungry passer-by caught him; now he sees his yearly benefactor approaching.","predicament":"Someone sees their benefactor coming and cannot possibly accept what is offered."},
{"chunk":675,"story":76,"summary":"For nine years an old gentleman has fed this same man a holiday dinner, hoping to found an American tradition.","predicament":"Someone lonely has built their only ritual around a stranger's hunger."},
{"chunk":676,"story":76,"summary":"He makes his usual speech of invitation, a little sadly, wishing he had a son to carry on the custom after him.","predicament":"Someone with no heirs wants a small kindness to outlive them."},
{"chunk":677,"story":76,"summary":"The old man lives alone in rented rooms; seeing his joy, the gorged vagrant accepts in the usual words out of duty.","predicament":"Someone accepts a kindness they cannot use so as not to disappoint the giver."},
{"chunk":678,"story":76,"summary":"At the restaurant he eats a second vast dinner rather than dim the old man's happiness, then collapses around the corner.","predicament":"Someone suffers greatly to preserve another person's pleasure in giving."},
{"chunk":679,"story":76,"summary":"Both men land in the hospital, where a doctor mentions the old gentleman is starving: he had not eaten for three days.","predicament":"Someone gives their last to keep a tradition and has kept nothing for themselves."},
{"chunk":680,"story":77,"summary":"A well-dressed man without a cent walks through a park pitying the idle poor, sure he will be rich again by morning.","predicament":"Someone penniless looks down on others, confident their wits will provide."},
{"chunk":681,"story":77,"summary":"He gets five dollars from a clergyman with a forged letter, then placates a creditor in the street with drinks.","predicament":"Someone lives by lies and turns every creditor into a friend for the evening."},
{"chunk":682,"story":77,"summary":"He loses most of it at roulette, then cheats a small child of the change from his mother's medicine money.","predicament":"Someone with nothing left preys even on a child running an errand."},
{"chunk":683,"story":77,"summary":"He saves the child from two street cars, sends him off swindled and happy, and dines laughing at how easily everyone is taken in.","predicament":"Someone who cheats everyone also acts on reflex to save a life."},
{"chunk":684,"story":77,"summary":"Old friends try to sweep him off to a dinner party; he declines with a grand lie, delighted at how front works.","predicament":"Someone lies even when the truth would serve, for the pleasure of being believed."},
{"chunk":685,"story":77,"summary":"An old countryman asks for his son's address; the swindler first refuses, then claims to live next door to the son.","predicament":"Someone lost in a strange city asks help of exactly the wrong person."},
{"chunk":686,"story":77,"summary":"An hour later, with a hundred and forty dollars, he tosses a beggar a dollar and tells him work is for fools.","predicament":"Someone who takes from everyone gives a little and preaches contempt for honest work."},
{"chunk":687,"story":77,"summary":"Crossing to his hotel he sees a pure-faced girl he sat beside at school, and hides his burning face against a lamp-post.","predicament":"Someone who despises everyone is undone by the sight of their own innocent past."}
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{"chunk":688,"story":78,"summary":"The senior partner of a great western dry-goods store sends his junior east to buy the season's stock this year.","predicament":"Someone is sent in another's place on an errand far from home."},
{"chunk":689,"story":78,"summary":"The wholesaler greets the buyer, predicts his order from the rainfall, and tells his son to show him the town.","predicament":"Someone new to a place is entertained by people who want their business."},
{"chunk":690,"story":78,"summary":"Unimpressed by the city's lights, the buyer is struck motionless when the firm's best model comes to show the gowns.","predicament":"Someone indifferent to everything around them is stopped dead by one person."},
{"chunk":691,"story":78,"summary":"She models gown after gown with a tired contempt, and the wholesaler offers her as company for dinner.","predicament":"Someone's employer offers their time to a customer as part of the sale."},
{"chunk":692,"story":78,"summary":"She agrees coolly; at dinner he takes away her cocktail and asks her first name, which she gives freezingly.","predicament":"Someone treated as a customer's entertainment meets one who treats them as a person."},
{"chunk":693,"story":78,"summary":"He tells her she will go home with him and offers a diamond; she flicks it back, sure he is like all buyers.","predicament":"Someone used to buyers' advances cannot tell a sincere proposal from the usual ones."},
{"chunk":694,"story":78,"summary":"She explains she must dine with buyers or lose her place; he says she will drink no more wine, and she weeps.","predicament":"Someone's livelihood requires accepting attentions they despise."},
{"chunk":695,"story":78,"summary":"She slaps him; a wedding ring falls from his pocket, and that night she wakes her roommate to ask where his town is.","predicament":"Someone realises the offer they rejected as insult was honest, and accepts it."},
{"chunk":696,"story":79,"summary":"A rich man's war comrade turns up penniless at his club and asks for help finding a job.","predicament":"Someone asks a richer friend from shared hardship for a start."},
{"chunk":697,"story":79,"summary":"The rich man gets him the post he asks for, a mounted policeman in the park, and soon after glimpses a beautiful woman.","predicament":"Someone helps a friend into work and then falls for a stranger."},
{"chunk":698,"story":79,"summary":"He falls in love with a young woman in a passing motor car; later, at a reunion, the policeman gets too drunk to ride.","predicament":"Someone's friend is about to lose their post through one night's excess."},
{"chunk":699,"story":79,"summary":"To save his friend's badge, the rich man puts on the uniform and rides the patrol in his place.","predicament":"Someone takes a friend's place to protect their job and good name."},
{"chunk":700,"story":79,"summary":"In the park he meets the woman he loves in a carriage; the horses bolt and he rides them down.","predicament":"Someone in a borrowed identity performs a rescue for the person they love."},
{"chunk":701,"story":79,"summary":"Thanked and asked his name, he realises giving it would disgrace his friend, and answers that it is only his duty.","predicament":"Someone must forgo the credit they want most to protect a friend's position."},
{"chunk":702,"story":79,"summary":"His friend reveals he is an earl's son whose family has found him, and that the woman, his sister, wants to meet the rescuer.","predicament":"Someone's sacrifice for a friend is repaid with the very thing they gave up."},
{"chunk":703,"story":80,"summary":"A rich heir, annoyed at being kept in town to sign papers, grumbles at the family lawyer.","predicament":"Someone who owns much is bored by the duties that come with it."},
{"chunk":704,"story":80,"summary":"The lawyer tries to raise a matter of right concerning his properties; he brushes it off and finds his club empty.","predicament":"Someone avoids hearing about the consequences of what they own."},
{"chunk":705,"story":80,"summary":"On a whim he takes a crowded boat to the amusement beach and falls into talk with a frank, pretty girl.","predicament":"Someone of standing slips among ordinary people and is charmed by one of them."},
{"chunk":706,"story":80,"summary":"She teases him, lets him join her, and tells him she trims hats and lives in a furnished room with a friend.","predicament":"Someone poor explains their plain life to a stranger without embarrassment."},
{"chunk":707,"story":80,"summary":"The crowd's vulgarity repels him until he looks at her happy face and suddenly sees the place as she does.","predicament":"Someone despising other people's pleasures sees them differently through one person's eyes."},
{"chunk":708,"story":80,"summary":"He throws himself into the amusements with her, and on the boat home he forgets his cares and repeats her name.","predicament":"Someone set apart by wealth enjoys themselves plainly for the first time."},
{"chunk":709,"story":80,"summary":"A steamer rams their boat; the life preservers prove rotten, and she laughs and holds his hand calmly.","predicament":"Someone in danger finds the safeguards meant to protect them are fraudulent."},
{"chunk":710,"story":80,"summary":"He declares his love; she says that is what they all say, and explains she meets men on boats and in the street.","predicament":"Someone learns the person they love must meet strangers in public for want of a place."},
{"chunk":711,"story":80,"summary":"She explains that where she lives there is no parlour and no room to receive anyone, so a girl must meet men outside.","predicament":"Someone's living conditions force them into risks that others judge them for."},
{"chunk":712,"story":80,"summary":"Next day he learns the houses without parlours are his own; he tells the lawyer to change them, crying it is too late.","predicament":"Someone discovers they caused the harm they deplore, too late to undo it."},
{"chunk":713,"story":81,"summary":"A wandering tramp studies each city as a poet would, finding its soul and then moving restlessly to another.","predicament":"Someone moves from place to place, understanding each and belonging to none."},
{"chunk":714,"story":81,"summary":"He has personal fancies for each city he has known: one hearty, one aloof, one chilling, each with its own figure.","predicament":"Someone judges every place by how it treated them as a stranger."},
{"chunk":715,"story":81,"summary":"He arrives in the greatest city meaning to read it like the others, and by afternoon is defeated and frightened.","predicament":"Someone confident of reading any place meets one that gives them nothing."},
{"chunk":716,"story":81,"summary":"No one looks at him or speaks to him; he longs for even the kicks and stares of the rougher cities.","predicament":"Someone would rather be mistreated than ignored."},
{"chunk":717,"story":81,"summary":"The people seem cold, conceited idols; he singles out three types: a rich old man, a cold beauty, and a jowled tough.","predicament":"Someone surrounded by strangers finds them all cold and self-absorbed."},
{"chunk":718,"story":81,"summary":"Refused alms, he is struck by a car, and opens his eyes to find those same three strangers tending him with care.","predicament":"Someone who thought a place heartless is cared for by it at their worst moment."},
{"chunk":719,"story":81,"summary":"A kindly crowd gathers and he says he feels fine; three days later he fights a patient for running down his city.","predicament":"Someone who found the heart of a place defends it against the next stranger."},
{"chunk":720,"story":82,"summary":"The vainest and cleverest member of a street gang of well-dressed robbers withdraws from it because the girl he loves asks him to.","predicament":"Someone gives up profitable wrongdoing because the person they love asks."},
{"chunk":721,"story":82,"summary":"He promises to work honestly and marry within a year, though he looks mournfully at his fine clothes.","predicament":"Someone commits to an honest life knowing it will cost them their pride."},
{"chunk":722,"story":82,"summary":"He returns to plumbing as an assistant for eight months, his clothes wearing thin, then brings her a mysterious parcel.","predicament":"Someone going straight grows shabby and wants to show they still have style."},
{"chunk":723,"story":82,"summary":"The parcel holds costly-looking sables; she is overjoyed, then looks at him steadily, doubting how he paid.","predicament":"Someone receives a gift too fine for the giver's wages and wonders where it came from."},
{"chunk":724,"story":82,"summary":"She parades them through the neighbourhood as a queen; a fair-minded detective hears of the fabulous furs and follows.","predicament":"Someone's display of a gift draws the attention of the person investigating a theft."},
{"chunk":725,"story":82,"summary":"The detective says a lady's sables vanished from a house the man worked at yesterday, and offers to check his story.","predicament":"Someone who reformed is suspected at once when something goes missing."},
{"chunk":726,"story":82,"summary":"He admits theft rather than say where he bought them; a policeman who sold furs prices them at twenty-one dollars.","predicament":"Someone would rather be thought a thief than be seen to have bought cheap."},
{"chunk":727,"story":82,"summary":"She cries that she wants only him, not furs; the real sables were found at home, and the officers let them go.","predicament":"Someone's vanity nearly ruins them, and the person they tried to impress forgives it."}
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{"chunk":728,"story":83,"summary":"A tailor's apprentice with his week's twelve dollars goes to the cafe where the district's political leader is celebrating victory.","predicament":"Someone at the bottom worships the powerful person at the top of their small world."},
{"chunk":729,"story":83,"summary":"Emboldened, he shakes the great man's hand and spends his whole week's wages buying wine for him and his lieutenants.","predicament":"Someone spends everything they have for a moment's acknowledgement from a superior."},
{"chunk":730,"story":83,"summary":"His family shrieks and strikes at him over the lost wages, but he is ecstatic; the leader himself cannot enter the best houses.","predicament":"Someone considers a public humiliation worth it for the honour they gained."},
{"chunk":731,"story":83,"summary":"At a fashionable restaurant the political leader dines gloomily, ignored; across the room sits a millionaire of the oldest society.","predicament":"Someone powerful in their own world is nobody in the world they want to enter."},
{"chunk":732,"story":83,"summary":"The leader walks over and offers help with the aristocrat's reforms; the handshake raises him in every eye, and he orders wine for all.","predicament":"Someone gains standing by offering service to the person whose acceptance they crave."},
{"chunk":733,"story":83,"summary":"The aristocrat drives his fiancee through the slums, pointing out where he will build kitchens and replace the old death-traps.","predicament":"Someone at the very top seeks meaning by helping those at the very bottom."},
{"chunk":734,"story":83,"summary":"On impulse he grasps the hand of a squalid young man coming out of a tenement, and feels almost happy: it is the apprentice.","predicament":"Each person in the chain seeks the approval of the one above and gives it below."},
{"chunk":735,"story":84,"summary":"Two shop girls plan new dresses for the store's holiday dinner, one purple, one red, each hoping to charm the head clerk.","predicament":"Two coworkers compete quietly for the notice of the same person."},
{"chunk":736,"story":84,"summary":"She has saved eighteen dollars over eight months and needs four more to collect the dress the day before the holiday.","predicament":"Someone has saved for months toward a single occasion and is nearly there."},
{"chunk":737,"story":84,"summary":"The head clerk is a gentleman and a health crank, and every girl in the store dreams of becoming his wife.","predicament":"Everyone in a workplace hopes to win the same well-placed person."},
{"chunk":738,"story":84,"summary":"The night before, her rival is locked out over four dollars of rent; she gives her the four dollars meant for the dress.","predicament":"Someone gives a rival the money they needed to reach their own goal."},
{"chunk":739,"story":84,"summary":"Her rival goes to the dinner in red; she stays home by the window, then tells the tailor she cannot pay.","predicament":"Someone misses the occasion they saved for, having given their chance away."},
{"chunk":740,"story":84,"summary":"The tailor, who has watched her pass for two years, gives her the dress to pay later; she walks out happy into the rain.","predicament":"Someone is trusted on credit by a stranger who has quietly observed their character."},
{"chunk":741,"story":84,"summary":"The head clerk meets her walking bareheaded in the rain, praises her dress and her good sense, and asks to walk with her.","predicament":"Someone who gave up their chance is noticed anyway, by accident, by the person they hoped for."},
{"chunk":742,"story":85,"summary":"A fire company's cart driver follows a foreign war obsessively on a pinned map, cheering one side and cursing the other.","predicament":"Someone takes fierce sides in a distant quarrel that has nothing to do with them."},
{"chunk":743,"story":85,"summary":"The firemen live by an unwritten code; meanwhile a grinning, bewildered immigrant is put ashore and wanders into the city.","predicament":"Someone arrives in a strange country with nothing and understands nothing around them."},
{"chunk":744,"story":85,"summary":"The immigrant steps in front of the racing hose cart; the driver swerves into a pillar, breaking his shoulder and the horse's leg.","predicament":"Someone's duty to spare a stranger costs them dearly and ruins something they love."},
{"chunk":745,"story":85,"summary":"The beloved horse is shot; the firemen drag the immigrant back to the station and abuse him as worthless foreign rubbish.","predicament":"Someone grieving blames the helpless stranger who caused the loss."},
{"chunk":746,"story":85,"summary":"A shopkeeper who claims many languages cannot place him and calls him a fool; the firemen kick him into the street.","predicament":"Someone nobody can understand is judged worthless and thrown out."},
{"chunk":747,"story":85,"summary":"The stranger keeps returning to apologise and is kicked out daily, until the driver's small son befriends him.","predicament":"Someone despised keeps coming back to make amends until one person accepts them."},
{"chunk":748,"story":85,"summary":"The boy sets a motor car running away; the stranger leaps on the remaining horse bareback and snatches him from it.","predicament":"Someone despised saves the life of a child belonging to those who scorned them."},
{"chunk":749,"story":85,"summary":"The driver grips his hand; told the stranger is a Cossack, a kind of Russian, he promptly changes sides in the war.","predicament":"Someone's gratitude to one person changes their opinion of that person's whole people."},
{"chunk":750,"story":86,"summary":"A sober, capable bartender loves his employer's daughter but cannot say a word to her.","predicament":"Someone competent at everything else is helpless before the person they love."},
{"chunk":751,"story":86,"summary":"Speechless before her, he talks only of rain; two men in the back room spend their days mixing and discarding drinks.","predicament":"Someone shy manages only small talk with the person they hope to marry."},
{"chunk":752,"story":86,"summary":"The men explain that to dodge a heavy duty abroad they dumped all their bottles into two barrels, one vile, one sublime.","predicament":"Two people stumbled once on a success they cannot reproduce."},
{"chunk":753,"story":86,"summary":"The second barrel gave courage, ambition and nerve; they sold it by the glass until a whole country nearly declared war.","predicament":"Someone had one extraordinary success and has spent everything since trying to repeat it."},
{"chunk":754,"story":86,"summary":"For ten months they have mixed every liquor they own trying to find it again, pouring each failure away.","predicament":"Someone keeps searching for the one missing ingredient they cannot identify."},
{"chunk":755,"story":86,"summary":"The bartender repeats the daughter's remark about water; they realise the missing element and are soon arrested for fighting and singing.","predicament":"Someone's casual remark gives others the answer they could not find."},
{"chunk":756,"story":86,"summary":"He drinks the last two spoonfuls of the golden blend, lifts the daughter off her feet, and announces they are to be married.","predicament":"Someone suddenly finds the nerve they lacked and says the one thing they wanted to."},
{"chunk":757,"story":87,"summary":"A young wife proudly shows her friend the bruises her husband gives her, saying a man who does not beat you does not care.","predicament":"Someone mistakes cruelty followed by gifts for proof of love."},
{"chunk":758,"story":87,"summary":"The friend asks whether it hurts and why he does it; she laughs that it earns her theatre tickets and silk.","predicament":"Someone asks another to explain a way of life they cannot understand."},
{"chunk":759,"story":87,"summary":"She says he beats her when drunk; the friend confesses her own husband never strikes her and never takes her anywhere either.","predicament":"Someone compares their dull marriage with a violent one and starts to envy it."},
{"chunk":760,"story":87,"summary":"The husband bursts in with bundles, theatre tickets and the promised silk waist, and the envious friend goes upstairs.","predicament":"Someone watches another receive the reward they believe is missing from their own life."},
{"chunk":761,"story":87,"summary":"The friend cries without reason; her husband comes home, grunts at supper, and reads in his stocking feet.","predicament":"Someone feels neglected by a partner who is steady, dull and silent."},
{"chunk":762,"story":87,"summary":"On the holiday her friend is merry in new silk; seized by jealousy, she resolves to provoke her own husband into striking her.","predicament":"Someone decides to provoke the reaction they think proves they are cared for."},
{"chunk":763,"story":87,"summary":"She rails at him and strikes him twice in the face, closing her eyes and waiting for the blow she longs for.","predicament":"Someone deliberately picks a fight to make a quiet partner show feeling."},
{"chunk":764,"story":87,"summary":"Her friend runs up to see; she sobs that he never touched her, and has instead begun washing the clothes.","predicament":"Someone's provocation is answered with a kindness that feels like a humiliation."},
{"chunk":765,"story":88,"summary":"A tired father reading by the window refuses to play with his young daughter and sends her out to play in the street.","predicament":"Someone too tired to give attention sends a child out to find it elsewhere."},
{"chunk":766,"story":88,"summary":"Years on, a gang leader bets he will take another girl to the dance, and his friend warns him not to cross his fiancee.","predicament":"Someone risks the loyal person who loves them to prove a point about who owns whom."},
{"chunk":767,"story":88,"summary":"He wants to teach his fiancee a lesson for her jealousy and drinking; his friend recalls he gave her her first drink.","predicament":"Someone blames another for faults they themselves introduced."},
{"chunk":768,"story":88,"summary":"She drinks whisky in a cafe and tells the waiter that if he takes the other girl to the dance she will kill him.","predicament":"Someone betrayed by the person they depend on vows revenge over drink."},
{"chunk":769,"story":88,"summary":"She recalls sitting on doorsteps as a child with nothing at home, then sits and teaches a small girl a string game.","predicament":"Someone who had nothing as a child sees their own beginning in another child."},
{"chunk":770,"story":88,"summary":"At the dance she steps out and stabs him, then runs, pursued down the street by a howling crowd.","predicament":"Someone driven past bearing turns on the person who shaped and then betrayed them."},
{"chunk":771,"story":88,"summary":"She throws herself into the river; the narrator dreams of a heavenly court where she is brought up for judgment.","predicament":"Someone destroyed by circumstances is judged as though they alone were responsible."},
{"chunk":772,"story":88,"summary":"The court discharges her and sends the officer after the guilty party: the father who sat reading while his children played in the street.","predicament":"Someone who neglected a child years ago is named as the true cause of their ruin."}
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{"chunk":773,"story":89,"summary":"A police captain dismissed in a reform scandal has fallen to begging, and befriends another man as low as himself.","predicament":"Someone thrown out of a powerful post has sunk to the bottom with nothing left."},
{"chunk":774,"story":89,"summary":"His companion was thrown out of a rich uncle's house; the two sit on a park bench, one cursing, one silent.","predicament":"Two people fallen from very different heights share the same bench and the same hunger."},
{"chunk":775,"story":89,"summary":"Starving after a failed attempt at a free lunch, the former captain goes off to try one more scheme for food.","predicament":"Someone desperate for food goes out to try one last plan."},
{"chunk":776,"story":89,"summary":"Left alone, the young man goes to the police to ask whether there is a reward for his friend; the sergeant throws him out.","predicament":"Someone starving tries to sell out the friend who shares their bench."},
{"chunk":777,"story":89,"summary":"The captain returns splattered, having proposed to a fruit seller for her business; he would do anything, he says, except betray a friend.","predicament":"Someone willing to stoop to anything draws the line at betraying a friend."},
{"chunk":778,"story":89,"summary":"A political agent offers the captain five hundred dollars to testify against his old superior; he refuses and drives the man off.","predicament":"Someone starving refuses a fortune for betraying a person who was once their friend."},
{"chunk":779,"story":89,"summary":"The young man calls him a fool; then an agent tells the young man his uncle will restore him if he marries an heiress.","predicament":"Someone is offered their old life back on condition of a marriage they do not want."},
{"chunk":780,"story":89,"summary":"The young man refuses the heiress and her fortune, and the two join the midnight bread line together.","predicament":"Someone who would sell a friend refuses to sell themselves, and stays poor."},
{"chunk":781,"story":90,"summary":"The city swelters through a summer so hot that everyone talks of heat, baths and cool diets.","predicament":"People stuck in a hot city pretend they prefer it to the places they cannot afford."},
{"chunk":782,"story":90,"summary":"A harassed man insists loudly that the city is the finest summer resort, and refuses a friend's invitation to go fishing.","predicament":"Someone loudly praises the place they are stuck in to hide that they cannot leave."},
{"chunk":783,"story":90,"summary":"Alone at his desk he wonders about his friend's trout, and drifts into memory of a mountain summer long ago.","predicament":"Someone who denies wanting a thing can think of nothing else when alone."},
{"chunk":784,"story":90,"summary":"At a mountain hotel, two young men, one rich and one not, compete for the same beautiful young woman.","predicament":"Someone with little money competes against a rich rival for the same person."},
{"chunk":785,"story":90,"summary":"At a mock tournament she climbs a rock; he races his rich rival up the face and reaches her first to crown her.","predicament":"Someone outpaces a richer rival by effort and nerve for the person they love."},
{"chunk":786,"story":90,"summary":"His clerk wakes him at his desk; he insists again that the city beats the country, and turns to the letters.","predicament":"Someone wakes from a memory of what they gave up and repeats the story they tell."},
{"chunk":787,"story":90,"summary":"A letter from his wife reveals he stays in the hot city working so she and the sick children can stay in the mountains.","predicament":"Someone pretends to prefer hardship so the people they love will accept their sacrifice."},
{"chunk":788,"story":91,"summary":"Two young women share a cheap studio in an artists' quarter; in November pneumonia strikes one of them down.","predicament":"Someone far from home falls gravely ill with only a friend to care for them."},
{"chunk":789,"story":91,"summary":"The doctor says she has one chance in ten, and only if she wants to live; she has made up her mind to die.","predicament":"Someone gravely ill has given up, and their friend must find a reason for them to live."},
{"chunk":790,"story":91,"summary":"The sick girl lies counting the leaves falling from an old vine on the wall outside, and says she will die with the last.","predicament":"Someone fixes on a sign and ties their own survival to it."},
{"chunk":791,"story":91,"summary":"Her friend scolds her for the fancy and asks her to close her eyes; she says she is tired and wants to let go.","predicament":"Someone tries to talk another out of despair and cannot reach them."},
{"chunk":792,"story":91,"summary":"The friend goes down to an old drunken painter who has always promised a masterpiece, to ask him to pose.","predicament":"Someone asks help of a failure who has talked for decades of one great work."},
{"chunk":793,"story":91,"summary":"The old man scorns the fancy but agrees to pose; the two look fearfully at the vine as cold rain and snow begin.","predicament":"Someone gruff about another's weakness quietly resolves to help them."},
{"chunk":794,"story":91,"summary":"Next morning one leaf still clings to the wall; it survives another stormy night, and the girl watches it.","predicament":"Someone who expected the sign to fail watches it hold against all likelihood."},
{"chunk":795,"story":91,"summary":"She says it was wicked to want to die and asks for broth; the doctor mentions the old painter downstairs has pneumonia too.","predicament":"Someone recovers their will to live, not knowing the cost to another."},
{"chunk":796,"story":91,"summary":"Her friend tells her the old painter has died of pneumonia: he painted that last leaf on the wall the night the real one fell.","predicament":"Someone who never achieved their great work gives their life to make one small act of hope."},
{"chunk":797,"story":92,"summary":"A rising young man ignores a plain new boarder, until he sees her one evening dressed in deep mourning, beautiful and sad.","predicament":"Someone overlooked becomes interesting to another the moment they appear to be grieving."},
{"chunk":798,"story":92,"summary":"He speaks to her on the steps; she hints that death has claimed not a relative but someone closer, and he sympathises.","predicament":"Someone uses grief, real or not, to be noticed by a person they want."},
{"chunk":799,"story":92,"summary":"In the park she tells him her fiance was a real count with a castle, and that her father kept them apart.","predicament":"Someone tells an impressive story about a past love to someone they want to impress."},
{"chunk":800,"story":92,"summary":"The count, she says, was killed abroad and her heart lies in his grave; he resolves to be her friend and more.","predicament":"Someone claims a dead love to make themselves more desirable to a living one."},
{"chunk":801,"story":92,"summary":"She shows him the count's photograph in her locket and a larger one framed; he studies it with inscrutable eyes.","predicament":"Someone shows proof of a story to a person who recognises the proof."},
{"chunk":802,"story":92,"summary":"Engaged a month later, he turns gloomy and explains that a great political boss has promised to come to the wedding.","predicament":"Someone wants a powerful patron at their wedding but has a secret reason to keep them away."},
{"chunk":803,"story":92,"summary":"He says the patron must not come, for reasons he will not give, and asks whether she loves him as she loved the count.","predicament":"Someone asks their partner to choose them over a rival who may never have existed."},
{"chunk":804,"story":92,"summary":"She confesses she invented the count to wear becoming black; he forgives her, since the photograph was the political boss himself.","predicament":"Someone confesses a lie the other had already seen through and forgiven."},
{"chunk":805,"story":93,"summary":"A weary magazine sub-editor seeks relief in the artists' world of the city, and calls for a woman who belongs to it.","predicament":"Someone tired of their work seeks escape in a looser crowd."},
{"chunk":806,"story":93,"summary":"Her flat is strewn with the wreckage of last night's party; she appears radiant and they go to a famous bohemian restaurant.","predicament":"Someone lives in the careless disorder that their circle calls freedom."},
{"chunk":807,"story":93,"summary":"The restaurant's owner rose from a cheap eating-house by staging eccentricities that fashionable diners took for authentic bohemia.","predicament":"Someone grows rich by selling others an imitation of the freedom they crave."},
{"chunk":808,"story":93,"summary":"At the round table sit painters, poets and a mourning widow; the woman is one of the acknowledged princesses of their circle.","predicament":"Someone holds a high place in a circle whose rules demand constant performance."},
{"chunk":809,"story":93,"summary":"Dinner proceeds by courses of humour, wit, repartee and brag, each guest ready with their prepared performance.","predicament":"Someone must keep up with a crowd where every remark is a test."},
{"chunk":810,"story":93,"summary":"The strain of seeming at ease shows between her brows; freedom there is a tyrant that forbids anyone to object.","predicament":"Someone exhausts themselves keeping up the appearance of being free and easy."},
{"chunk":811,"story":93,"summary":"After the party she takes a midnight train to her parents' bare country cottage, and greets her stern father at sunrise.","predicament":"Someone leads a double life, escaping their free circle for a strict and silent home."},
{"chunk":812,"story":93,"summary":"She peels potatoes, lies about her work, and sits two hours on a hard chair hearing theology read aloud, blissfully happy.","predicament":"Someone finds rest in the rules and hardships that others would flee."},
{"chunk":813,"story":93,"summary":"The sermon damns her and she rejoices; that evening at dinner she tells her friends she has been away in bohemia.","predicament":"Someone escapes from freedom into strictness and calls that their holiday."},
{"chunk":814,"story":93,"summary":"When a painter tries to kiss her she slaps him hard, breaking the one law of their circle, and the party breaks up.","predicament":"Someone refreshed by strict rules breaks the unwritten rule of a permissive crowd."},
{"chunk":815,"story":93,"summary":"A village girl in the city, hearing the story, says that had the woman stayed home a week the painter would have got his kiss.","predicament":"Someone points out that the cure for one excess is simply too much of the other."}
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{"chunk":816,"story":94,"summary":"A miner back from the far north with a fortune sees a young woman in the homeward crowd and resolves at once to follow her.","predicament":"Someone with money and little time decides instantly on a stranger they have glimpsed."},
{"chunk":817,"story":94,"summary":"She catches her ferry, exhausted after a late dance and a trying day, and he gains the deck beside her.","predicament":"Someone tired and discouraged is approached at their weakest moment."},
{"chunk":818,"story":94,"summary":"He speaks; she takes him for a masher, then, seeing his sincerity, lets him sit and teases him about his name.","predicament":"Someone used to unwanted advances cautiously allows a sincere one."},
{"chunk":819,"story":94,"summary":"He earnestly describes the gold dust he has brought south; she mistakes his meaning, grows bored, and falls asleep on his shoulder.","predicament":"Someone pours out their heart to a person who cannot stay awake to hear it."},
{"chunk":820,"story":94,"summary":"He asks whether she would rather a husband had money or love; she cries 'Cash!' in her sleep, and wakes to find him gone.","predicament":"Someone loses a sincere suitor through a word spoken without meaning it."},
{"chunk":821,"story":95,"summary":"A ten-dollar note tells its own history, noting that the cultured seldom hold it long enough to learn its manners.","predicament":"Something passed from hand to hand has seen every kind of owner."},
{"chunk":822,"story":95,"summary":"In a butcher's purse it meets a limp five-dollar note that spent the day in a shop girl's stocking in the heat.","predicament":"Money earned by hard work arrives worn, while other money never touches it."},
{"chunk":823,"story":95,"summary":"It circulates fast through bars, a peddler's roll, a policeman's pocket and a gambling back room, and delights in it.","predicament":"Someone's fortune passes through every sort of hand, clean and dirty alike."},
{"chunk":824,"story":95,"summary":"A gambling-house owner rolls it into a wad for a night on the town, and a gold note says he will spend lavishly.","predicament":"Someone about to spend money freely has been refused the one use they wanted for it."},
{"chunk":825,"story":95,"summary":"The gambler offered a church fifty thousand and was refused as tainted, and now half the town follows him to drink it.","predicament":"Someone's offered gift is refused as dirty, and others gladly take it instead."},
{"chunk":826,"story":95,"summary":"At a cafe he asks whether the refused money will buy drink; at one o'clock a ragged woman comes in and stares at it.","predicament":"Someone desperate appears silently before a person who has money to spare."},
{"chunk":827,"story":95,"summary":"He bows and hands her the note; once a Treasury clerk who counted such notes, she thanks him and runs to a bakery.","predicament":"Someone who fell from a respectable post accepts help from a person society scorns."},
{"chunk":828,"story":95,"summary":"A dollar from her change reports she fed a sick, half-starved child and prayed; the ten says there is no such thing as tainted money.","predicament":"Someone's help does its good regardless of where the means came from."},
{"chunk":829,"story":96,"summary":"A young woman's father, an old cutter, dies after an accident, leaving her a dollar and his employer's letter offering help.","predicament":"Someone left alone with almost nothing holds a promise of help from a powerful stranger."},
{"chunk":830,"story":96,"summary":"Evicted, she rides downtown with her dollar and the letter to seek the firm, which has moved to an address she lacks.","predicament":"Someone sets out alone to find the one person who promised help."},
{"chunk":831,"story":96,"summary":"A kindly western rancher looking for a wife approaches her honestly; a policeman seizes him as a masher and drags him away.","predicament":"Someone is shielded from a genuine chance by a guardian who assumes the worst."},
{"chunk":832,"story":96,"summary":"Preferring to support herself, she is offered a companion's post by a kind lady, until an association agent forbids her to accept.","predicament":"Someone wanting to earn their own living is stopped by people claiming to protect them."},
{"chunk":833,"story":96,"summary":"She takes a cashier's place in a candy store, and a temperance crusader warns her that the sweets contain brandy.","predicament":"Someone takes honest work and is told it will damn others."},
{"chunk":834,"story":96,"summary":"She gives up the job at the crusader's urging, who drives off in her carriage; next she tries sewing theatrical costumes.","predicament":"Someone gives up work at a reformer's word and is left with nothing."},
{"chunk":835,"story":96,"summary":"A clergyman forbids her to sew costumes for the stage and promises only that the Lord will provide.","predicament":"Someone in need is advised by a moralist who offers nothing practical."},
{"chunk":836,"story":96,"summary":"Striking girls warn her off a factory job; at last she finds her father's employer, who welcomes her warmly and offers a place.","predicament":"Someone blocked from every honest job at last reaches the one person who promised help."},
{"chunk":837,"story":96,"summary":"He has her try on furs and a fine hat as a model, then telephones to reserve his usual private table for a new companion.","predicament":"Someone driven by every protector to the promised benefactor finds a predator waiting."},
{"chunk":838,"story":96,"summary":"The narrator blames the reformers and associations, compassionate in heart but reverent of money, for losing such girls every day.","predicament":"Someone well-meaning closes every honest door and leaves the poor only the dangerous one."}
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== 2. Claude hand situations vs 14B k-means groups (k = 60) ==
Claude assigned 475 of 839 scenes to 20 situations; the rest carry no recurring situation.
seed 24: ARI on assigned scenes +0.049; 52 candidate groups: median share of a group that is its commonest Claude situation 17%, median share with no situation 43%
how each Claude situation is scattered across the 14B groups at seed 24:
pose 52 scenes over 24 groups; largest single group holds 15%
benefactor 48 scenes over 24 groups; largest single group holds 19%
station 47 scenes over 22 groups; largest single group holds 23%
taken_for_granted 47 scenes over 29 groups; largest single group holds 11%
newcomer 32 scenes over 15 groups; largest single group holds 19%
easy_money 30 scenes over 21 groups; largest single group holds 13%
sacrifice 25 scenes over 16 groups; largest single group holds 12%
rival 24 scenes over 15 groups; largest single group holds 21%
price 23 scenes over 15 groups; largest single group holds 22%
despised 20 scenes over 14 groups; largest single group holds 20%
appearances 19 scenes over 13 groups; largest single group holds 21%
loyalty 19 scenes over 10 groups; largest single group holds 26%
sign 17 scenes over 9 groups; largest single group holds 35%
honest_work 15 scenes over 10 groups; largest single group holds 20%
strings 15 scenes over 14 groups; largest single group holds 13%
unspoken 13 scenes over 11 groups; largest single group holds 15%
overlooked 9 scenes over 7 groups; largest single group holds 33%
homecoming 8 scenes over 6 groups; largest single group holds 38%
patron 8 scenes over 7 groups; largest single group holds 25%
habit 4 scenes over 3 groups; largest single group holds 50%
the 14B candidate groups, purest first (share = scenes carrying the commonest Claude situation):
65% of 17 station also unspoken 2, pose 1, strings 1
62% of 13 pose also appearances 1, easy_money 1
60% of 10 sign also taken_for_granted 1, overlooked 1
56% of 9 price also benefactor 1
45% of 11 rival also station 1, patron 1, overlooked 1
43% of 14 newcomer also taken_for_granted 3, honest_work 1, habit 1
43% of 7 loyalty also taken_for_granted 1
41% of 22 benefactor also despised 4, sacrifice 2, station 1
37% of 19 pose also taken_for_granted 2, easy_money 1, station 1
33% of 6 loyalty also rival 1
27% of 11 price also newcomer 1
27% of 15 rival also easy_money 2, pose 1, appearances 1
25% of 8 unspoken also taken_for_granted 1
25% of 8 station also taken_for_granted 2
25% of 8 sacrifice also strings 1, pose 1, benefactor 1
24% of 21 loyalty also benefactor 3, sacrifice 3, honest_work 1
21% of 19 station also benefactor 3, sacrifice 2, despised 2
20% of 25 newcomer also station 2, benefactor 2, homecoming 1
20% of 15 loyalty also benefactor 2, despised 2, strings 1
20% of 10 easy_money also sacrifice 2, strings 1, benefactor 1
20% of 5 sacrifice
20% of 5 appearances also easy_money 1, benefactor 1
19% of 21 easy_money also station 3, pose 2, appearances 2
19% of 27 taken_for_granted also pose 3, station 2, easy_money 2
18% of 11 strings also sacrifice 2, unspoken 1, appearances 1
18% of 11 benefactor also easy_money 1, despised 1, station 1
17% of 6 rival also price 1, station 1, loyalty 1
16% of 19 taken_for_granted also newcomer 2, station 1, easy_money 1
16% of 19 pose also newcomer 1, benefactor 1, sign 1
15% of 13 habit also taken_for_granted 2, sacrifice 1
15% of 13 easy_money also honest_work 2, strings 1, sign 1
14% of 14 station also benefactor 2, taken_for_granted 1, unspoken 1
14% of 14 price also benefactor 2, honest_work 1, newcomer 1
14% of 14 benefactor also pose 2, loyalty 1, sacrifice 1
13% of 15 taken_for_granted also pose 2, patron 2, easy_money 1
13% of 23 easy_money also benefactor 3, despised 2, homecoming 1
12% of 16 rival also strings 1, unspoken 1, station 1
12% of 17 sacrifice also unspoken 1, easy_money 1, rival 1
11% of 27 pose also benefactor 2, rival 2, appearances 2
11% of 18 station also benefactor 2, sacrifice 2, taken_for_granted 1
11% of 18 sign also benefactor 2, rival 1, easy_money 1
11% of 18 price also taken_for_granted 2, station 1, strings 1
11% of 9 strings also taken_for_granted 1, despised 1
11% of 9 price also pose 1, patron 1
11% of 37 station also newcomer 4, pose 4, overlooked 3
11% of 19 honest_work also appearances 2, newcomer 2, unspoken 1
10% of 20 newcomer also strings 1, benefactor 1, sign 1
10% of 42 appearances also station 3, homecoming 3, sign 3
10% of 21 pose also benefactor 2, newcomer 2, strings 1
9% of 11 honest_work also price 1, easy_money 1, loyalty 1
7% of 14 homecoming
0% of 5 -
seed 11: ARI on assigned scenes +0.051; 55 candidate groups: median share of a group that is its commonest Claude situation 20%, median share with no situation 42%
seed 12: ARI on assigned scenes +0.046; 52 candidate groups: median share of a group that is its commonest Claude situation 20%, median share with no situation 42%
seed 13: ARI on assigned scenes +0.049; 51 candidate groups: median share of a group that is its commonest Claude situation 17%, median share with no situation 42%
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== 1. Predicament text (839 scenes each) ==
claude median words 14 over 20 words 0 with a topic word 8.3% with a place word 3.6% capitalised mid-sentence 0 starts "Someone" 88%
commonest topic words: room 13, rival 11, partner 10, suitor 5, street 5, judge 4, station 3, house 3, employer 3, court 2, neighbour 2, stage 2
qwen3:14b raw median words 24 over 20 words 709 with a topic word 23.0% with a place word 10.1% capitalised mid-sentence 110 starts "Someone" 0%
commonest topic words: wife 16, lover 10, husband 9, street 9, restaurant 9, room 8, writer 7, stage 6, dinner 6, cop 5, park 5, hotel 5
qwen3:14b after strip_names median words 24 over 20 words 707 with a topic word 23.0% with a place word 10.1% capitalised mid-sentence 35 starts "Someone" 20%
commonest topic words: wife 16, lover 10, husband 9, street 9, restaurant 9, room 8, writer 7, stage 6, dinner 6, cop 5, park 5, hotel 5
== 2. Claude hand situations vs 14B k-means groups (k = 60) ==
Claude assigned 475 of 839 scenes to 20 situations; the rest carry no recurring situation.
seed 24: ARI on assigned scenes +0.075; 40 candidate groups: median share of a group that is its commonest Claude situation 20%, median share with no situation 41%
how each Claude situation is scattered across the 14B groups at seed 24:
pose 52 scenes over 23 groups; largest single group holds 15%
benefactor 48 scenes over 21 groups; largest single group holds 17%
station 47 scenes over 19 groups; largest single group holds 30%
taken_for_granted 47 scenes over 25 groups; largest single group holds 30%
newcomer 32 scenes over 16 groups; largest single group holds 38%
easy_money 30 scenes over 15 groups; largest single group holds 17%
sacrifice 25 scenes over 16 groups; largest single group holds 24%
rival 24 scenes over 12 groups; largest single group holds 33%
price 23 scenes over 10 groups; largest single group holds 22%
despised 20 scenes over 18 groups; largest single group holds 10%
appearances 19 scenes over 10 groups; largest single group holds 21%
loyalty 19 scenes over 9 groups; largest single group holds 32%
sign 17 scenes over 9 groups; largest single group holds 24%
honest_work 15 scenes over 8 groups; largest single group holds 40%
strings 15 scenes over 11 groups; largest single group holds 13%
unspoken 13 scenes over 11 groups; largest single group holds 15%
overlooked 9 scenes over 8 groups; largest single group holds 22%
homecoming 8 scenes over 6 groups; largest single group holds 38%
patron 8 scenes over 7 groups; largest single group holds 25%
habit 4 scenes over 4 groups; largest single group holds 25%
the 14B candidate groups, purest first (share = scenes carrying the commonest Claude situation):
61% of 23 taken_for_granted also unspoken 1, sacrifice 1
50% of 6 price also station 1
40% of 15 honest_work also sacrifice 2, easy_money 1, unspoken 1
38% of 32 newcomer also benefactor 2, pose 1, homecoming 1
33% of 15 easy_money also benefactor 4, despised 1
33% of 12 appearances also easy_money 2, newcomer 1, pose 1
33% of 9 easy_money also appearances 2, newcomer 1, honest_work 1
27% of 15 easy_money also loyalty 1, despised 1, station 1
25% of 16 pose also price 1, station 1, taken_for_granted 1
23% of 60 station also pose 8, rival 8, sacrifice 2
23% of 13 station also benefactor 2, homecoming 1, newcomer 1
22% of 9 pose also taken_for_granted 1
22% of 9 overlooked also patron 2, honest_work 1, rival 1
21% of 28 loyalty also pose 3, homecoming 3, station 2
21% of 19 pose also strings 2, station 2, easy_money 2
21% of 29 benefactor also strings 2, loyalty 2, sacrifice 1
20% of 35 pose also price 4, appearances 3, despised 2
20% of 25 easy_money also loyalty 3, newcomer 2, strings 1
20% of 5 overlooked also rival 1
20% of 5 overlooked also taken_for_granted 1, station 1, patron 1
20% of 5 benefactor also newcomer 1, despised 1
19% of 42 benefactor also station 3, sign 3, pose 3
18% of 22 sign also station 3, price 2, habit 1
18% of 17 appearances also rival 2, strings 1, pose 1
17% of 6 pose also overlooked 1
16% of 19 pose also station 1, strings 1, taken_for_granted 1
16% of 32 benefactor also strings 2, loyalty 2, appearances 1
15% of 13 taken_for_granted also station 2, newcomer 2, benefactor 1
15% of 34 price also station 4, pose 3, rival 3
14% of 7 taken_for_granted
13% of 15 strings also benefactor 2, unspoken 1, easy_money 1
13% of 15 rival also despised 2, sign 1, pose 1
12% of 8 strings also taken_for_granted 1, benefactor 1, patron 1
12% of 25 sacrifice also price 3, newcomer 2, station 2
12% of 34 benefactor also taken_for_granted 3, newcomer 3, honest_work 2
11% of 9 despised also benefactor 1, newcomer 1, price 1
10% of 21 loyalty also benefactor 1, easy_money 1, honest_work 1
9% of 11 sign also easy_money 1
8% of 13 patron also easy_money 1, appearances 1, pose 1
6% of 31 station also sign 2, honest_work 1, appearances 1
seed 11: ARI on assigned scenes +0.061; 42 candidate groups: median share of a group that is its commonest Claude situation 20%, median share with no situation 41%
seed 12: ARI on assigned scenes +0.071; 45 candidate groups: median share of a group that is its commonest Claude situation 20%, median share with no situation 41%
seed 13: ARI on assigned scenes +0.060; 42 candidate groups: median share of a group that is its commonest Claude situation 19%, median share with no situation 40%
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"""Compare Claude's hand pass with the local pipeline, on files already on disk. No inference.
cd probe/v2 && python3 claude/compare.py > claude/compare.log
1. Text: leakage of topic words (jobs, relationships, places) and capitalised names into the
one-sentence predicaments, Claude vs qwen3:14b (same prompt rules).
2. Grouping: Claude's hand situations vs the k-means groups on the 14B predicament embeddings
(k = 60; seed 24 is the review seed, 11-13 the measurement seeds).
"""
import collections, json, math, pathlib, re, statistics, sys
HERE = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent
sys.path.insert(0, str(HERE)); sys.path.insert(0, str(HERE.parent.parent))
from assign import ASSIGN
from topic_words import TOPIC_WORDS, PLACE_WORDS
chunks = json.load(open('chunks.json'))
n = len(chunks)
mine = {x['chunk']: x['summary'] for x in json.load(open(HERE / 'predicaments-claude.json'))['summaries']}
q14 = {x['chunk']: x['summary'] for x in json.load(open('predicaments_clean.json'))['summaries']}
q14raw = {x['chunk']: x.get('raw', x['summary']) for x in json.load(open('predicaments.json'))['summaries']}
def words(s): return re.findall(r"[a-zé']+", s.lower())
def caps_mid(s):
toks = re.findall(r"[A-Za-z']+", s)
return [t for t in toks[1:] if t[0].isupper() and t not in ('I',)]
print('== 1. Predicament text (839 scenes each) ==')
for name, d in (('claude', mine), ('qwen3:14b raw', q14raw), ('qwen3:14b after strip_names', q14)):
tw = [set(words(d[i])) & TOPIC_WORDS for i in range(n)]
pw = [set(words(d[i])) & PLACE_WORDS for i in range(n)]
cm = [caps_mid(d[i]) for i in range(n)]
lens = [len(d[i].split()) for i in range(n)]
some = sum(1 for i in range(n) if d[i].lower().startswith('someone'))
print(f'{name:30s} median words {statistics.median(lens):>4} over 20 words {sum(l > 20 for l in lens):>3} '
f'with a topic word {sum(bool(x) for x in tw)/n:5.1%} with a place word {sum(bool(x) for x in pw)/n:5.1%} '
f'capitalised mid-sentence {sum(bool(x) for x in cm):>3} starts "Someone" {some/n:5.0%}')
top = collections.Counter(w for x in tw for w in x).most_common(12)
print(' ' * 32 + 'commonest topic words: ' + ', '.join(f'{w} {c}' for w, c in top))
# ---- 2. grouping agreement --------------------------------------------------------------
import os; EMB_FILE = os.environ.get('EMB_FILE', 'predicament_embeddings.json'); print('embeddings:', EMB_FILE); sys.argv = ['measure.py', EMB_FILE]
src = (HERE.parent.parent / 'measure.py').read_text(encoding='utf-8').split("print(f'{path.name}")[0]
exec(src) # defines V, story, kmeans, describe, MIN_SIZE, MIN_STORIES, MAX_DOMINANT
def ari(labels_a, labels_b):
pairs = collections.Counter(zip(labels_a, labels_b))
a = collections.Counter(labels_a); b = collections.Counter(labels_b)
c2 = lambda x: x * (x - 1) / 2
idx = sum(c2(v) for v in pairs.values()); sa = sum(c2(v) for v in a.values()); sb = sum(c2(v) for v in b.values())
exp = sa * sb / c2(len(labels_a)); mx = (sa + sb) / 2
return (idx - exp) / (mx - exp) if mx != exp else 0.0
print('\n== 2. Claude hand situations vs 14B k-means groups (k = 60) ==')
print(f'Claude assigned {len(ASSIGN)} of {n} scenes to {len(set(ASSIGN.values()))} situations; the rest carry no recurring situation.')
for seed in (24, 11, 12, 13):
groups = kmeans(60, seed)
lab = {}
for gi, g in enumerate(groups):
for i in g: lab[i] = gi
assigned = sorted(ASSIGN)
a = ari([ASSIGN[i] for i in assigned], [lab[i] for i in assigned])
cand = [g for g in groups if (lambda s: s[0] >= MIN_SIZE and s[1] >= MIN_STORIES and s[2] <= MAX_DOMINANT)(describe(g))]
purities, unassigned = [], []
for g in cand:
sits = collections.Counter(ASSIGN[i] for i in g if i in ASSIGN)
purities.append(sits.most_common(1)[0][1] / len(g) if sits else 0.0)
unassigned.append(sum(1 for i in g if i not in ASSIGN) / len(g))
print(f'seed {seed:>2}: ARI on assigned scenes {a:+.3f}; {len(cand)} candidate groups: median share of a group that is its '
f'commonest Claude situation {statistics.median(purities):.0%}, median share with no situation {statistics.median(unassigned):.0%}')
if seed == 24:
spread = {}
for s in sorted(set(ASSIGN.values())):
mem = [i for i in ASSIGN if ASSIGN[i] == s]
cl = collections.Counter(lab[i] for i in mem)
spread[s] = (len(mem), len(cl), cl.most_common(1)[0][1] / len(mem))
print(' how each Claude situation is scattered across the 14B groups at seed 24:')
for s, (m, k, top) in sorted(spread.items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1][0]):
print(f' {s:18s} {m:3d} scenes over {k:2d} groups; largest single group holds {top:4.0%}')
rows = []
for g in cand:
sits = collections.Counter(ASSIGN[i] for i in g if i in ASSIGN)
top = sits.most_common(1)[0] if sits else ('-', 0)
rows.append((top[1] / len(g), len(g), top[0], sits))
print(' the 14B candidate groups, purest first (share = scenes carrying the commonest Claude situation):')
for share, size, s, sits in sorted(rows, reverse=True):
other = ', '.join(f'{k} {v}' for k, v in sits.most_common()[1:4])
print(f' {share:4.0%} of {size:2d} {s:18s} {("also " + other) if other else ""}')
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Print a range of scenes for reading. Usage: dump.py <first_chunk> <last_chunk>"""
import json, sys
chunks = json.load(open(__file__.rsplit('/',2)[0] + '/chunks.json'))
a, b = int(sys.argv[1]), int(sys.argv[2])
cur = None
for i in range(a, min(b + 1, len(chunks))):
c = chunks[i]
if c['story'] != cur:
cur = c['story']
print(f"\n########## STORY {cur}: {c['title']} ##########")
print(f"\n----- scene {i} (story {cur}) -----")
print(c['text'].strip())
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"""Build claude-reference.html from the Claude pass and the pipeline's files. No inference.
cd probe/v2 && python3 claude/report_page.py
"""
import json, pathlib, re, statistics, collections, sys
HERE = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent
sys.path.insert(0, str(HERE)); sys.path.insert(0, str(HERE.parent.parent))
from assign import ASSIGN
from topic_words import TOPIC_WORDS, PLACE_WORDS
chunks = json.load(open('chunks.json'))
n = len(chunks)
cp = {x['chunk']: x['summary'] for x in json.load(open(HERE / 'predicaments-claude.json'))['summaries']}
cs = {x['chunk']: x['summary'] for x in json.load(open(HERE / 'summaries-claude.json'))['summaries']}
qp = {x['chunk']: x['summary'] for x in json.load(open('predicaments_clean.json'))['summaries']}
qpraw = {x['chunk']: x.get('raw', x['summary']) for x in json.load(open('predicaments.json'))['summaries']}
qs = {x['chunk']: x['summary'] for x in json.load(open('summaries_clean.json'))['summaries']}
sit = json.load(open(HERE / 'situations-claude.json'))
def w(s): return re.findall(r"[a-zé']+", s.lower())
def caps(s): return [t for t in re.findall(r"[A-Za-z']+", s)[1:] if t[0].isupper() and t != 'I']
text = []
for name, d in (('Claude (claude-opus-5)', cp), ('qwen3:14b, as generated', qpraw), ('qwen3:14b after strip_names.py', qp)):
tw = [set(w(d[i])) & TOPIC_WORDS for i in range(n)]
text.append(dict(name=name, median=statistics.median(len(d[i].split()) for i in range(n)),
over=sum(len(d[i].split()) > 20 for i in range(n)), topic=sum(bool(x) for x in tw) / n,
place=sum(bool(set(w(d[i])) & PLACE_WORDS) for i in range(n)) / n, caps=sum(bool(caps(d[i])) for i in range(n)),
top=', '.join(f'{k} {v}' for k, v in collections.Counter(x for s in tw for x in s).most_common(8))))
# grouping numbers come from compare.log so the page never disagrees with the log
log = (HERE / 'compare.log').read_text()
ari = [dict(seed=int(m[0]), ari=float(m[1]), groups=int(m[2]), purity=int(m[3]), none=int(m[4])) for m in
re.findall(r"seed\s+(\d+): ARI on assigned scenes ([+-][\d.]+); (\d+) candidate groups: median share of a group that is its commonest Claude situation (\d+)%, median share with no situation (\d+)%", log)]
spread = [(m[0], int(m[1]), int(m[2]), int(m[3])) for m in re.findall(r"^\s+(\w+)\s+(\d+) scenes over\s+(\d+) groups; largest single group holds\s+(\d+)%", log, re.M)]
assert len(ari) == 4 and len(spread) == 20, (len(ari), len(spread))
scenes = [dict(chunk=i, title=chunks[i]['title'], cp=cp[i], cs=cs[i], qp=qp[i], qs=qs[i], sit=ASSIGN.get(i, '')) for i in range(n)]
n_sit = len(sit['situations']); passing = sum(s['passes_pipeline_candidate_rule'] for s in sit['situations'])
events = sum(len(s['events']) for s in sit['situations']); opts = sum(len(e['options']) for s in sit['situations'] for e in s['events'])
facts = [(f'{n}', 'scenes described, 97 stories'), (f'{len(ASSIGN)}', f'scenes carrying a recurring situation ({len(ASSIGN)/n:.0%})'),
(f'{passing} of {n_sit}', 'situations pass the pipeline’s candidate rule'), (f'{events} · {opts}', 'draft events · options'),
(f"{ari[0]['ari']:.2f}", 'agreement with the 14B groups (ARI, seed 24)')]
caveat = ("<p><b>What this does and does not show.</b> The hand grouping is one careful reader’s judgment, not ground truth. "
"It is, however, the kind of reading the pipeline is trying to automate, and the 14B groups barely track it: a median 14B candidate group is "
f"{ari[0]['purity']}% one hand situation and {ari[0]['none']}% scenes with no recurring situation at all. This comparison cannot say whether the fault is the "
"14B predicament text or the embed-and-cluster step. The way to separate them is to embed <i>these</i> 839 predicaments with nomic-embed-text and run the same "
"k-means. That needs the inference host, so it has not been run.</p>"
"<p><b>A caveat on my own text:</b> 88% of my predicaments begin “Someone”. That shared opener is harmless to a reader, but "
"DESIGN.md already flags “someone” as a token that could pull embeddings together, so it may make my file look more alike to an embedder than it reads.</p>")
method = ("<p><b>Scenes.</b> <code>probe/v2/chunks.json</code>, 839 scenes from 97 stories, read in order, one story at a time, in 19 batches. Each scene got a "
"summary under the qwen2.5:3b summary prompt (one sentence, at most 25 words, roles not names, no places) and a predicament under the qwen3:14b redescribe "
"prompt (one sentence, at most 20 words, no names, jobs, places, businesses or story-specific objects). I kept names out as I wrote; nothing was "
"stripped afterwards. Every record was checked for length and story id.</p>"
"<p><b>Grouping.</b> By hand, from the predicaments and summaries together (<code>claude/assign.py</code>). Each scene gets at most one situation. "
"364 scenes carry none: essays, set-ups and one-off turns. No embeddings and no clustering were used.</p>"
"<p><b>Events.</b> One event per situation, with the benefactor split in two, because the side you stand on changes every option. The options are "
"tagged <code>scene</code> (taken from a named scene), <code>archetype</code> (the fixed moves DESIGN.md calls for, such as “say nothing”) or "
"<code>gap</code> (written to fill a hole). Descriptions are generic second person, with the scenes they came from. Sizes are advisory priors for the "
"numeric search. <code>claude/situations_src.py</code> checks option counts, paths, capitalised names and duplicate effect sets.</p>"
"<p><b>Comparison.</b> <code>claude/compare.py</code> uses only files already on disk. No model was called for any of it.</p>"
"<p><b>Files</b>, all in <code>probe/v2/claude/</code>: <code>summaries-claude.json</code> and <code>predicaments-claude.json</code> "
"(same shape as the pipeline's), <code>assign.py</code>, <code>situations-claude.json</code>, <code>compare.log</code>, this page.</p>")
foot = "Corpus: O. Henry, The Four Million cycle (Project Gutenberg, public domain). Built by <code>claude/report_page.py</code>."
data = dict(facts=facts, situations=sit, text=text, ari=ari, spread=spread, caveat=caveat, scenes=scenes, method=method, foot=foot)
blob = json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False).replace('</', '<\\/')
html = (HERE / 'report_template.html').read_text().replace('__DATA__', blob)
(HERE / 'claude-reference.html').write_text(html, encoding='utf-8')
print('wrote claude/claude-reference.html', len(html) // 1024, 'KB')
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<div class="eyebrow">story-to-pack · reference pass · 2026-09-17</div>
<h1>The Four Million, read by hand</h1>
<p class="lede">Every one of the 839 scenes in the v2 O. Henry corpus, described by Claude under the same rules the local models were given, then grouped into recurring situations and turned into draft events with options. It is a yardstick for the pipeline and for qwen3:14b, not a pack.</p>
<div class="facts" id="facts"></div>
</header>
<nav class="jump" aria-label="Sections">
<a href="#situations">Situations &amp; options</a>
<a href="#compare">Against the local pipeline</a>
<a href="#scenes">All 839 scenes</a>
<a href="#method">How this was made</a>
</nav>
<section id="situations">
<h2>Situations the corpus keeps returning to</h2>
<p>Twenty groups. Sixteen pass the pipeline's own candidate rule: at least five scenes, at least four stories, and no story over 40%. The other four are real but narrow, and are marked. Each group becomes one event (two for the benefactor, one per side) with three to five options. Effects name a state path, a direction and a rough size, never a number, as DESIGN.md requires.</p>
<div class="note" id="spine"></div>
<div class="sitlist" id="sitlist"></div>
</section>
<section id="compare">
<h2>Against the local pipeline</h2>
<h3 style="margin-top:8px">One-sentence predicaments, same rules, 839 scenes each</h3>
<p>The prompt asked for at most 20 words and no names, jobs, professions, places or businesses. Topic words are the pipeline's own <code>topic_words.py</code> list, which also counts relationship words.</p>
<div class="tablewrap"><table id="texttable"></table></div>
<h3 style="margin-top:22px">Do the 14B groups find these situations?</h3>
<p>These are the k-means groups on the qwen3:14b predicament embeddings at k = 60, compared with the hand grouping over the 475 scenes that carry a situation. An adjusted Rand index of 0 means chance agreement and 1 means identical groups.</p>
<div class="tablewrap"><table id="aritable"></table></div>
<p>At the review seed (24), each hand situation is spread across many 14B groups:</p>
<div class="tablewrap"><table id="spreadtable"></table></div>
<div class="note" id="caveat"></div>
</section>
<section id="scenes">
<h2>All 839 scenes, side by side</h2>
<p>Claude's summary and predicament next to the pipeline's (qwen2.5:3b summary, qwen3:14b predicament). Filter by situation or story, or search any of the four texts.</p>
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<label for="f-sit">Situation<select id="f-sit"></select></label>
<label for="f-story">Story<select id="f-story"></select></label>
<label for="f-q">Search<input type="search" id="f-q" placeholder="word in any text"></label>
<span class="count" id="f-count"></span>
</div>
<div class="scenes" id="scenelist"></div>
<button class="more" id="more" type="button">Show 40 more</button>
</section>
<section id="method">
<h2>How this was made</h2>
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</section>
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"""Claude's situations and options for the O. Henry corpus, as data. Run to validate and write situations-claude.json.
Written by hand in-session (claude-opus-5), 2026-09-17. Per DESIGN.md the numbers are left to the search: each
effect names a path, a direction and a rough size (small / medium / large), never a value.
"""
import json, re, sys, pathlib, collections
HERE = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent
sys.path.insert(0, str(HERE))
from assign import ASSIGN
PLAYER_ROLE = "a young clerk newly arrived in the big city, on eighteen dollars a week"
STAGES = {
"rooming_house": "No standing yet: a hall bedroom, a counter job, the park bench is never far off.",
"counter": "A steady place: a raise, a regular table, people who know your name.",
"swell": "Money and a place among the well-dressed; what the city charges for staying there.",
}
CAST = {
"sweetheart": "the one you court",
"partner": "the one you married, or live with",
"rival": "whoever wants what you want",
"employer": "the boss, the firm",
"patron": "someone powerful above you: the district leader, the rich benefactor",
"pal": "a friend from your own level",
"landlady": "the house you lodge in",
"officer": "the law, on the beat",
"stranger": "the plausible stranger: swell, sharper or tramp",
}
REL_STATS = {"trusts_you", "likes_you", "wary_of_you", "owes_you"}
SKILLS = {"skills.front": "bluff, manners, looking the part (the corpus's own word: 'front does it')",
"skills.nerve": "daring, the stomach to act"}
def e(path, d, size): return {"path": path, "dir": d, "size": size}
def note(text): return {"path": "notable", "push": text}
def flag(name): return {"path": "flags." + name, "set": True}
EVENTS = [
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dict(id="pose", situation="pose", title="Passing for more than you are",
sentence="A young person of small means wants to be taken for someone grander by a stranger they want to impress.",
roles=["you", "sweetheart"], stages=["rooming_house", "counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="Ten weeks of putting a dollar aside have bought one evening in good clothes. At the corner a young woman slips on the ice, and when you help her up she takes you, plainly, for what the clothes say you are.", sources=[603, 604, 605, 606]),
dict(text="The stranger across the table has just told you something about themselves that is a little too good to be true. You have one ready that is better.", sources=[46, 402, 404, 799]),
dict(text="The present you can afford and the present you want to be seen giving are two different things, and there is a shop two streets over that sells a very good copy of the second.", sources=[722, 723, 726]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Tell them what you really are.", result="The evening is smaller than you planned. It is also the only part of it you get to keep.",
effects=[e("relationships.sweetheart.trusts_you", "+", "medium"), e("skills.front", "-", "small"), note("Told the truth on the one evening it cost something.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[139, 140, 610])),
dict(label="Play the part the clothes promise.", result="Clubs, a yacht you have never seen, a friend with a famous name. It goes over well. Once, you catch a look of disappointment.",
effects=[e("skills.front", "+", "medium"), e("relationships.sweetheart.likes_you", "+", "small"), e("relationships.sweetheart.trusts_you", "-", "medium"), flag("passed_for_a_swell")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[404, 608, 800])),
dict(label="Spend what the part would really cost.", result="It is real money, and for one evening it buys the real thing.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "large"), e("standing", "+", "small"), e("relationships.sweetheart.likes_you", "+", "medium")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[135, 139, 723])),
dict(label="Say little and let them decide.", result="You neither claim nor deny. What they make of you is theirs to be wrong about.",
effects=[e("skills.front", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="archetype", chunks=[])),
]),
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dict(id="benefactor_offered", situation="benefactor", title="Help with a sermon attached",
sentence="A well-off benefactor wants to do good to you on their own terms, and help comes with a price in pride.",
roles=["you", "patron"], stages=["rooming_house"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="There is a free bed tonight, fifteen cents' worth, if you stand in the line and hear the man on the box out. It is cold enough that the man on the box knows it.", sources=[234, 509]),
dict(text="You had the job, or nearly. Then a lady from an association explained why you must not take it, and drove away in her carriage.", sources=[832, 833, 834, 835]),
dict(text="A well-dressed stranger has asked you to dine. You know the price of dinner by now: your story, from the beginning, told the way he wants it.", sources=[649, 651, 440]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Take it, and pay in the coin they ask.", result="You tell them what they came to hear. The meal is excellent, and afterwards you feel you have sold something.",
effects=[e("money", "+", "small"), e("skills.front", "+", "small"), e("standing", "-", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[651, 652])),
dict(label="Refuse it.", result="Pride is warm for about an hour.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "small"), e("skills.nerve", "+", "small"), e("relationships.patron.wary_of_you", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[441, 509])),
dict(label="Take the help, and tell them the plain truth instead.", result="It is not the story they wanted. It is the one they remember.",
effects=[e("relationships.patron.trusts_you", "+", "medium"), e("money", "+", "small"), note("Told a benefactor the truth over dinner.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[652, 653])),
dict(label="Find your own way round it.", result="It takes longer and costs more, and nobody lectures you.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "small"), e("skills.nerve", "+", "small"), e("standing", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="gap", chunks=[])),
]),
dict(id="benefactor_playing", situation="benefactor", title="Playing the benefactor",
sentence="You, with money to spare, want to do good to someone below you, and want to see it done.",
roles=["you", "stranger", "patron"], stages=["swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="Money is coming in faster than you can find uses for it. Your last gift to an institution came back as three lines in the evening paper with your name misspelled. You want, this once, to see somebody's face.", sources=[361, 362, 363]),
dict(text="Down past the shopping district you own a row of houses you have never been inside. Somebody has finally told you what it is like to live in one.", sources=[704, 710, 711, 712]),
dict(text="A young man is throwing silver into the street for a crowd to scramble after, with a face like a funeral. You could ask him why.", sources=[340, 341, 342]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Write a cheque to an institution and be done.", result="It is received, acknowledged and misprinted.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "medium"), e("standing", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[362])),
dict(label="Go down and hand it out yourself.", result="Somebody already owns the gratitude in that neighbourhood, and explains this to you between a barber's pole and the ash cans.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "small"), e("relationships.patron.wary_of_you", "+", "medium"), e("skills.nerve", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[363, 364])),
dict(label="Fix the thing you own.", result="It costs a year of what the houses bring in. Nobody thanks you. The girls on the ground floor have a parlour.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "large"), e("standing", "+", "small"), flag("fixed_the_row"), note("Gave the tenants their parlours back.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[712])),
dict(label="Ask what they want before you give anything.", result="The answer is small, specific and cheap, and nothing like what you had in mind.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "small"), e("relationships.stranger.trusts_you", "+", "medium")], source=dict(kind="gap", chunks=[439, 442])),
]),
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dict(id="taken_for_granted", situation="taken_for_granted", title="The one you stopped noticing",
sentence="A partner at home wants to be noticed by the person who has stopped seeing them.",
roles=["you", "partner", "pal"], stages=["counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="You know how tonight will go: the supper, the paper, and at a quarter past eight you reach for your hat. Tonight there is a note pinned to the gas jet instead.", sources=[665, 666, 667]),
dict(text="Three years, and this morning the one you married asked you, quite calmly, to take them out to dinner.", sources=[24, 25]),
dict(text="Upstairs they fight on Saturdays and make it up with presents. Downstairs you read the paper in your stocking feet, and the one you married has begun to look at you as though that were worse.", sources=[759, 761, 762]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Go out as usual.", result="Nothing is said. Nothing needs to be; it has all been said before.",
effects=[e("relationships.partner.likes_you", "-", "medium"), e("relationships.pal.likes_you", "+", "small"), e("money", "-", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[666, 671])),
dict(label="Take them somewhere good.", result="You watch a room turn toward them, and you sit there with nothing to say, ashamed of three years.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "medium"), e("relationships.partner.likes_you", "+", "large"), e("standing", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[26, 27, 28])),
dict(label="Promise to do better.", result="You mean it at eight. By a quarter past you are less sure.",
effects=[e("relationships.partner.trusts_you", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[670, 671])),
dict(label="Do the job nobody asked you to.", result="It is not what was wanted, and it is noticed.",
effects=[e("relationships.partner.likes_you", "+", "small"), e("skills.nerve", "-", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[764])),
]),
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dict(id="station", situation="station", title="Across the gap in station",
sentence="Someone above or below you in station wants you, and each of you must decide how much to show of where you really stand.",
roles=["you", "sweetheart"], stages=["rooming_house", "counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="The one you want is far outside your circle and there is no proper way to be introduced. There is a counter, and a card, and a street corner at half past seven.", sources=[17, 18]),
dict(text="You met on an excursion boat. They take you for exactly what you appear to be, and you have not corrected them.", sources=[366, 368, 705, 706]),
dict(text="Your partner, born to everything, has found a letter from your people and announced that the two of you will go and visit them.", sources=[67, 68]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Show them where you live.", result="The shabby thing turns out to be the thing they wanted to see.",
effects=[e("relationships.sweetheart.trusts_you", "+", "medium"), e("skills.front", "-", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[70, 71, 73])),
dict(label="Keep to neutral ground.", result="Street corners and park benches. It works, and goes on working, until somebody asks why.",
effects=[e("relationships.sweetheart.likes_you", "+", "small"), flag("courting_on_street_corners")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[18, 711])),
dict(label="Describe the life you are offering.", result="You paint it with care. They hear something else entirely.",
effects=[e("skills.front", "+", "small"), e("relationships.sweetheart.trusts_you", "-", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[20, 21, 22])),
dict(label="Tell them the gap plainly and let them choose.", result="They take longer to answer than you would like.",
effects=[e("relationships.sweetheart.trusts_you", "+", "small"), e("skills.nerve", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[374])),
]),
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dict(id="newcomer", situation="newcomer", title="The city that does not notice you",
sentence="A newcomer wants a foothold in a place that neither sees them nor lets them stay as they were.",
roles=["you", "pal", "stranger"], stages=["rooming_house", "counter"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="All afternoon nobody has looked at you. Not one face in ten thousand. You would take a kick, by now, for the company.", sources=[715, 716, 101]),
dict(text="An old friend from home has done well here, and orders for both of you in a language you do not speak. He says the place is comfortable. He says it as though apologising.", sources=[273, 274, 275, 431]),
dict(text="What impressed them back home is in a trunk under the bed. Here it has not impressed anybody.", sources=[83, 157, 158]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Do as the place does.", result="It pays. Some weeks later you notice you order the small drink too.",
effects=[e("money", "+", "small"), e("standing", "+", "small"), e("skills.front", "+", "small"), e("skills.nerve", "-", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[432, 433])),
dict(label="Refuse to be made over.", result="You say so, loudly and often. At midnight you sit at the window a long time.",
effects=[e("skills.nerve", "+", "small"), e("standing", "-", "small"), note("Swore the city would never change you.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[434, 435])),
dict(label="Stop a stranger and ask.", result="It fails twice, and then it does not.",
effects=[e("relationships.stranger.likes_you", "+", "small"), e("skills.nerve", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[718, 719])),
dict(label="Go home.", result="It is still there, and smaller than you remember.",
effects=[e("standing", "-", "medium"), e("money", "+", "small"), flag("went_home")], source=dict(kind="archetype", chunks=[89, 147, 164])),
]),
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dict(id="easy_money", situation="easy_money", title="The sure thing",
sentence="A plausible stranger wants your money, and offers a sure thing to get it.",
roles=["you", "stranger", "landlady", "pal"], stages=["rooming_house", "counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="A great man wants a painting he cannot find and would pay anything for it. Walking home after, you pass a pawnshop, and there it is in the window.", sources=[222, 223, 224]),
dict(text="The man who pulled you out of the traffic and dusted your hat has a friend in the government who can arrange everything. Keep the drafts in your inside pocket, he says, till tomorrow.", sources=[210, 211, 212]),
dict(text="Somebody you hardly know has a scheme that pays ten thousand and needs only a little nerve and a little of your money to start.", sources=[267, 268]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Put your money in.", result="It was a sure thing. It was sure for somebody.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "large"), e("skills.nerve", "+", "small"), note("Bought the sure thing.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[224, 225])),
dict(label="Say you will look again tomorrow, in daylight.", result="By morning the great man is abroad, and so is the chance.",
effects=[e("skills.front", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="archetype", chunks=[])),
dict(label="Ask somebody with no stake in it.", result="The person you ask has watched a great many sure things walk out of the front door.",
effects=[e("relationships.landlady.trusts_you", "+", "small"), e("relationships.stranger.wary_of_you", "+", "medium")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[215])),
dict(label="Run the game yourself.", result="It works, and pays, and afterwards there is a kind of face you cannot quite look at.",
effects=[e("money", "+", "medium"), e("skills.front", "+", "medium"), e("standing", "-", "small"), flag("ran_a_game")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[681, 682, 686])),
]),
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dict(id="sacrifice", situation="sacrifice", title="What you would give up for them",
sentence="Someone you love needs something you can only get by giving up what you value most, and they must not know.",
roles=["you", "partner", "rival"], stages=["rooming_house", "counter"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="A dollar and eighty-seven cents, and tomorrow is the holiday. There is one thing in the flat worth anything, and it is yours to sell.", sources=[454, 455, 456]),
dict(text="The money for lessons has run out. One of you will have to take work well beneath what you came here for, and the other will have to not know about it.", sources=[488, 489, 492]),
dict(text="You have four dollars put by for the thing you have waited all year for. Your rival at work has been locked out of her room for exactly four dollars.", sources=[738]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Sell it, and say nothing.", result="They find out, of course. It is the only thing about the day either of you remembers.",
effects=[e("relationships.partner.likes_you", "+", "large"), e("skills.front", "-", "small"), note("Sold the thing that mattered, for a present.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[456, 460, 461])),
dict(label="Keep it.", result="The holiday comes. It is a perfectly good holiday.",
effects=[e("relationships.partner.likes_you", "-", "small")], source=dict(kind="archetype", chunks=[])),
dict(label="Take the humble work in secret.", result="Your hands give you away within a fortnight.",
effects=[e("money", "+", "medium"), e("standing", "-", "small"), e("relationships.partner.trusts_you", "+", "medium")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[491, 492])),
dict(label="Give it to the one who needs it and ask for nothing.", result="She promises a dollar a week back. You go without the thing you waited for.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "small"), e("relationships.rival.owes_you", "+", "medium"), e("relationships.rival.likes_you", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[738, 739])),
]),
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dict(id="rival", situation="rival", title="Someone else wants them too",
sentence="A rival wants the same person you do, and has something you have not.",
roles=["you", "rival", "sweetheart"], stages=["rooming_house", "counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="The other suitor has learning, a silk hat, and an invitation to take her up to the roof to see the view. You have a very small shop and a joke about its size.", sources=[333, 334, 335]),
dict(text="Your rival has come to you, of all people, for help: they mean to run away with the one you both want, tonight at nine.", sources=[532, 533, 534]),
dict(text="A rich newcomer has walked in, looked once at the one you have all admired for a year, and put down his fork.", sources=[519, 520, 521]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Let the rival show off.", result="The display does your work for you.",
effects=[e("relationships.sweetheart.likes_you", "+", "small"), e("relationships.rival.wary_of_you", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[336, 337])),
dict(label="Help the rival, and quietly warn the family.", result="It is clever. Your rival is honest, which you had not allowed for.",
effects=[e("relationships.rival.wary_of_you", "+", "medium"), e("relationships.sweetheart.trusts_you", "-", "small"), e("skills.front", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[535, 536])),
dict(label="Get the rival out of the way.", result="It takes a night and every dollar you have.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "medium"), e("relationships.rival.wary_of_you", "+", "medium"), flag("saw_off_a_rival")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[522, 523])),
dict(label="Say what you want, plainly, before they do.", result="Nobody has said it to them that way before.",
effects=[e("relationships.sweetheart.likes_you", "+", "medium"), e("skills.nerve", "+", "medium")], source=dict(kind="gap", chunks=[122, 785])),
]),
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dict(id="price", situation="price", title="The offer that would feed you",
sentence="Someone with money wants something from you that you would rather not give, and you are hungry.",
roles=["you", "stranger", "employer"], stages=["rooming_house"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="You spent your supper money on a collar because a man known for spending has asked you to dinner. He is downstairs now.", sources=[570, 571, 573, 574]),
dict(text="Your employer has told the customer you would be glad to dine with him this evening. That is part of the work now.", sources=[691, 694]),
dict(text="Two days without dinner, and a prosperous lodger has stopped you in the hall to propose.", sources=[483]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Go.", result="The dinner is very good.",
effects=[e("money", "+", "small"), e("relationships.stranger.likes_you", "+", "small"), flag("went_to_dinner")], source=dict(kind="archetype", chunks=[])),
dict(label="Send word that you are ill.", result="Crackers and jam, and a good feeling that lasts until you have to do it again.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "small"), e("skills.nerve", "+", "small"), note("Sent word of being ill.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[574, 575, 576])),
dict(label="Go, and draw the line at the door.", result="They take it in a way you did not expect.",
effects=[e("money", "+", "small"), e("skills.front", "+", "small"), e("relationships.employer.wary_of_you", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[693, 694, 695])),
dict(label="Ask for work instead of dinner.", result="Nobody has asked them that before, and they are not sure what to say.",
effects=[e("relationships.employer.trusts_you", "+", "small"), e("money", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="gap", chunks=[])),
]),
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dict(id="despised", situation="despised", title="The one nobody thinks much of",
sentence="Someone everybody around you looks down on wants a chance, and may be the only one who can help.",
roles=["you", "stranger", "pal"], stages=["rooming_house", "counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="The man who caused the accident keeps coming back, grinning, to apologise. Everybody you work with throws him out. Your boy has started to like him.", sources=[745, 746, 747]),
dict(text="A tramp has turned up at the door with the very thing the household has been advertising a reward for, and he is plainly drunk.", sources=[350, 354]),
dict(text="Your new friend is, by his own account, a burglar. He is also the best company you have had in a year.", sources=[174, 176, 177]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Throw them out.", result="Your people approve. The door does not stay shut long.",
effects=[e("relationships.pal.likes_you", "+", "small"), e("relationships.stranger.wary_of_you", "+", "medium")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[746])),
dict(label="Let them in and hear them out.", result="It turns out they can do the one thing nobody else in the room can.",
effects=[e("relationships.stranger.trusts_you", "+", "medium"), e("relationships.pal.wary_of_you", "+", "small"), flag("took_in_an_outsider")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[747, 748, 749])),
dict(label="Pay them and be done.", result="Money settles it, as far as money goes.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "small"), e("relationships.stranger.likes_you", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[355])),
dict(label="Bring them among your own people.", result="They outshine the whole table, and nobody believes a word of how you met.",
effects=[e("skills.nerve", "+", "small"), e("standing", "+", "small"), note("Brought a burglar to dinner.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[177])),
]),
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dict(id="loyalty", situation="loyalty", title="Turn in a friend",
sentence="Someone with power wants you to turn on a friend you owe, and will pay or punish accordingly.",
roles=["you", "pal", "officer", "patron"], stages=["counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="The man who lent you a thousand dollars when your furniture was on the sidewalk is sitting across from you, and you are fairly sure what he did last week.", sources=[148, 149, 150, 151]),
dict(text="A man from the organisation has five hundred dollars and a request: stand up in court and say what you know about the man who used to be over you.", sources=[778]),
dict(text="An old friend has come a thousand miles to keep an appointment, and his face matches a description on your desk.", sources=[598, 599, 601]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Do your duty.", result="It is the right thing, and you will be reminded of it at every reunion for the rest of your life.",
effects=[e("standing", "+", "medium"), e("relationships.pal.trusts_you", "-", "large"), flag("turned_in_a_friend")], source=dict(kind="archetype", chunks=[])),
dict(label="Refuse, and take what comes.", result="You are down and out, and nobody's traitor.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "small"), e("standing", "-", "medium"), e("relationships.pal.trusts_you", "+", "large"), e("relationships.patron.wary_of_you", "+", "medium")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[151, 778])),
dict(label="Send someone else to do it.", result="You leave a note. You could not do it yourself.",
effects=[e("standing", "+", "small"), e("relationships.pal.trusts_you", "-", "small"), note("Could not make the arrest in person.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[602])),
dict(label="Let them convict themselves.", result="Vanity does the rest; you only had to hand them the telephone.",
effects=[e("skills.front", "+", "medium"), e("standing", "+", "small"), e("relationships.pal.wary_of_you", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[153, 154, 156])),
]),
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dict(id="appearances", situation="appearances", title="What it looked like",
sentence="Someone whose opinion matters has judged you by what it looked like, and will not hear an explanation.",
roles=["you", "sweetheart", "officer"], stages=["rooming_house", "counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="You were turning them down, as it happens. What the one you love saw, walking in, was a kiss on the hand.", sources=[287, 288]),
dict(text="Something went missing from a house you worked in yesterday, and you have been seen in public with something very like it.", sources=[725]),
dict(text="You are exactly what you look like, and that is the difficulty: nobody here believes anybody is.", sources=[250, 251, 253, 254]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Explain.", result="They listen to the first sentence.",
effects=[e("relationships.sweetheart.trusts_you", "+", "small"), e("skills.nerve", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="archetype", chunks=[])),
dict(label="Say nothing and let them think it.", result="Pride settles it. Pride has a long memory.",
effects=[e("relationships.sweetheart.trusts_you", "-", "large"), flag("left_it_unexplained")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[288, 614])),
dict(label="Send the proof, and leave it with them.", result="A letter, from somebody with nothing to gain. It says everything you would have.",
effects=[e("relationships.sweetheart.trusts_you", "+", "medium"), e("skills.front", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[615, 616])),
dict(label="Change how you look.", result="Now you look worth robbing.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "medium"), e("skills.front", "+", "medium"), e("relationships.stranger.likes_you", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[254, 255])),
]),
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dict(id="sign", situation="sign", title="A sign",
sentence="Someone in a bad way wants a sign to tell them what to do, and one has turned up.",
roles=["you", "stranger", "pal"], stages=["rooming_house", "counter"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="The fortune-teller said a dark man, a fair woman, a voyage and a loss, then luck from a man with a crooked nose. It has been a very accurate afternoon.", sources=[444, 445, 446]),
dict(text="The man handing out cards gave you one with three words written on it in ink, and nobody else. He did it again when you went back round.", sources=[556, 557]),
dict(text="Four roses have appeared in the window across the garden, and you are sure they are meant for you.", sources=[107, 108]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Follow it.", result="It leads somewhere. Not where it said, but somewhere.",
effects=[e("skills.nerve", "+", "small"), e("relationships.stranger.likes_you", "+", "small"), flag("followed_a_sign")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[447, 558])),
dict(label="Ignore it.", result="Nothing happens, which is what you expected, mostly.",
effects=[], source=dict(kind="archetype", chunks=[])),
dict(label="Ask around first.", result="It turns out to mean something perfectly ordinary, to somebody else.",
effects=[e("skills.front", "+", "small"), note("Found out what the roses meant.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[109, 562])),
dict(label="Make the sign yourself, for someone who needs one.", result="It holds through two nights of weather. It costs more than you told anyone.",
effects=[e("relationships.pal.likes_you", "+", "large"), e("money", "-", "small"), e("standing", "-", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[793, 796])),
]),
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dict(id="honest_work", situation="honest_work", title="They want the flattering version",
sentence="A client or editor wants your work made false in the way they like, and will not pay for the true version.",
roles=["you", "employer", "partner"], stages=["counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="The editor likes everything about your work except the part you believe is true.", sources=[388, 389, 390, 391]),
dict(text="Your portraits keep showing what the sitters would rather not have seen, and the sitters have stopped coming.", sources=[653, 654]),
dict(text="Your genuine article came back marked 'too artificial'. A friend who has never left the city wrote the same thing badly, and it sold.", sources=[249, 256]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Give them what they want.", result="The cheque comes round on Thursday, as usual.",
effects=[e("money", "+", "medium"), e("skills.front", "+", "small"), e("standing", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[256])),
dict(label="Keep doing it your way.", result="The envelopes keep coming back. The work is good.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "medium"), e("skills.nerve", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[387])),
dict(label="Try to prove you are right.", result="Life supplies the proof, and it is not the proof you wanted.",
effects=[e("skills.nerve", "+", "small"), e("relationships.partner.trusts_you", "-", "medium"), note("Proved the point, and lost by it.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[392, 393, 394, 395])),
dict(label="Quit the trade.", result="You would rather sell ploughs for your father.",
effects=[e("standing", "-", "medium"), e("money", "+", "small"), flag("quit_the_trade")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[89])),
]),
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dict(id="unspoken", situation="unspoken", title="You cannot say it",
sentence="Someone you want is waiting for you to say it, and you cannot find the words or the moment.",
roles=["you", "sweetheart", "patron"], stages=["rooming_house", "counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="You can handle any customer in the place. When the owner's daughter comes down the stairs you tell her it looks like rain.", sources=[750, 751]),
dict(text="You will have eight minutes alone with them in a cab, between the train and the theatre, and then they sail for two years.", sources=[540]),
dict(text="The partnership is strictly business. That was your own condition. It was a very good condition, two years ago.", sources=[196, 197, 202]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Say it now.", result="It comes out wrong, and it comes out.",
effects=[e("skills.nerve", "+", "medium"), e("relationships.sweetheart.likes_you", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="archetype", chunks=[])),
dict(label="Find the nerve in a glass.", result="Two spoonfuls of something golden, and you lift them clean off the floor.",
effects=[e("skills.nerve", "+", "small"), e("money", "-", "small"), e("relationships.sweetheart.likes_you", "+", "medium")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[756])),
dict(label="Buy the moment.", result="Somebody arranges a very large traffic jam. It is expensive. It works.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "large"), e("relationships.sweetheart.likes_you", "+", "medium"), e("relationships.patron.owes_you", "-", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[542, 543, 544])),
dict(label="Wait for a better time.", result="There is always a better time.",
effects=[e("relationships.sweetheart.likes_you", "-", "small")], source=dict(kind="archetype", chunks=[])),
]),
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dict(id="strings", situation="strings", title="Money with conditions",
sentence="Family with money wants to decide how you live, and will pay you to let them.",
roles=["you", "patron", "sweetheart"], stages=["counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="Your people have money, and they have made it plain you can have it back the day you give up the person you mean to marry.", sources=[126, 129]),
dict(text="The inheritance is a thousand dollars and a single condition: a full account of exactly how you spend it.", sources=[58]),
dict(text="The family will take you back, every cent of it, if you marry the heiress they have chosen for you.", sources=[779]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Do as they ask.", result="The allowance arrives on the first of the month. So does the heiress.",
effects=[e("money", "+", "large"), e("relationships.sweetheart.trusts_you", "-", "large"), e("relationships.patron.likes_you", "+", "medium")], source=dict(kind="archetype", chunks=[])),
dict(label="Refuse, and live on what you earn.", result="Sausages for breakfast, credit at the corner restaurant, and the person you chose.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "medium"), e("relationships.sweetheart.likes_you", "+", "large"), flag("cut_off")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[126, 780])),
dict(label="Take the money and give it away where it is owed.", result="The account you write is one line long. You tear it up before they can read it.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "small"), e("relationships.sweetheart.trusts_you", "+", "medium"), note("Gave the legacy to the ward.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[62, 63, 64])),
dict(label="Bring them to meet the person you chose.", result="It takes a year of not speaking and one evening in a restaurant.",
effects=[e("relationships.patron.trusts_you", "+", "medium"), e("skills.nerve", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[132, 133])),
]),
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dict(id="overlooked", situation="overlooked", title="Beside the admired one",
sentence="The plain one working beside the admired one wants, once, to be noticed.",
roles=["you", "pal", "employer"], stages=["rooming_house", "counter"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="At the next table they court your partner six at a time. At yours they read you the bill of fare.", sources=[627, 628, 629]),
dict(text="For two years you have gone to the dance on your best friend's arm and her young man's charity.", sources=[493]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Make the most of the first sign of notice.", result="It was nothing, it turns out. For two days it was everything.",
effects=[e("standing", "+", "small"), e("money", "+", "small"), note("Was, for two days, somebody worth insulting.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[630, 631, 632])),
dict(label="Bring an escort of your own, whoever he is.", result="He is splendid and he is not who he says, and for one evening nobody cares.",
effects=[e("skills.front", "+", "small"), e("standing", "+", "small"), flag("brought_a_borrowed_escort")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[494, 495, 496])),
dict(label="Stay content in the other's shadow.", result="You are glad for them. Mostly you are.",
effects=[e("relationships.pal.likes_you", "+", "medium")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[629])),
dict(label="Save for one thing to wear.", result="Eight months of it. It had better be purple.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "medium"), e("standing", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[735, 736])),
]),
dict(id="homecoming", situation="homecoming", title="Word from home",
sentence="The people you left want you back, and someone has brought word of them.",
roles=["you", "stranger", "partner"], stages=["counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="A stranger from your village has brought news of your mother, who keeps your chair where it was, and a rose from the front step.", sources=[144, 145, 146]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Laugh it off.", result="You laugh it off. You keep the rose.",
effects=[e("skills.front", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[147])),
dict(label="Go back.", result="Your engagements are cancelled by the next morning.",
effects=[e("standing", "-", "large"), flag("went_home"), note("Went home.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[147])),
dict(label="Send money instead.", result="It is gratefully received. It is not what was asked for.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "medium")], source=dict(kind="gap", chunks=[])),
]),
dict(id="patron", situation="patron", title="A handshake from the top",
sentence="Someone powerful could be seen with you, and being seen with them will cost you.",
roles=["you", "patron", "partner"], stages=["rooming_house", "counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="The district's great man is celebrating across the room. You could walk over, put out your hand, and stand the whole party a round with a week's wages.", sources=[728, 729]),
dict(text="The most powerful man you know has promised to come to your wedding, and there is a reason he must not.", sources=[802, 803]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Walk over and stand the round.", result="He shakes your hand. At home there is shrieking about the wages, which you hardly hear.",
effects=[e("money", "-", "large"), e("relationships.patron.likes_you", "+", "small"), e("relationships.partner.likes_you", "-", "medium"), note("Shook the great man's hand.")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[729, 730])),
dict(label="Offer him something he needs.", result="He takes your hand in front of the whole room, and the room remembers your name.",
effects=[e("standing", "+", "medium"), e("relationships.patron.owes_you", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[732])),
dict(label="Nod from where you are.", result="He nods back. That is the whole of it.",
effects=[e("relationships.patron.likes_you", "+", "small")], source=dict(kind="archetype", chunks=[])),
]),
dict(id="habit", situation="habit", title="The old habit",
sentence="An old habit wants out at exactly the moment you need to be someone new.",
roles=["you", "sweetheart"], stages=["counter", "swell"],
descriptions=[
dict(text="A year of being polished, and the gentleman approaches your stall at the charity bazaar through a brass wicket exactly like the one at your old cash desk.", sources=[383]),
],
options=[
dict(label="Answer the way you always did.", result="Your check, please.",
effects=[e("standing", "-", "medium"), e("skills.front", "-", "small")], source=dict(kind="scene", chunks=[383])),
dict(label="Catch yourself.", result="Only you noticed the pause.",
effects=[e("skills.front", "+", "medium")], source=dict(kind="gap", chunks=[])),
dict(label="Own it, out loud.", result="Some of them are charmed. The ones that matter are not sure.",
effects=[e("skills.nerve", "+", "small"), e("relationships.sweetheart.likes_you", "+", "small"), e("standing", "-", "small")], source=dict(kind="gap", chunks=[])),
]),
]
# --- validate -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
chunks = json.load(open(HERE.parent / 'chunks.json'))
stories = json.load(open(HERE.parent / 'stories.json'))
sit_members = collections.defaultdict(list)
for c, s in ASSIGN.items(): sit_members[s].append(c)
problems = []
for ev in EVENTS:
if not 3 <= len(ev['options']) <= 5: problems.append(f"{ev['id']}: {len(ev['options'])} options")
for d in ev['descriptions'] + ev['options']:
for fld in ('text', 'label', 'result'):
s = d.get(fld, '')
OK = {'I', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Saturdays', 'Sunday', 'Sundays'}
caps = [t for sent in re.split(r"[.!?:;]\s+", s) for t in re.findall(r"[A-Za-z']+", sent)[1:]
if t[0].isupper() and t not in OK]
if caps: problems.append(f"{ev['id']}: capitalised word(s) {caps} in {fld}")
for d in ev['descriptions']:
for c in d['sources']:
if c not in sit_members[ev['situation']] and c not in range(len(chunks)): problems.append(f"{ev['id']}: bad source {c}")
for o in ev['options']:
for ef in o['effects']:
p = ef['path']
ok = p in ('money', 'debt', 'standing', 'notable') or p in SKILLS or p.startswith('flags.') or \
(p.startswith('relationships.') and p.split('.')[1] in CAST and p.split('.')[2] in REL_STATS)
if not ok: problems.append(f"{ev['id']}: bad path {p}")
if 'dir' in ef and ef['dir'] not in '+-': problems.append(f"{ev['id']}: bad dir")
if 'size' in ef and ef['size'] not in ('small', 'medium', 'large'): problems.append(f"{ev['id']}: bad size")
sigs = [json.dumps(sorted(json.dumps(x, sort_keys=True) for x in o['effects'])) for o in ev['options']]
if len(set(sigs)) != len(sigs): problems.append(f"{ev['id']}: two options with identical effects")
if problems:
print('\n'.join(problems)); sys.exit(1)
def member_rows(s):
rows = []
for c in sorted(sit_members[s]):
rows.append({'chunk': c, 'story': chunks[c]['story'], 'title': chunks[c]['title'].title()})
return rows
out = {
'made_by': 'claude-opus-5, in-session by hand, 2026-09-17',
'player_role': PLAYER_ROLE, 'stages': STAGES, 'cast': CAST, 'skills': SKILLS,
'relationship_stats': sorted(REL_STATS),
'effects_note': 'Directions and rough sizes only; values are for the numeric search (DESIGN.md: the model never chooses a number).',
'situations': [],
}
for s in sorted(sit_members, key=lambda s: -len(sit_members[s])):
mem = member_rows(s)
st = collections.Counter(r['story'] for r in mem)
dom = max(st.values()) / len(mem)
out['situations'].append({
'id': s, 'scenes': len(mem), 'stories': len(st), 'dominant_story_share': round(dom, 2),
'passes_pipeline_candidate_rule': len(mem) >= 5 and len(st) >= 4 and dom <= 0.40,
'members': mem,
'events': [ev for ev in EVENTS if ev['situation'] == s],
})
missing = [s for s in sit_members if not any(ev['situation'] == s for ev in EVENTS)]
if missing: print('situations without an event:', missing); sys.exit(1)
(HERE / 'situations-claude.json').write_text(json.dumps(out, indent=1, ensure_ascii=False), encoding='utf-8')
print(f"ok: {len(out['situations'])} situations, {len(EVENTS)} events, "
f"{sum(len(ev['options']) for ev in EVENTS)} options, {sum(len(ev['descriptions']) for ev in EVENTS)} descriptions")
kinds = collections.Counter(o['source']['kind'] for ev in EVENTS for o in ev['options'])
print('option sources:', dict(kinds))
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== carry v1 summaries, summarise new scenes (qwen2.5:3b-instruct)
new scene 29 (DOUGHERTY'S EYE-OPENER): Patrick, the Honorable, attempts to seduce Mrs. Dougherty but is thwarted by Jimmy, who responds aggressively.
new scene 30 (LITTLE SPECK IN GARNERED FRUIT): The newlyweds, newly arrived in their lavish flat, debate their honeymoon plans while the groom prepares to leave for a boxing match.
new scene 31 (LITTLE SPECK IN GARNERED FRUIT): The Kid, seeking a peach for the bride's favor, confronts multiple fruit vendors and a reluctant Justus O'Callahan, each unwilling to part with the desired fruit before its season.
new scene 32 (LITTLE SPECK IN GARNERED FRUIT): The Kid, seeking peaches, confronts a fruiterer who refuses to sell them, leading to a series of encounters with a detective and a failed attempt to join a closed boxing club.
new scene 33 (LITTLE SPECK IN GARNERED FRUIT): The Kid seeks to expose gambling operations, challenging the captain to a risky raid on Rafferty's establishment.
new scene 34 (LITTLE SPECK IN GARNERED FRUIT): Denver Dick challenged the Kid personally, who outmaneuvered him in a game of wits and physical skill, then discovered a gambling setup gone awry.
new scene 35 (LITTLE SPECK IN GARNERED FRUIT): The Kid commands a nighttime raid on Denver Dick's restaurant, securing a peach for his bride, while the officers transport the prisoners.
new scene 36 (LITTLE SPECK IN GARNERED FRUIT): The bride desires her groom to perform a task, granting him power over her, while he fulfills her whims, including giving her a peach instead of an orange.
new scene 436 (WHAT YOU WANT): Old Tom Crowley, now a caliph with $42 million, seeks excitement beyond his wealth in a reimagined Baghdad-on-the-Subway.
new scene 764 (A HARLEM TRAGEDY): Mrs. Cassidy schemes to intervene in her neighbors' domestic conflict, while Mrs. Fink denies any physical assault by her husband.
839 summaries: 829 carried from ../summaries.json, 10 new, 12s
853 names in the corpus lexicon; 730 of 839 summaries changed
wrote summaries_clean.json
== embed summaries
done: 839 vectors, 40s this session
18:35:36
== predicaments (qwen3:14b), all scenes
839 scenes, resuming at 0, model qwen3:14b
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done: 839 predicaments, 2215s this session; 219 still mention a job, relationship or place word
853 names in the corpus lexicon; 187 of 839 summaries changed
wrote predicaments_clean.json
== embed predicaments
done: 839 vectors, 39s this session
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seed 11: 45 candidate groups, median top topic-word share 22%
seed 12: 41 candidate groups, median top topic-word share 16%
seed 13: 47 candidate groups, median top topic-word share 20%
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