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  "chunk": 262,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "After a ballad epigraph, the narrator observes that everyone in the service believes his own small task is the pivot on which the whole administration turns.",
  "predicament": "Everyone in a large organisation believes their own small task is what keeps the whole machine running."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 263,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "A middle-aged official is said to know more about the princely states than any man alive; his superiors echo his words and feel they are guiding the empire, while he does the work.",
  "predicament": "In a big undertaking, one expert does the real work while those above him repeat his words and collect the credit."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 264,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "His superiors keep him working by praise, even the viceroy's, until he believes himself indispensable; yet hardly anyone knows who he is, and his work leaves no time for friends.",
  "predicament": "An indispensable worker is kept at his desk by praise from above, while almost nobody knows who he is or what he does."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 265,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "He falls suddenly in love with a frivolous, lisping girl; the station laughs; she pretends interest in his work and mocks it behind his back.",
  "predicament": "A dry, overworked expert falls for a frivolous young woman who pretends interest in his work and mocks it behind his back."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 266,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "After a month of doing his work badly, he conceives a great history to lay at her feet; she promises to wait a year, with an eye on his salary, and he takes leave.",
  "predicament": "A man plans a great work to lay at his beloved's feet, and she agrees to wait, mostly for his salary."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 267,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "He works ten hours a day for two hundred and thirty days, and love makes the book a masterpiece; the narrator notes how women drive men out of the ranks and then lose interest.",
  "predicament": "Working blind for someone else's sake, a man toils day and night and produces the finest work of his whole life."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 268,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "She glances at it and says she did not understand it; broken, he returns to hack work and sinks the whole edition in a lake, keeping one copy that he later gives the narrator.",
  "predicament": "The one person a man's life's work was made for dismisses it unread, and he destroys it and returns to drudgery."
 }
]