[
 {
  "chunk": 162,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "A demon, hand on the narrator's head, describes a desolate land by a sickly river where lilies sigh, trees rock without wind and clouds rush forever, a place of neither quiet nor silence.",
  "predicament": "A listener is made to hear of a place of endless unrest, where nothing is ever still and there is no peace."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 163,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "In blood-red rain by moonlight the demon sees a rock carved with the word DESOLATION, and a grave, godlike man upon it, weary and disgusted with mankind, longing for solitude.",
  "predicament": "A watcher hides and studies a solitary man who has fled mankind in weariness and wants only to be left alone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 164,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "The man sits trembling all night on the rock, gazing at the desolation; the hidden demon summons roaring beasts to the rock's foot, but the man only trembles and stays.",
  "predicament": "A tormentor keeps testing a lonely man with fresh terrors, and each time the man trembles but will not leave."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 165,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "The demon calls down a tempest, and still the man sits; then he curses everything with silence, the rock reads SILENCE, and the man, wan with terror, flees.",
  "predicament": "A man who endured every storm and terror flees at last from utter silence, which he finds more frightening than any noise."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 166,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "The narrator calls this the most wonderful of all fables; the demon, finishing, falls back into the tomb laughing and curses him because he cannot laugh too.",
  "predicament": "A listener is cursed by a mocking tormentor because he cannot share the tormentor's laughter at another's terror."
 }
]