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  "chunk": 187,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The narrator argues that the phrenologists and moralists, by deducing man's faculties from what they assumed God intended, have overlooked one basic impulse.",
  "predicament": "A thinker insists that everyone has overlooked one basic human impulse, because none of them could see what it was for."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 188,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He says it would have been wiser to classify people by what they actually do than by what God supposedly meant them to do.",
  "predicament": "A reasoner argues that people should be judged by what they actually do, not by what they are supposed to want."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 189,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He names the impulse perverseness: acting for the very reason that we should not, an impulse that in some minds becomes irresistible and runs against our own well-being.",
  "predicament": "Someone discovers in himself an urge to do a thing precisely because he knows he should not, and cannot resist it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 190,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He offers an example: a speaker who wants to please, and knows he displeases, is seized with a longing to tantalise his listener with roundabout talk, and gives in.",
  "predicament": "A speaker who wants to be liked feels an irresistible urge to provoke his listener, and gives in to it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 191,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Another example: facing a vital task that must be done at once, we put it off for no reason; the craving for delay grows until the last hour passes, and then, too late, the energy returns.",
  "predicament": "Someone facing the one urgent task their future depends on keeps putting it off for no reason until it is too late."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 192,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "Another: standing at the edge of a precipice, sickened, we are drawn by the very horror of the thought of falling, and unless someone holds us back we plunge.",
  "predicament": "A person standing at the edge of a drop feels a terrible pull to jump, precisely because the thought is so horrifying."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 193,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He explains that he is in a condemned cell as a victim of this imp: after months of planning a murder with no chance of detection, he killed his victim with a poisoned candle, and the verdict was a natural death.",
  "predicament": "A man who planned a perfect crime and got away with it now sits condemned, and wants to explain why."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 194,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He inherited the estate and for years delighted in his safety, until the thought \"I am safe\" began to haunt him like a tune, and one day he added aloud: unless I am fool enough to confess.",
  "predicament": "A man who has got away with a crime for years hears himself say aloud that he is safe, unless he confesses."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 195,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "An icy chill seizes him; knowing he has never resisted such fits, he runs through the streets, is chased and seized, and blurts out a full confession before collapsing.",
  "predicament": "A man who knows he will betray his own secret tries to outrun the urge, and confesses to strangers in the street."
 }
]