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  "chunk": 346,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "After an Arabic epigraph about visiting a beloved's grave for relief, the narrator reflects that sorrow is born of joy, and introduces himself as heir to a gloomy ancestral house of a race of visionaries.",
  "predicament": "A man born into an old, strange family and house begins by saying that all his sorrow grew out of what was once joy."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 347,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "Born in the library where his mother died, he spent his boyhood in books and reverie, and by manhood the real world seemed a dream to him while his dreams became his only real life.",
  "predicament": "A man who has lived his whole life in books and reverie finds the real world has become a dream to him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 348,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "He and his cousin grew up together, he sickly and brooding, she lively and carefree; then a fatal disease swept over her, changing even her very identity until he knew her no longer.",
  "predicament": "A man watches the lively companion of his youth transformed by illness until he no longer knows who she is."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 349,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "Among her ailments is a trancelike epilepsy resembling death; meanwhile his own disease grows, a monomania of morbid, fixed attention on trivial objects.",
  "predicament": "While someone close to him sinks into death-like trances, a man falls prey to a morbid fixation he cannot control."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 350,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "He describes losing whole days and nights in staring at a shadow, a flame or a flower, or repeating a word until it means nothing.",
  "predicament": "A man describes losing himself for days in staring at trivial things, unable to pull his mind away."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 351,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "He insists this is not daydreaming, which wanders pleasurably away from its object, but an unpleasant attention that keeps returning to a trivial object and magnifies it.",
  "predicament": "A man insists his obsession is not idle dreaming but a grip that keeps dragging him back to one trivial thing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 352,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "His books of the time fed the disorder; he spent weeks over a single paradoxical sentence about death and resurrection.",
  "predicament": "A man with an obsessive mind feeds it with the very reading most likely to make it worse."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 353,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "His reason was shaken only by trifles; his cousin's moral ruin grieved him normally, but his disease fastened on the startling changes in her body.",
  "predicament": "A man grieves normally for a loved one's ruin, while his sick mind fixes instead on the changes in her body."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 354,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "He never loved her in her beauty, seeing her only as an object of thought; now he shudders at her, yet out of pity he asks her to marry him, and one afternoon she appears before him in the library.",
  "predicament": "A man who never loved someone proposes marriage out of pity, though her presence now makes him shudder."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 355,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "He stares at her wasted body, hollow temples and lifeless eyes; she smiles, slowly showing her teeth, which he wishes he had never seen.",
  "predicament": "A man looking at someone he has pledged to marry is seized by horror at one detail of her face."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 356,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "She leaves, but the image of her teeth does not; his monomania fixes on them utterly, and he comes to believe that possessing them alone could restore his reason.",
  "predicament": "A man's obsessive mind fixes on one part of another person, and he comes to believe he must possess it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 357,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "He sits motionless through a night and a day with the phantom of the teeth, until a weeping servant tells him his cousin died of a fit that morning and is ready for burial.",
  "predicament": "A man lost in obsession for a day and a night learns that the person he fixated on has died suddenly."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 358,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "He wakes at midnight in the library, knowing she has been buried, with no memory of the hours between except a shriek; he has done some deed, but what? On the table lies the doctor's box.",
  "predicament": "A man wakes with a gap in his memory and the dreadful sense that he has done something terrible he cannot recall."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 359,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "A terrified servant reports a violated grave and a disfigured body still alive; the narrator's clothes are bloody, his hand scratched, a spade stands by the wall, and the box spills dental tools and thirty-two teeth.",
  "predicament": "A man learns that in a blank he cannot remember he dug up someone buried alive and mutilated her."
 }
]