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{
"chunk": 90,
"story": 12,
"summary": "A young woman about to sail receives the suitor who wronged her coldly, and produces a keepsake motto as evidence against him.",
"predicament": "Someone facing the person who wronged them keeps the proof of the promise that was broken."
},
{
"chunk": 91,
"story": 12,
"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."
},
{
"chunk": 92,
"story": 12,
"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,
"story": 14,
"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."
},
{
"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.",
"predicament": "An order given for people's good turns them out of their homes."
},
{
"chunk": 111,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Tenants pack bedding and household goods, protesting to the janitor, while an officer orders everyone out to the park.",
"predicament": "Someone is told by an official to leave a comfortable home and has no appeal."
},
{
"chunk": 112,
"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."
},
{
"chunk": 113,
"story": 15,
"summary": "The officer threatens imprisonment for refusal, and the tenants pass the night in the dark judging strangers by feel.",
"predicament": "People forced together in the dark can tell friend from stranger only by touch."
},
{
"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.",
"predicament": "Forced together, people who despised each other by daylight find they can pair off."
},
{
"chunk": 116,
"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."
},
{
"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."
},
{
"chunk": 120,
"story": 16,
"summary": "A friendly barber insists the season is coming; the restless man denies it, then fights a standing enemy in the street.",
"predicament": "Someone denies what is happening to them and picks a fight instead."
},
{
"chunk": 121,
"story": 16,
"summary": "He hunts a sentimental song under a pretext, then knocks at the young woman's door and asks her opinion of the weather.",
"predicament": "Someone approaches the person they want with a pretext instead of a reason."
},
{
"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."
},
{
"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.",
"predicament": "People invoke an imagined punisher for the foolishness they see in each other."
},
{
"chunk": 124,
"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.",
"predicament": "Someone's work is handed to another who remakes it wrongly and publicly."
},
{
"chunk": 125,
"story": 17,
"summary": "The writer befriends a cheerfully melancholy artist who is engaged to a factory worker earning eight dollars a week.",
"predicament": "Someone loves a person far below their family's expectations, and does not hide it."
},
{
"chunk": 126,
"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.",
"predicament": "Someone gives up a fortune rather than give up the person they intend to marry."
},
{
"chunk": 127,
"story": 17,
"summary": "The young woman proves natural and unpretending at a cheap cafe, and the writer still tells the artist he is a fool.",
"predicament": "Someone judges another's choice foolish even after meeting what they chose."
},
{
"chunk": 128,
"story": 17,
"summary": "The artist plans to marry within the week on the price of one picture, while the writer drinks and repeats his verdict.",
"predicament": "Someone commits to a plan they cannot afford, and is told so by a friend."
},
{
"chunk": 129,
"story": 17,
"summary": "A grey old man appears and orders the artist to give up the young woman and come home; the artist seems not to hear.",
"predicament": "Someone is given a last ultimatum by an authority whose threat no longer reaches them."
},
{
"chunk": 130,
"story": 17,
"summary": "The artist insists nobody spoke to him; the writer, believing he alone can see the visitor, follows the old man out.",
"predicament": "Someone believes they alone can see a danger and rushes to avert it."
},
{
"chunk": 131,
"story": 17,
"summary": "The writer accuses the old man of destroying youth and talent for old standards, and calls the artist the wisest man he knows.",
"predicament": "Someone confronts the old power that punishes the young for choosing differently."
},
{
"chunk": 132,
"story": 17,
"summary": "The old man asks about the young woman, hears her defended, and asks to have the artist brought out to him.",
"predicament": "Someone asks about the person they objected to, and begins to reconsider."
},
{
"chunk": 133,
"story": 17,
"summary": "The old man gives in and asks the artist to bring her home; he is the father, unspoken to for a year.",
"predicament": "An estranged parent yields, and the quarrel that cost a fortune ends with a handshake."
}
]