JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5
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Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes, keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy, wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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1888 lines
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"On Official Duty",
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"chunk": 56,
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"story": 3,
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"predicament": "A man who feels his youth wasted in a dead-end place decides nothing worse can possibly happen to him."
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"chunk": 121,
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"predicament": "Two people stuck at a dreary duty far from where they hoped to be think longingly of the lives others are living."
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"chunk": 122,
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"story": 9,
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"predicament": "An old man who must obey every order frets over a pointless errand through a storm because someone might be angry."
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"chunk": 123,
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"chunk": 163,
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"predicament": "A man with no education or connections knows he will never rise, and even a night off would change nothing."
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}
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"text": "Keep at it without complaint.",
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"source": "scene:7",
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"patience": "+",
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"flags.resigned": "set"
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"in_group": true
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"text": "Drink to make the days pass.",
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"source": "scene:53",
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"moves": {
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"money": "-",
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"standing": "-"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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"text": "Take your complaint to those above you, again.",
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"source": "scene:3",
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"moves": {
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"relationships.authority": "-",
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"standing": "risk"
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},
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"in_group": false
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{
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"text": "Tell yourself real life is elsewhere, and wait for your chance.",
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"source": "scene:128",
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"moves": {
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"flags.dreaming_of_escape": "set"
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},
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"in_group": false
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},
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"text": "Give it up and leave for something else.",
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"source": "filled",
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"moves": {
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"money": "risk",
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"standing": "risk",
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"id": "G02",
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"name": "A grief nobody will hear",
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"predicament": "You have lost someone, and the people around you will not listen, or tell you that you are mourning wrongly.",
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"sentence": "A bereaved person wants someone to hear their grief from people who will not listen.",
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"actor": "bereaved person",
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"wants": "someone to hear their grief",
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"counterpart": "people who will not listen",
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"Misery",
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"In Exile",
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"On Official Duty",
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"The Requiem"
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],
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"low": 6,
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"middle": 3
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"chunk": 47,
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"predicament": "A grieving man tries to tell a customer that his child has just died, and is cut short before he can go on."
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},
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"chunk": 49,
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"story": 2,
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"predicament": "A man in mourning puts up with abuse from strangers because it is company, and they brush off his loss in a phrase."
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},
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"chunk": 50,
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"story": 2,
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"predicament": "A man who needs to speak of his grief searches the passing crowd for one person who will stop and listen."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 51,
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"story": 2,
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"predicament": "A man who has given up on strangers goes home and tries one last time to tell someone he knows."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 52,
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"story": 2,
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"predicament": "A man with no one who will hear his grief pours it out to the only creature that will stay and listen."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 84,
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"story": 6,
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"predicament": "A young man who still feels his grief tells a hardened elder he is dead inside, and is laughed at."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 135,
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"story": 9,
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"predicament": "A young man who cannot find words for someone else's grief wonders whether he will end up just as lonely."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 167,
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"story": 14,
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"predicament": "A bereaved parent is rebuked in public for the harsh word he used to name his own dead child."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 169,
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"story": 14,
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"predicament": "A father rebuked over how he mourns his child accepts the penance and still insists on marking her death properly."
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}
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],
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"options": [
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{
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"text": "Keep trying to tell whoever is nearest.",
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"source": "scene:50",
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"moves": {
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"patience": "+",
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"relationships.stranger": "risk"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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"text": "Laugh along and keep it to yourself.",
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"source": "scene:49",
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"patience": "+",
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"flags.grief_unspoken": "set"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Pour it out to something that cannot answer back.",
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"source": "scene:52",
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"moves": {
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"flags.grief_unspoken": "set"
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"in_group": true
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"text": "Mourn your own way, whatever they say.",
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"source": "scene:169",
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"standing": "-",
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"relationships.family": "+"
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"text": "Tell them to their face that they are heartless.",
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"source": "scene:84",
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"standing": "-",
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"id": "G03",
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"name": "A glimpse of the life you are missing",
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"predicament": "In the middle of an ordinary dull day, something brings back or shows you a fuller life than yours.",
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"sentence": "A person in a narrow life wants the life they glimpsed from a passing vision of something better.",
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"actor": "person in a narrow life",
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"counterpart": "a passing vision of something better",
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"The Schoolmistress",
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"On Official Duty",
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"The Beauties"
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"standing": {
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"low": 2,
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"middle": 6
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"stage": "middle",
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"chunk": 11,
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"chunk": 12,
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"story": 0,
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"chunk": 128,
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"story": 9,
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"predicament": "A young man stuck in an obscure post tells himself real life is elsewhere, and dreams of escaping before it is too late."
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},
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"chunk": 208,
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"story": 19,
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"predicament": "A weary traveller is suddenly struck by a beauty so complete that everything dreary about the day vanishes."
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},
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"chunk": 210,
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"story": 19,
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"predicament": "A young man moved by something beautiful feels only an unexplained sadness, as if something had been lost for good."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 213,
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"story": 19,
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"predicament": "A young man leaving a place where he glimpsed something beautiful feels an ache he cannot explain to anyone."
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},
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"chunk": 214,
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"story": 19,
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"predicament": "A traveller stepping out at a stop is caught unawares by a glimpse of beauty among strangers."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 217,
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"story": 19,
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"predicament": "A worn-out man glimpses youth and happiness in a stranger and knows it is forever out of his reach."
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}
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],
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{
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"text": "Let yourself feel it, then go back to your work.",
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"source": "scene:12",
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"moves": {
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"patience": "+"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Keep looking for as long as it lasts.",
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"source": "scene:213",
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"moves": {
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"flags.longing": "set"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Start planning seriously how to get there.",
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"source": "scene:128",
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"moves": {
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"money": "-",
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"flags.dreaming_of_escape": "set"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Speak to the person who stirred it.",
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"source": "filled",
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"tact": "+",
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"relationships.stranger": "risk"
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"id": "G04",
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"name": "On the outside of other people's warmth",
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"predicament": "Other people are celebrating together, or a whole household is gathered in warmth, and you are outside it.",
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"sentence": "A person left out wants a share of the warmth from a household or crowd enjoying itself.",
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"counterpart": "a household or crowd enjoying itself",
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13,
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20
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"On Official Duty",
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"Small Fry",
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"In the Coach-House",
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"The Shoemaker and the Devil"
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],
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"middle": 3,
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"low": 3
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"chunk": 132,
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"story": 9,
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},
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"chunk": 133,
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"story": 9,
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"predicament": "A guest watches a lively, affectionate family enjoying itself in a warmth he has no share in."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 134,
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"story": 9,
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"predicament": "A guest enjoying another family's happiness cannot stop feeling it is not real life, and pities them for it."
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"chunk": 162,
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"story": 13,
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"predicament": "A man who takes others' holiday shifts for a pittance hears everyone celebrating outside while he sits alone."
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},
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"chunk": 173,
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"story": 15,
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"predicament": "A few humble people pass an evening together in a yard, watching the lit windows of a household above them."
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},
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"chunk": 218,
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"story": 20,
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"predicament": "A poor man forced to work through a holiday for a rude customer resents that others celebrate while he labours."
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}
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],
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"options": [
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{
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"text": "Accept the welcome and join in.",
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"source": "scene:134",
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"moves": {
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"tact": "+",
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"relationships.host": "+"
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Take the extra work for the extra money.",
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"source": "scene:162",
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"moves": {
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"money": "+",
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"relationships.peers": "-"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Watch from outside and keep your thoughts to yourself.",
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"source": "scene:173",
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"moves": {
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"patience": "+"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Grumble aloud at the unfairness of it.",
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"source": "scene:218",
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"moves": {
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"standing": "-",
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"flags.resentment": "set"
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"id": "G05",
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"name": "Talked down to by those above you",
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"predicament": "Someone above you brushes you off, scolds you, or treats you as beneath their notice, and you need them.",
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"sentence": "A humble person wants to be heard and treated decently from someone above them.",
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"actor": "humble person",
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"wants": "to be heard and treated decently",
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"counterpart": "someone above them",
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"stories": [
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9,
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13,
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14,
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20
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],
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"The Schoolmistress",
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"A Nervous Breakdown",
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"The Cattle-Dealers",
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"On Official Duty",
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"Small Fry",
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"The Requiem",
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"The Shoemaker and the Devil"
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],
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"middle": 7
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"stage": "middle",
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"story": 0,
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"predicament": "A woman who has complained for years about an abuse at her work finds nobody above her will listen."
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},
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"chunk": 43,
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"story": 1,
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"predicament": "A man in real anguish is questioned like a specimen by an expert who does not care what upset him."
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},
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"chunk": 101,
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"story": 7,
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"predicament": "A man who paid for a favour finds it quietly undone, and the person in charge is offended that he asks why."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 102,
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"story": 7,
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"predicament": "A man brushed off by the person in front of him goes over his head with a complaint to someone higher up."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 125,
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"story": 9,
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"predicament": "A humble man who serves everyone is mocked and insulted by those above him, and takes kindness only from the poor."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 140,
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"story": 9,
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"predicament": "A humble man who waited all night for those in charge is cursed at by their servant and ignored by them."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 161,
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"story": 13,
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"predicament": "A poor man stuck working through a holiday writes flattering greetings to a superior he secretly despises."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 166,
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"story": 14,
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"predicament": "A self-important man waiting for a service he asked for is startled to be summoned sharply by the one in charge."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 168,
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"story": 14,
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"predicament": "A father who tries to justify his harsh judgement of his dead child is scolded for being too clever."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 220,
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"story": 20,
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"predicament": "A poor man on an errand is mocked by his betters and taunted by a rival who has done better than him."
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}
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],
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"options": [
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{
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"text": "Bow, flatter them and ask again.",
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"source": "scene:112",
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"moves": {
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"tact": "+",
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"standing": "-",
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"relationships.superior": "+"
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},
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"in_group": false
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},
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{
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"text": "Take the insult and carry on.",
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"source": "scene:125",
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"moves": {
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"patience": "+",
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"standing": "-"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Go over their head to someone higher.",
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"source": "scene:102",
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"moves": {
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"standing": "risk",
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"relationships.superior": "-"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Argue your case back to them.",
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"source": "scene:168",
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"moves": {
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"standing": "risk",
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"relationships.superior": "-"
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},
|
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Send the polite greetings you do not mean.",
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"source": "scene:161",
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"moves": {
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"tact": "+",
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"relationships.superior": "+",
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"flags.resentment": "set"
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},
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"in_group": true
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "G06",
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"name": "Nothing moves without a little something",
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"predicament": "An ordinary thing you are owed will only happen if you slip someone something, and everyone around you already does.",
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"sentence": "A person who needs an ordinary thing done wants it done in time from people who expect a little something.",
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"actor": "person who needs an ordinary thing done",
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"wants": "it done in time",
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"counterpart": "people who expect a little something",
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"stories": [
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0,
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7,
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9,
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13
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],
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"story_titles": [
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"The Schoolmistress",
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"The Cattle-Dealers",
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"On Official Duty",
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"Small Fry"
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],
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"standing": {
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"low": 2,
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"middle": 7
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},
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"stage": "middle",
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"members": [
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{
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"chunk": 9,
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"story": 0,
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"predicament": "A woman who handles other people's small sums finds they all quietly believe she is cheating them."
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},
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{
|
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"chunk": 88,
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"story": 7,
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"predicament": "A man whose livelihood depends on an ordinary service reads the silent hint and quietly pays a bribe to get it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 90,
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"story": 7,
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"predicament": "A man learns that paying one hand is not enough, and must pay the next one too before anything moves."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 93,
|
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"story": 7,
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"predicament": "A man keeps careful accounts of every petty payment it costs him to get through an ordinary day."
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 95,
|
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"story": 7,
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"predicament": "A man charmed by a courteous gatekeeper pays him handsomely, and suddenly a way is found to help him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 97,
|
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"story": 7,
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"predicament": "A man threatened with a delay he suspects is invented pays up calmly rather than argue."
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},
|
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{
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"chunk": 104,
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"story": 7,
|
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"predicament": "A man complains about being cheated, and is told the cheating is so universal that nobody even notices it."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 124,
|
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"story": 9,
|
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"predicament": "A poor man was dragged into someone else's dishonest dealing simply because his poverty made him look untrustworthy."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 164,
|
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"story": 13,
|
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"predicament": "A man aching for a better life wonders whether a small dishonesty is the only way to get ahead."
|
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}
|
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],
|
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"options": [
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{
|
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"text": "Pay what is hinted, without a word.",
|
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"source": "scene:88",
|
|
"moves": {
|
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"money": "-",
|
|
"tact": "+",
|
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"relationships.gatekeeper": "+"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Refuse, and put a complaint in writing.",
|
|
"source": "scene:105",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"standing": "risk",
|
|
"relationships.gatekeeper": "-",
|
|
"flags.complaint_lodged": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": false
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Treat them generously and make a friend of them.",
|
|
"source": "scene:96",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "-",
|
|
"relationships.gatekeeper": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": false
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Keep your hands clean and wait it out.",
|
|
"source": "archetype",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"patience": "+",
|
|
"money": "risk"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Take a cut of your own while you are at it.",
|
|
"source": "scene:164",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
|
"standing": "risk",
|
|
"flags.dishonest": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G07",
|
|
"name": "Your work goes unrecognised",
|
|
"predicament": "You have worked hard and well, and nobody has heard of you, while showier people get all the notice.",
|
|
"sentence": "A hard worker wants credit for their work from an indifferent public.",
|
|
"actor": "hard worker",
|
|
"wants": "credit for their work",
|
|
"counterpart": "an indifferent public",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
1,
|
|
10,
|
|
18
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"A Nervous Breakdown",
|
|
"The First-Class Passenger",
|
|
"The Head-Gardener's Story"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"middle": 1,
|
|
"high": 7,
|
|
"low": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "high",
|
|
"members": [
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 38,
|
|
"story": 1,
|
|
"predicament": "A man's burst of zeal collapses as he remembers how small, timid and unheeded he really is."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 142,
|
|
"story": 10,
|
|
"predicament": "A man who has worked hard all his life finds that nobody has ever heard of him or what he did."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 143,
|
|
"story": 10,
|
|
"predicament": "A capable man watches lesser people win the recognition he worked for, and cannot work out what they did right."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 144,
|
|
"story": 10,
|
|
"predicament": "A man whose finest work goes unnoticed is known in public only as the companion of someone more popular."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 145,
|
|
"story": 10,
|
|
"predicament": "A man eager for credit reads the public account of his achievement and finds it given entirely to someone else."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 147,
|
|
"story": 10,
|
|
"predicament": "A man who wins the honour he hoped for sees it buried in small print while trivial gossip takes the headlines."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 148,
|
|
"story": 10,
|
|
"predicament": "A man starved of recognition fishes for it among strangers, and finds nobody has heard of him."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 149,
|
|
"story": 10,
|
|
"predicament": "A man who has spent his life on real work rages that the public only celebrates showmen and scoundrels."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 199,
|
|
"story": 18,
|
|
"predicament": "A proud, well-read old man listens to his betters' idle talk, hoping to be asked for his view."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Keep working and let the work speak for itself.",
|
|
"source": "archetype",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"patience": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Fish for notice among strangers.",
|
|
"source": "scene:148",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"standing": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Go where people who matter might see it.",
|
|
"source": "scene:146",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "-",
|
|
"standing": "risk"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": false
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Laugh about it with someone in the same boat.",
|
|
"source": "scene:150",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.peer": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": false
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G08",
|
|
"name": "A marriage gone numb",
|
|
"predicament": "Your spouse adores or depends on you, and you have long since stopped seeing them at all.",
|
|
"sentence": "A married person wants something to break the monotony from a devoted spouse.",
|
|
"actor": "married person",
|
|
"wants": "something to break the monotony",
|
|
"counterpart": "a devoted spouse",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
3,
|
|
8
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"Champagne",
|
|
"Sorrow"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"middle": 3,
|
|
"low": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "middle",
|
|
"members": [
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 54,
|
|
"story": 3,
|
|
"predicament": "A bored man who treats a devoted spouse cruelly waits for one small treat to break the monotony of his life."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 55,
|
|
"story": 3,
|
|
"predicament": "A man scoffs at his spouse's fear that a small accident foretells misfortune, then walks off irritated by her."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 57,
|
|
"story": 3,
|
|
"predicament": "A man tells himself he no longer loves the spouse who adores him, and takes a vain pleasure in his own misery."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 113,
|
|
"story": 8,
|
|
"predicament": "A man who drifted through years of marriage without feeling is jolted awake when his spouse looks at him as never before."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Take your boredom out on them.",
|
|
"source": "scene:54",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.spouse": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Walk out to be alone with your thoughts.",
|
|
"source": "scene:55",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.spouse": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Humour their worries and stay home.",
|
|
"source": "filled",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"patience": "+",
|
|
"relationships.spouse": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Look at them properly, for once.",
|
|
"source": "scene:113",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.spouse": "+",
|
|
"flags.woke_up": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G09",
|
|
"name": "Too late to make it right",
|
|
"predicament": "You see at last what you owed someone, or what you let slip with them, and it is already too late.",
|
|
"sentence": "A person who let it slip wants another chance from someone they failed.",
|
|
"actor": "person who let it slip",
|
|
"wants": "another chance",
|
|
"counterpart": "someone they failed",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
5,
|
|
8,
|
|
14
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"A Lady's Story",
|
|
"Sorrow",
|
|
"The Requiem"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"high": 2,
|
|
"low": 4,
|
|
"middle": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "low",
|
|
"members": [
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 69,
|
|
"story": 5,
|
|
"predicament": "A woman who let her chance at happiness drift past sits with the man she might have had, both grown old and flat."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 70,
|
|
"story": 5,
|
|
"predicament": "Two people who let their chance pass mourn it together in silence, neither able to say what they both feel."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 114,
|
|
"story": 8,
|
|
"predicament": "A man who mistreated his spouse promises to change, and realises too late that she can no longer hear him."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 115,
|
|
"story": 8,
|
|
"predicament": "A man grieving a spouse is tormented that she died just as he finally felt sorry for how he treated her."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 116,
|
|
"story": 8,
|
|
"predicament": "A man who wasted a whole marriage in drink longs for one more chance to live it over properly."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 117,
|
|
"story": 8,
|
|
"predicament": "A man who has run out of time begs for a few more years to put right the duties he left undone."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 170,
|
|
"story": 14,
|
|
"predicament": "A stern parent at a child's memorial remembers how little attention he paid while she was growing up."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Say it now, late as it is.",
|
|
"source": "filled",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"tact": "-",
|
|
"relationships.lost": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Sit with it together in silence.",
|
|
"source": "scene:70",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"patience": "+",
|
|
"relationships.lost": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Promise to change.",
|
|
"source": "scene:114",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"flags.vowed": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Put right the duties you left undone.",
|
|
"source": "scene:117",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "-",
|
|
"standing": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G10",
|
|
"name": "Drawn to someone of another rank",
|
|
"predicament": "You are drawn to someone well above or below you, and the gap between you seems too wide to cross.",
|
|
"sentence": "A person drawn across a gap in rank wants the one they are drawn to from someone above or below them.",
|
|
"actor": "person drawn across a gap in rank",
|
|
"wants": "the one they are drawn to",
|
|
"counterpart": "someone above or below them",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
0,
|
|
5,
|
|
19
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"The Schoolmistress",
|
|
"A Lady's Story",
|
|
"The Beauties"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"low": 2,
|
|
"high": 4,
|
|
"middle": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "high",
|
|
"members": [
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 2,
|
|
"story": 0,
|
|
"predicament": "A woman of small means is drawn to a charming man above her, and is flustered in his company."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 5,
|
|
"story": 0,
|
|
"predicament": "A lonely woman imagines devoting herself to a man above her, then sees how impossible it is that they could ever be equals."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 65,
|
|
"story": 5,
|
|
"predicament": "A young woman of good family is swept up in a poorer companion's high spirits during an exhilarating afternoon together."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 66,
|
|
"story": 5,
|
|
"predicament": "A man declares his love to a woman far above him, asking nothing because he knows she can never be his."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 67,
|
|
"story": 5,
|
|
"predicament": "A young woman who has just been declared to is happier about her own advantages than sure of her feelings for him."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 68,
|
|
"story": 5,
|
|
"predicament": "Two people who care for each other let a difference in rank stand between them, and neither tries to cross it."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 212,
|
|
"story": 19,
|
|
"predicament": "Two men of different stations watch the same young woman pass, both knowing she will never notice them."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 216,
|
|
"story": 19,
|
|
"predicament": "A man pities someone stuck in a dull, lonely place, hopelessly in love with a beauty who will never notice him."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Declare yourself and ask for nothing.",
|
|
"source": "scene:66",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"standing": "risk",
|
|
"relationships.beloved": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Enjoy their admiration and decide nothing.",
|
|
"source": "scene:67",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"standing": "+",
|
|
"relationships.beloved": "risk"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Mock their world instead of trying to enter it.",
|
|
"source": "scene:68",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.beloved": "-",
|
|
"flags.bitter": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Keep your place.",
|
|
"source": "archetype",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"standing": "+",
|
|
"relationships.beloved": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G11",
|
|
"name": "Want nothing and nothing can hurt you",
|
|
"predicament": "After loss or hardship, you are tempted, or urged, to stop wanting anything at all so nothing can hurt you again.",
|
|
"sentence": "A person worn down by loss wants to stop hurting from their own longing.",
|
|
"actor": "person worn down by loss",
|
|
"wants": "to stop hurting",
|
|
"counterpart": "their own longing",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
6,
|
|
17,
|
|
20
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"In Exile",
|
|
"The Bet",
|
|
"The Shoemaker and the Devil"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"low": 5,
|
|
"high": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "low",
|
|
"members": [
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{
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"chunk": 72,
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"story": 6,
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"predicament": "A homesick newcomer is told by an old hand that the only way to endure is to stop wanting anything at all."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 73,
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"story": 6,
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"predicament": "A man who has lost everything insists he is free because he has trained himself to want nothing."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 78,
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"story": 6,
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"predicament": "A young man insists one brief happiness is worth any grief that follows, against an old man who wants nothing."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 197,
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"story": 17,
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"predicament": "A man who has given up years of his life for a prize discovers he no longer wants anything the world offers."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 226,
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"story": 20,
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"predicament": "A man who got what he envied finds it hollow and joyless, then wakes to find his old life waiting."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 227,
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"story": 20,
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"predicament": "A poor man reconciles himself to his lot, deciding nothing the rich have is worth what it would cost him."
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}
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],
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"options": [
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{
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"text": "Train yourself to want nothing.",
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"source": "scene:73",
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"moves": {
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"patience": "+",
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"relationships.family": "-",
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"flags.hardened": "set"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Take one day of happiness at any price.",
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"source": "scene:78",
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"moves": {
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"money": "risk",
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"relationships.family": "+"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Give up the prize you were chasing.",
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"source": "scene:197",
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"moves": {
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"money": "-",
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"standing": "+"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Make your peace with your lot.",
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"source": "scene:227",
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"moves": {
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"patience": "+"
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},
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"in_group": true
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "G12",
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"name": "Racing to save someone who is slipping away",
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"predicament": "Someone you love is failing, and you are spending everything you have to reach anyone who might save them.",
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"sentence": "A person whose loved one is failing wants help in time from whoever might save them.",
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"actor": "person whose loved one is failing",
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"wants": "help in time",
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"counterpart": "whoever might save them",
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"stories": [
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6,
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8
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],
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"story_titles": [
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"In Exile",
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"Sorrow"
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],
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"standing": {
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"low": 6
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},
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"stage": "low",
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"members": [
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{
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"chunk": 75,
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"story": 6,
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"predicament": "A man who drags a loved one into his hard lot spends everything trying to make it bearable for her."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 77,
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"story": 6,
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"predicament": "A father who pins all his remaining happiness on his child watches her waste away in a place with nothing for her."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 82,
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"story": 6,
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"predicament": "A desperate father makes yet another hopeless journey in bad weather for anyone who might save his child."
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},
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{
|
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"chunk": 110,
|
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"story": 8,
|
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"predicament": "A man who has neglected his spouse for years rushes her through a storm for help, afraid it is already too late."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 111,
|
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"story": 8,
|
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"predicament": "A man desperate for help from someone above him rehearses the scolding he expects to get for asking too late."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 112,
|
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"story": 8,
|
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"predicament": "A humble man plans to flatter and grovel before someone powerful, promising favours to win help for a loved one."
|
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}
|
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],
|
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"options": [
|
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{
|
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"text": "Drive through anything to reach help.",
|
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"source": "scene:110",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"money": "-",
|
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"relationships.family": "+"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
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"text": "Spend whatever it takes on one more hope.",
|
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"source": "scene:82",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"money": "-",
|
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"flags.desperate": "set"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
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{
|
|
"text": "Grovel before whoever can help.",
|
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"source": "scene:112",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"standing": "-",
|
|
"relationships.helper": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Accept that it is beyond help.",
|
|
"source": "archetype",
|
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"moves": {
|
|
"patience": "+",
|
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"relationships.family": "-"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": null
|
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}
|
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]
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"id": "G13",
|
|
"name": "At odds with a parent over the life you chose",
|
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"predicament": "You and a parent cannot accept how the other lives, and neither of you will give way.",
|
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"sentence": "A grown child wants to live their own way from a parent who disapproves.",
|
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"actor": "grown child",
|
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"wants": "to live their own way",
|
|
"counterpart": "a parent who disapproves",
|
|
"stories": [
|
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7,
|
|
11,
|
|
14
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
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"The Cattle-Dealers",
|
|
"A Tragic Actor",
|
|
"The Requiem"
|
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],
|
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"standing": {
|
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"middle": 7
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "middle",
|
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"members": [
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{
|
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"chunk": 91,
|
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"story": 7,
|
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"predicament": "A son who disappointed his family's hopes is reminded, in the middle of a hardship, that it is all his own fault."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 98,
|
|
"story": 7,
|
|
"predicament": "A grown child who disapproves of a parent's drinking speaks up, and is told to mind his place."
|
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},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 152,
|
|
"story": 11,
|
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"predicament": "A parent puts up with dull, shabby guests because they delight his child, not seeing where it is leading."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 153,
|
|
"story": 11,
|
|
"predicament": "A young woman who ran off with someone who only wanted her family's money is disowned by her family and mistreated."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 154,
|
|
"story": 11,
|
|
"predicament": "A young woman trapped with a cruel partner begs to be kept and writes home again for forgiveness and money."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 171,
|
|
"story": 14,
|
|
"predicament": "A parent who froze out his grown child over the life she chose remembers the visit when she tried to reach him."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 172,
|
|
"story": 14,
|
|
"predicament": "A grieving father cannot shake off his harsh judgement of his child even while praying for her."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Speak up to them.",
|
|
"source": "scene:98",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.parent": "-",
|
|
"flags.defied_parent": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Run off and do it anyway.",
|
|
"source": "scene:153",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"standing": "-",
|
|
"relationships.parent": "-",
|
|
"flags.disowned": "set"
|
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},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
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"text": "Write home asking forgiveness, and help.",
|
|
"source": "scene:154",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
|
"relationships.parent": "risk"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Go home and try to reach them.",
|
|
"source": "scene:171",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"tact": "+",
|
|
"relationships.parent": "risk"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Do as you are told.",
|
|
"source": "archetype",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"patience": "+",
|
|
"relationships.parent": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G14",
|
|
"name": "Frightened by something you cannot explain",
|
|
"predicament": "Something you cannot account for has frightened you, alone or far from help, and you must decide what to do.",
|
|
"sentence": "A frightened person wants to understand it, or get away from something unexplained.",
|
|
"actor": "frightened person",
|
|
"wants": "to understand it, or get away",
|
|
"counterpart": "something unexplained",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
1,
|
|
9,
|
|
15,
|
|
16
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"A Nervous Breakdown",
|
|
"On Official Duty",
|
|
"In the Coach-House",
|
|
"Panic Fears"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"middle": 2,
|
|
"low": 2,
|
|
"high": 7
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "high",
|
|
"members": [
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{
|
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"chunk": 33,
|
|
"story": 1,
|
|
"predicament": "A sensitive man alone at night feels a familiar collapse coming on, and cannot stop imagining others' misery as his own."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 129,
|
|
"story": 9,
|
|
"predicament": "A tired man in charge snaps at a humble helper who only wants to be sure he is not doing wrong."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 178,
|
|
"story": 15,
|
|
"predicament": "A child who has glimpsed a stranger's family in mourning is too frightened to sleep in a strange place."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 180,
|
|
"story": 15,
|
|
"predicament": "A frightened child is steadied by the ordinary company of adults carrying on as usual."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 182,
|
|
"story": 16,
|
|
"predicament": "A man on a familiar road notices something that should not be there and has no explanation for it."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 183,
|
|
"story": 16,
|
|
"predicament": "A man who cannot explain something strange is overtaken by dread, and his fear spreads to the child beside him."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 184,
|
|
"story": 16,
|
|
"predicament": "A man shaken by something he cannot explain delays going home, and never does learn what it was."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 185,
|
|
"story": 16,
|
|
"predicament": "A man walking home content is startled by something inexplicable rushing past him in the night."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 186,
|
|
"story": 16,
|
|
"predicament": "A man who has run in panic is told the plain explanation, and is ashamed of how frightened he was."
|
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},
|
|
{
|
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"chunk": 187,
|
|
"story": 16,
|
|
"predicament": "A tired man alone in the woods is unnerved by a harmless stranger he cannot account for."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 188,
|
|
"story": 16,
|
|
"predicament": "A man flees in terror from something harmless, and learns at home it was only a friend's lost pet."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Get away as fast as you can.",
|
|
"source": "scene:184",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"standing": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Find someone and ask what it was.",
|
|
"source": "scene:186",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.stranger": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Tell yourself it is nothing and carry on.",
|
|
"source": "archetype",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"patience": "+",
|
|
"flags.faced_fear": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Stay close to someone who is not afraid.",
|
|
"source": "scene:180",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.companion": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G15",
|
|
"name": "Far from home and your own people",
|
|
"predicament": "You are stuck far from home and the people you love, in a hard place that does not want you.",
|
|
"sentence": "A person far from home wants to be with their own people from a hard, strange place.",
|
|
"actor": "person far from home",
|
|
"wants": "to be with their own people",
|
|
"counterpart": "a hard, strange place",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
0,
|
|
6,
|
|
15
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"The Schoolmistress",
|
|
"In Exile",
|
|
"In the Coach-House"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"low": 6
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "low",
|
|
"members": [
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 1,
|
|
"story": 0,
|
|
"predicament": "A woman cut off from the family she came from has almost forgotten she ever had another life."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 71,
|
|
"story": 6,
|
|
"predicament": "A young man sent far from home against his will sits in a bleak place longing for the family he left behind."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 74,
|
|
"story": 6,
|
|
"predicament": "A man starting over in hard exile cannot stop hoping for help from the life he lost."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 80,
|
|
"story": 6,
|
|
"predicament": "A poor man longing for a loved one to join him realises he could not even feed her if she came."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 81,
|
|
"story": 6,
|
|
"predicament": "A homesick man dreams for a moment that his hardship was only a nightmare, then wakes to it again."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 179,
|
|
"story": 15,
|
|
"predicament": "A frightened child far from home begs to be taken back to his mother, and his guardian has no comfort to give."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Beg to be taken home.",
|
|
"source": "scene:179",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.guardian": "-",
|
|
"relationships.family": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Ask your people to come to you.",
|
|
"source": "scene:80",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "-",
|
|
"relationships.family": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Keep writing home for help.",
|
|
"source": "scene:74",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "risk",
|
|
"relationships.family": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Settle in and make the best of it.",
|
|
"source": "filled",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"patience": "+",
|
|
"money": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G16",
|
|
"name": "A stranger's death lands on you",
|
|
"predicament": "Someone you barely knew has died near you, and the aftermath has become your chore or your fright.",
|
|
"sentence": "A person drawn into the aftermath wants to be done with it from a stranger's tragedy.",
|
|
"actor": "person drawn into the aftermath",
|
|
"wants": "to be done with it",
|
|
"counterpart": "a stranger's tragedy",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
9,
|
|
15
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"On Official Duty",
|
|
"In the Coach-House"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"middle": 3,
|
|
"low": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "middle",
|
|
"members": [
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 118,
|
|
"story": 9,
|
|
"predicament": "Two men sent on a tiresome errand arrive late and cold, and find nobody ready for them."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 119,
|
|
"story": 9,
|
|
"predicament": "A man put out by someone else's tragedy complains that the dead person was selfish to inconvenience him."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 120,
|
|
"story": 9,
|
|
"predicament": "Two comfortable outsiders talk idly about a death that has left the ordinary people around them frightened and sleepless."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 174,
|
|
"story": 15,
|
|
"predicament": "A humble man caught up in a stranger's tragedy worries about being questioned over what little he saw."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 175,
|
|
"story": 15,
|
|
"predicament": "Onlookers gossip idly about a neighbour's sudden death, and quarrel over whether he deserves anyone's prayers at all."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Do what duty asks, and no more.",
|
|
"source": "scene:174",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"patience": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Complain about the inconvenience.",
|
|
"source": "scene:119",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"standing": "-",
|
|
"relationships.bereaved": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Get away somewhere comfortable until it is over.",
|
|
"source": "scene:130",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.neighbours": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": false
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Stay with the frightened people who cannot leave.",
|
|
"source": "filled",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"standing": "+",
|
|
"relationships.neighbours": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
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{
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"id": "G17",
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"name": "Covering up a disgrace",
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"predicament": "Something shameful has come to light, or is about to, and you could still hide it from those who would judge you.",
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"sentence": "A person with a disgrace to hide wants to keep their good name from those who would judge them.",
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"actor": "person with a disgrace to hide",
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"wants": "to keep their good name",
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"counterpart": "those who would judge them",
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"stories": [
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12,
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15,
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17
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],
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"story_titles": [
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"A Transgression",
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"In the Coach-House",
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"The Bet"
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],
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"standing": {
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"middle": 6,
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"low": 2,
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"high": 1
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},
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"stage": "middle",
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"members": [
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{
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"chunk": 155,
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"story": 12,
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"predicament": "A respectable married man, threatened with exposure over an old affair, finds the proof of it left on his doorstep."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 156,
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"story": 12,
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"predicament": "A man desperate to hide a past wrong from his spouse tries to get rid of the evidence before anyone notices."
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},
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{
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|
"chunk": 157,
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"story": 12,
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"predicament": "A man hurrying to cover up his wrong begins to see the innocent person who will pay for it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 158,
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|
"story": 12,
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|
"predicament": "A man torn between confessing to his spouse and keeping his reputation chooses the easy way, and is ashamed."
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},
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{
|
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"chunk": 159,
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"story": 12,
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"predicament": "A man who finally confesses a hidden wrong to his spouse learns the evidence he feared was never his at all."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 160,
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"story": 12,
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"predicament": "A man who confessed for nothing tries to take it back, and his spouse now knows the truth anyway."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 176,
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"story": 15,
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"predicament": "A grieving parent pays to have a disgraceful death covered up so the family can mourn with honour."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 177,
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"story": 15,
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"predicament": "A parent who hid a disgraceful death is haunted by it until she secretly undoes what she paid for."
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},
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|
{
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|
"chunk": 198,
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|
"story": 17,
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|
"predicament": "A man spared ruin by another's renunciation is ashamed of himself, yet still quietly secures his own advantage."
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}
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],
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"options": [
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{
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"text": "Get rid of the evidence quietly.",
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"source": "scene:156",
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"moves": {
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"tact": "+",
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"flags.secret_kept": "set"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
|
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"text": "Pay to have it smoothed over.",
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"source": "scene:176",
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|
"moves": {
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"money": "-",
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|
"standing": "+",
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|
"flags.secret_kept": "set"
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},
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|
"in_group": true
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|
},
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{
|
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"text": "Confess to those closest to you.",
|
|
"source": "scene:159",
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|
"moves": {
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"standing": "-",
|
|
"relationships.spouse": "risk"
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},
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|
"in_group": true
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|
},
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{
|
|
"text": "Call it a joke and take it back.",
|
|
"source": "scene:160",
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"moves": {
|
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"relationships.spouse": "-"
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},
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"in_group": true
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}
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]
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