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JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5 3a4758172d story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3
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
2026-10-07 06:05:51 -04:00

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{
"groups": [
{
"id": "G01",
"name": "A word from someone powerful",
"predicament": "What you want will go to whoever has someone powerful speaking for them, and nobody powerful is speaking for you.",
"sentence": "A junior with no connections wants a good place from someone with influence.",
"actor": "junior with no connections",
"wants": "a good place",
"counterpart": "someone with influence",
"stories": [
3,
4,
11,
16,
21
],
"story_titles": [
"Miss Youghal'S Sais",
"Yoked With An Unbeliever",
"Consequences",
"The House Of Suddhoo",
"A Bank Fraud"
],
"standing": {
"middle": 4,
"low": 3
},
"stage": "middle",
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"predicament": "Exposed while defending a woman, a man turns the powerful person he just threatened into an ally against her disapproving parents."
},
{
"chunk": 35,
"story": 3,
"predicament": "A powerful patron's word wins over parents who refused a suitor on his own merits, and their consent comes almost at once."
},
{
"chunk": 37,
"story": 4,
"predicament": "A shiftless young man is packed off to a distant post a relative arranged, vowing to reform, save money and return to marry."
},
{
"chunk": 92,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "A clever, charming junior stuck in an obscure post wants a permanent, well-paid place near the top, and has no connections at all."
},
{
"chunk": 93,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "A clever junior does an influential woman a daring favour, and asks her in return to win him a good appointment."
},
{
"chunk": 127,
"story": 16,
"predicament": "An old man counts you his friend because your word once got his relative a post, and expects great things of you in return."
},
{
"chunk": 172,
"story": 21,
"predicament": "A subordinate does not know he got his post through a patron's favour, and is about to lose it to someone else's favourite."
}
],
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{
"text": "Do someone influential a daring favour, then ask for yours.",
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"relationships.patron": "+",
"flags.favour_owed": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Take the place your family arranged, and be grateful.",
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"relationships.family": "+",
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},
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},
{
"text": "Turn the powerful person you offended into your ally.",
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"relationships.patron": "+",
"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Find out whose favourite is after your place.",
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"moves": {
"cunning": "+",
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},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Let your work speak for itself, and wait.",
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"moves": {
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": null
}
]
},
{
"id": "G02",
"name": "The power behind the title",
"predicament": "The person with the title is not the one who decides, and the one who really does answers to nobody.",
"sentence": "A person below wants to stay on the right side of the real power from someone with sway but no title.",
"actor": "person below",
"wants": "to stay on the right side of the real power",
"counterpart": "someone with sway but no title",
"stories": [
9,
11,
13,
14
],
"story_titles": [
"Watches Of The Night",
"Consequences",
"A Germ Destroyer",
"Kidnapped"
],
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"low": 1,
"middle": 1
},
"stage": "high",
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"story": 9,
"predicament": "A superior's spouse who manufactures scandal has already wrecked marriages and engagements, and everyone beneath her fears her tongue."
},
{
"chunk": 94,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "An influential woman sets out to win a post for her protege, while those at the top grow obsessed with keeping everything secret."
},
{
"chunk": 106,
"story": 13,
"predicament": "A leader's officious right hand keeps pulling matters outside his remit into his own grasp, and the leader simply lets him do it."
},
{
"chunk": 111,
"story": 13,
"predicament": "The one at the top retells a comic tale until his overbearing right hand takes the hint, resigns, and leaves with glowing praise."
},
{
"chunk": 116,
"story": 14,
"predicament": "Friends arrange for a young man to be carried off until the day he was to marry has passed, leaving the bride's family humiliated."
}
],
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{
"text": "Court them quietly, as everyone else does.",
"source": "archetype",
"moves": {
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"standing": "+"
},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Keep out of their way and give them nothing to talk about.",
"source": "filled",
"moves": {
"tact": "+"
},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Ask them to use their pull for you, and leave the rest to them.",
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"flags.in_their_debt": "set"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Let them overreach, then tell the story against them in public.",
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"moves": {
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"relationships.power_broker": "-",
"standing": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Defy them, whatever they say about you afterwards.",
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"moves": {
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"flags.made_an_enemy": "set"
},
"in_group": false
}
]
},
{
"id": "G03",
"name": "One chance to be heard at the top",
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"sentence": "A person with a case wants a hearing from someone at the very top.",
"actor": "person with a case",
"wants": "a hearing",
"counterpart": "someone at the very top",
"stories": [
11,
13,
22
],
"story_titles": [
"Consequences",
"A Germ Destroyer",
"Tod'S Amendment"
],
"standing": {
"low": 2,
"high": 5
},
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},
{
"chunk": 99,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Unable to block him, those at the top give a troublesome junior the post he wanted, and warn him never to try it again."
},
{
"chunk": 108,
"story": 13,
"predicament": "Getting a word with the person at the top is nearly impossible, unless you are grand enough to demand an audience."
},
{
"chunk": 109,
"story": 13,
"predicament": "A gatekeeper's slip hands an obscure enthusiast the private audience meant for someone grand, and he means to make the most of it."
},
{
"chunk": 110,
"story": 13,
"predicament": "Granted one private audience with the person at the top, an outsider makes a spectacular scene, and the leader roars with laughter."
},
{
"chunk": 184,
"story": 22,
"predicament": "Relaying what the people affected actually say, a child explains exactly why a well-meant rule from above will hurt them."
},
{
"chunk": 185,
"story": 22,
"predicament": "Convinced by an unexpected voice from below, a powerful rule-maker quietly consults the people affected and changes the rule."
}
],
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{
"text": "Go straight to the most powerful person you can reach, and show what you know.",
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"standing": "risk",
"relationships.the_top": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Put your case plainly and let it stand.",
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"moves": {
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"relationships.the_top": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Make a spectacle of it, so they cannot forget you.",
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"moves": {
"standing": "risk",
"relationships.the_top": "+",
"flags.made_a_scene": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Win over someone they already listen to.",
"source": "filled",
"moves": {
"tact": "+",
"relationships.go_between": "+"
},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Go through the proper channels, and wait.",
"source": "archetype",
"moves": {
"relationships.gatekeeper": "+"
},
"in_group": null
}
]
},
{
"id": "G04",
"name": "A change imposed by someone who does not know the ground",
"predicament": "Someone set over you is imposing a change on something they do not understand, and nobody who knows better has been asked.",
"sentence": "A person below wants the old ways kept, or at least a say from someone newly in charge.",
"actor": "person below",
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"counterpart": "someone newly in charge",
"stories": [
11,
22,
25,
29
],
"story_titles": [
"Consequences",
"Tod'S Amendment",
"The Rout Of The White Hussars",
"The Gate Of A Hundred Sorrows"
],
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"high": 2,
"middle": 2
},
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},
{
"chunk": 180,
"story": 22,
"predicament": "Those at the top write a rule to protect people they have never asked, and get the most important point wrong."
},
{
"chunk": 181,
"story": 22,
"predicament": "Someone conscientious at the top drafts a rule for people he has never spoken with, and everyone between is too busy to warn him."
},
{
"chunk": 205,
"story": 25,
"predicament": "A new superior insults a proud company and gets rid of the beloved symbol of its pride on a whim."
},
{
"chunk": 206,
"story": 25,
"predicament": "When a new superior sells off what his people hold sacred, their offer to buy it back is forbidden as insubordination."
},
{
"chunk": 247,
"story": 29,
"predicament": "When a careful host dies, his successor cuts corners everywhere, and the old regulars can only grumble among themselves."
}
],
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{
"text": "Obey, and keep your opinion to yourself.",
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"relationships.company": "-"
},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Offer to put it right yourselves, at your own cost.",
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"relationships.company": "+",
"relationships.superior": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Get the facts to them through someone they will listen to.",
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"moves": {
"tact": "+",
"relationships.superior": "+"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Work quietly round the order.",
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"relationships.superior": "risk",
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},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Grumble with the others, and change nothing.",
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"moves": {
"relationships.company": "+"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G05",
"name": "Knowing what goes on below",
"predicament": "You know what really goes on among people nobody above you bothers to ask, and that knowledge could settle a matter.",
"sentence": "A person who mixes below wants to put what they know to use from those who never ask.",
"actor": "person who mixes below",
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"counterpart": "those who never ask",
"stories": [
3,
22,
26,
34
],
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"Miss Youghal'S Sais",
"Tod'S Amendment",
"The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case",
"To Be Held For Reference"
],
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"high": 2,
"low": 1
},
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},
{
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"story": 22,
"predicament": "A child who mixes freely with everyone at the bottom hears what the people at the top never do."
},
{
"chunk": 182,
"story": 22,
"predicament": "At a gathering, a child who talks with ordinary people offers a powerful guest a view nobody else present has heard."
},
{
"chunk": 221,
"story": 26,
"predicament": "Friends of a falsely accused man call in the one person who can find the truth, and he secretly proves it is a frame-up."
},
{
"chunk": 222,
"story": 26,
"predicament": "At the hearing, a man who knows every witness's secret merely lets them see him, and the key witness collapses and recants."
},
{
"chunk": 279,
"story": 34,
"predicament": "A fallen man patronises his visitor as ignorant of everything around him, while living contentedly by ways his old world despises."
}
],
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{
"text": "Tell the people at the top what they have not heard.",
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"moves": {
"standing": "+",
"relationships.the_top": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Go among them yourself, quietly, and find out.",
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"standing": "risk",
"flags.went_among_them": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Let the liars see that you know, and watch them fold.",
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"moves": {
"cunning": "+",
"relationships.accuser": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Keep it to yourself: nobody above values it anyway.",
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"moves": {
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Trade what you know for a better place.",
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"money": "+",
"relationships.the_top": "+",
"relationships.informants": "-"
},
"in_group": null
}
]
},
{
"id": "G06",
"name": "Good work that counts for nothing",
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"sentence": "A capable junior wants credit for good work from those above who take it.",
"actor": "capable junior",
"wants": "credit for good work",
"counterpart": "those above who take it",
"stories": [
2,
3,
23,
32
],
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"Thrown Away",
"Miss Youghal'S Sais",
"In The Pride Of His Youth",
"Wressley Of The Foreign Office"
],
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"middle": 2,
"high": 1
},
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},
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},
{
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"story": 3,
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},
{
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"predicament": "A junior works like two men for more money, but those above him pay by age, not merit, and refuse him a real rise."
},
{
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"story": 32,
"predicament": "In a big undertaking, one expert does the real work while those above him repeat his words and collect the credit."
}
],
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{
"text": "Keep doing it well, and say nothing.",
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},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Go back to doing it your own way once their anger passes.",
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"moves": {
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},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Take nothing seriously, since good work goes to others anyway.",
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},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Make sure the right person sees what you did.",
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}
]
},
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12,
20,
21,
23,
24,
32
],
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"In Error",
"A Bank Fraud",
"In The Pride Of His Youth",
"Pig",
"Wressley Of The Foreign Office"
],
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"middle": 2,
"high": 2
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},
{
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"story": 20,
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},
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"predicament": "Hiding a dying subordinate's dismissal, his superior takes on double work and patiently endures his lectures and ingratitude."
},
{
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"story": 23,
"predicament": "Secretly supporting a family, a junior lives so meanly that his colleagues shun him as a miser, and he cannot explain why."
},
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"story": 24,
"predicament": "Eager not to look ignorant, a conscientious junior sits up nights answering endless requests on top of his real work."
},
{
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"story": 24,
"predicament": "Question after question draws a conscientious man into ever longer answers, every page carefully filed by the one who means him harm."
},
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"predicament": "An indispensable worker is kept at his desk by praise from above, while almost nobody knows who he is or what he does."
},
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"predicament": "Working blind for someone else's sake, a man toils day and night and produces the finest work of his whole life."
}
],
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"text": "Sit up nights and get it all done.",
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},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Keep going on their praise alone.",
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"moves": {
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"flags.overworked": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Tell someone what you are carrying.",
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"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Find your own private relief, and tell nobody.",
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"moves": {
"standing": "risk",
"flags.secret_vice": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Take the rest you are owed.",
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"moves": {
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": null
}
]
},
{
"id": "G08",
"name": "The strain gives way",
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"sentence": "A person at breaking point wants to recover without losing everything from those who see it.",
"actor": "person at breaking point",
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"counterpart": "those who see it",
"stories": [
12,
18,
20,
23,
24
],
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"The Conversion Of Aurelian Mcgoggin",
"The Broken Link Handicapped",
"In Error",
"In The Pride Of His Youth",
"Pig"
],
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"middle": 2
},
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},
{
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"story": 12,
"predicament": "After a breakdown he cannot explain, a proud young man is humbled, frightened and sent away for months to rest."
},
{
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"predicament": "His nerve broken for good, a ruined competitor begs to be dismissed and walks away while others sneer at him."
},
{
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"story": 20,
"predicament": "A man's hidden weakness finally breaks out, and in his collapse he pours out everything he had kept locked away."
},
{
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"story": 23,
"predicament": "Just as a broken young man resigns in despair, those above him finally offer the promotion that would have saved everything."
},
{
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"story": 24,
"predicament": "After more than a year of pointless demands, an exhausted man lets slip one flippant reply to the person who keeps asking."
}
],
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{
"text": "Take leave, and go away to mend.",
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"moves": {
"standing": "-",
"flags.on_leave": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Throw it all up and walk away.",
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"moves": {
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"money": "-",
"flags.walked_out": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Beg to be let go quietly.",
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"moves": {
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"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Let it be passed off as illness, and carry on.",
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"moves": {
"standing": "+",
"flags.covered_up": "set"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Snap back at whoever pushed you there.",
"source": "scene:201",
"moves": {
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"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G09",
"name": "The rules nobody tells you",
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"sentence": "A newcomer wants to fit in on their own terms from the old hands.",
"actor": "newcomer",
"wants": "to fit in on their own terms",
"counterpart": "the old hands",
"stories": [
2,
12,
17,
21
],
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"Thrown Away",
"The Conversion Of Aurelian Mcgoggin",
"His Wedded Wife",
"A Bank Fraud"
],
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"middle": 2
},
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},
{
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},
{
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},
{
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"text": "Ask someone you trust what is expected.",
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4,
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"text": "Tell the comforting lie that spares you a scene.",
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28
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"text": "Laugh at the reward that came too late, and walk away.",
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