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JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5 e5617b86ba Replace clustering with a catalogue, and hand-write the references to judge it against
The pipeline's embed-and-cluster step is dead, and this commit holds both the
evidence for that and the step proposed to replace it.

Predicaments. Scenes are re-described as "what the person is up against", with
no names, jobs or places, then embedded and clustered (redescribe.py,
topic_words.py, topic_share.py). The pilot chose qwen3:14b over 3b by reading
both side by side. Two defects the pilot exposed are fixed: split.py missed
titles in quotes and a contents subtitle after a dash, so three stories had been
merged into their neighbours, and strip_names.py read New York place names as
people. The corrected corpus is probe/v2 (97 stories, 839 scenes);
carry_summaries.py reuses the 829 unchanged v1 summaries. Topic share fell from
20% to 13% at k=60, short of the pre-registered 10%.

Hand references. Three corpora were read scene by scene and written up by hand,
under the same prompt rules the local models get, as a baseline to judge them
against: O. Henry (probe/v2/claude, 839 scenes, 20 situations), Wharton's
Descent of Man (probe/wharton, 262 scenes, 16 groups) and Jacobs's The Lady of
the Barge (probe/jacobs, 157 scenes, 19 groups). Each has its own README and a
readable page. No inference was used for any of them.

Catalogue. probe/catalogue maps every hand group in the three references onto 36
situation entries, with an answer key per corpus and one recurrence rule applied
to all three. classify.py assigns a scene one entry or none, leave-one-corpus-
out; score.py checks it against the key, with a self-test on random labels.

Why clustering is out: hand-written predicaments, embedded and clustered exactly
as the model's were, agree with the hand grouping at ARI 0.05 — no better than
the 14B text's 0.07. Better rewriting cannot rescue it. Embeddings cannot even
shortlist: the hand label is the nearest entry 13% of the time and in the top 8
half the time.

The classification runs are not here. The dev and test runs are pre-registered
in probe/catalogue/README.md with the bar set beforehand, and are blocked on the
inference host, whose GPU has fallen off the PCIe bus three times. The 30-scene
partial output in out/ is not a result.

Review page. The situation review is now a browser page rather than JSON edited
by hand (review_page.py, review_page_logic.cjs with Node tests, format schema
v2). It has never been rendered in a real browser.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014BygvsUXV9eU6oHkTCkKZ1
2026-09-20 17:19:42 -04:00

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"source": "hand-written by Claude, reading each scene",
"field": "predicament",
"summaries": [
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"summary": "Someone carries home a private excitement they mean to keep from everyone who knows them."
},
{
"chunk": 1,
"summary": "Someone long hemmed in by routine finally has time to themselves and means to use it."
},
{
"chunk": 2,
"summary": "Someone whose home life is secure but closed to what they care about lives the real part of life alone."
},
{
"chunk": 3,
"summary": "Someone's serious work earns respect but not enough money to satisfy the family that depends on it."
},
{
"chunk": 4,
"summary": "Someone forced to stop working steps back and wonders what their life's labour has amounted to in others' eyes."
},
{
"chunk": 5,
"summary": "Someone finds the thing they devoted themselves to taken up and cheapened by a crowd that does not understand it."
},
{
"chunk": 6,
"summary": "Someone offended by a popular falsehood decides to mock it, trusting that the crowd will see the joke."
},
{
"chunk": 7,
"summary": "Someone approaches an old friend for a favour, counting on the friend being unchanged by years of success."
},
{
"chunk": 8,
"summary": "Someone offers their work on the strength of friendship and refuses to haggle, trusting the other to see its worth."
},
{
"chunk": 9,
"summary": "Someone discovers that the person they confided in has completely misread what they meant."
},
{
"chunk": 10,
"summary": "Someone learns their joke has been taken in earnest by exactly the audience it mocked."
},
{
"chunk": 11,
"summary": "Someone explains their true intent and is told it hardly matters, since no one else will see it either."
},
{
"chunk": 12,
"summary": "Someone is offered success on condition they let the world believe something they do not believe."
},
{
"chunk": 13,
"summary": "Someone talks themselves into a deception by calling it a bigger version of what they meant all along."
},
{
"chunk": 14,
"summary": "Someone in a money pinch accepts a well-paid compromise, telling themselves it will cost them nothing that matters."
},
{
"chunk": 15,
"summary": "Someone who has kept a compromising success from their family is confronted by a proud spouse who found out elsewhere."
},
{
"chunk": 16,
"summary": "Someone watches something they quietly agreed to grow far larger and louder than they ever meant."
},
{
"chunk": 17,
"summary": "Someone embarrassed by their own success reads praise for the very thing they meant as a sham."
},
{
"chunk": 18,
"summary": "Someone who accepted a passing embarrassment learns it will follow them for years."
},
{
"chunk": 19,
"summary": "Someone resisting the demands of fame finds their family eager for the money it could bring."
},
{
"chunk": 20,
"summary": "Someone's family has run up costs on the strength of their success, and the only quick remedy is more of what they despise."
},
{
"chunk": 21,
"summary": "Someone breaks their own resolution because giving in is the quickest way to get peace at home."
},
{
"chunk": 22,
"summary": "Someone enjoying the attention their false reputation brings slips into living the part."
},
{
"chunk": 23,
"summary": "Someone sells their name more and more freely because it keeps the household comfortable."
},
{
"chunk": 24,
"summary": "Someone keeps a public persona and a private vocation apart, and wonders what their peers really think."
},
{
"chunk": 25,
"summary": "Someone uses ill-gotten means to fund their real ambition and needs an honest judge to test it."
},
{
"chunk": 26,
"summary": "Someone ready to do their real work finds the backer they relied on now wants something first."
},
{
"chunk": 27,
"summary": "Someone is offered money to repeat a sham and must choose between it and the real work they want to do."
},
{
"chunk": 28,
"summary": "Someone who meant to refuse a tempting compromise gives in, promising themselves it is only a delay."
},
{
"chunk": 29,
"summary": "Someone starting a new life with a partner hopes the fresh start will be as happy as it feels."
},
{
"chunk": 30,
"summary": "Someone's new household is disrupted at once by a crisis inherited from their partner's past."
},
{
"chunk": 31,
"summary": "Someone has married a person with a talked-about past and has chosen to believe the kindest version of it."
},
{
"chunk": 32,
"summary": "Someone goes ahead with a choice that friends openly warn against, confident they know better."
},
{
"chunk": 33,
"summary": "Someone's comfortable new start is interrupted by a claim from their partner's former spouse."
},
{
"chunk": 34,
"summary": "Someone must let an unwelcome person into their home because that person has a right they cannot refuse."
},
{
"chunk": 35,
"summary": "Someone trying to avoid one awkward encounter is thrown into another with a rival they cannot snub."
},
{
"chunk": 36,
"summary": "Someone seeks refuge from a painful private situation in extra work."
},
{
"chunk": 37,
"summary": "Someone stewing over an awkward situation watches a rival who seems not to feel it at all."
},
{
"chunk": 38,
"summary": "Someone troubled by a situation finds their partner untroubled and wonders what that means."
},
{
"chunk": 39,
"summary": "Someone catches an unintended glimpse of their partner's past habits and cannot un-see it."
},
{
"chunk": 40,
"summary": "Someone is asked by a superior to serve a person they would rather avoid, and cannot refuse without harming the firm."
},
{
"chunk": 41,
"summary": "Someone forced to do business with a rival tries to come out of it looking the more composed."
},
{
"chunk": 42,
"summary": "Someone comes face to face with a person they had imagined as a villain and finds them harmless."
},
{
"chunk": 43,
"summary": "Someone must be civil to a person whose very presence in their home they resent."
},
{
"chunk": 44,
"summary": "Someone glimpses their partner's hidden origins and begins to doubt who they really married."
},
{
"chunk": 45,
"summary": "Someone begins to suspect a partner of misleading them, just as the person misled about asks for their help."
},
{
"chunk": 46,
"summary": "Someone learns from an outsider that their partner lied to them, while being asked to intervene in a family matter."
},
{
"chunk": 47,
"summary": "Someone must pass on a claim from a person they have come to respect, against their own partner's wishes."
},
{
"chunk": 48,
"summary": "Someone presses a partner to honour an obligation, and the partner responds with tears instead of answers."
},
{
"chunk": 49,
"summary": "Someone must keep working closely with a person they would rather avoid, because their position demands it."
},
{
"chunk": 50,
"summary": "Someone finds their partner on friendly terms with a former lover and is offered whatever rule they want to set."
},
{
"chunk": 51,
"summary": "Someone realises the partner they admired for ease simply gives way to everyone, and must decide whether to mind."
},
{
"chunk": 52,
"summary": "Someone feels they hold only part of a person whose loyalties are shared with others from their past."
},
{
"chunk": 53,
"summary": "Someone trades their scruples for comfort, little by little, and learns to call it a bargain."
},
{
"chunk": 54,
"summary": "Someone who once resented an intruder finds themselves at ease with him."
},
{
"chunk": 55,
"summary": "Someone is caught in a room with two people from their partner's past, and no one knows how to behave."
},
{
"chunk": 56,
"summary": "Someone must host, in one room, people whose claims on them conflict."
},
{
"chunk": 57,
"summary": "Someone in an absurd position chooses to laugh and go along rather than make a scene."
},
{
"chunk": 58,
"summary": "Someone who has done something bold in public dreads the moment a disapproving elder relative hears of it."
},
{
"chunk": 59,
"summary": "Someone is mortified that their spouse's naive enthusiasm will expose them in front of the people they fear."
},
{
"chunk": 60,
"summary": "Someone who meant to provoke now worries about what it will cost the family whose name they used."
},
{
"chunk": 61,
"summary": "Someone proud of their courage is told bluntly that the risk they fear is exactly what would bring success."
},
{
"chunk": 62,
"summary": "Someone claims to speak for others who have suffered, and is warned by one of them that it may not be welcome."
},
{
"chunk": 63,
"summary": "Someone in authority rewards the relative who flatters them and resents the one who went her own way."
},
{
"chunk": 64,
"summary": "Someone tries to steer an elder away from a dangerous topic by flattering them, and is caught not knowing their work."
},
{
"chunk": 65,
"summary": "Someone admits the only thing that would help their failing work is a public scandal they cannot decently arrange."
},
{
"chunk": 66,
"summary": "Someone needs money for a cause and wishes they could be attacked in public to get it."
},
{
"chunk": 67,
"summary": "Someone betrays their own worry and is immediately asked by an elder to tone down their work."
},
{
"chunk": 68,
"summary": "Someone is lectured by an elder who assumes they could not have meant to give offence."
},
{
"chunk": 69,
"summary": "Someone who meant to stand by their choice finds themselves backing down before an elder's authority."
},
{
"chunk": 70,
"summary": "Someone's eager spouse forces a private worry into the open before exactly the wrong witness."
},
{
"chunk": 71,
"summary": "Someone is frustrated by a spouse whose unconditional approval makes nothing they do matter."
},
{
"chunk": 72,
"summary": "Someone tries to provoke a reaction from a partner and gets only praise, which defeats the purpose."
},
{
"chunk": 73,
"summary": "Someone must sit through a public verdict on their work in front of the person they most wanted to keep it from."
},
{
"chunk": 74,
"summary": "Someone who wanted to shock is dismissed as harmless, which wounds more than condemnation would."
},
{
"chunk": 75,
"summary": "Someone who staked their pride on being taken seriously finds everyone treats them as tame."
},
{
"chunk": 76,
"summary": "Someone learns that a rival's approval was a way of smothering them, and is advised to provoke an attack instead."
},
{
"chunk": 77,
"summary": "Someone is told that merit counts for nothing and that the way to succeed is to engineer a scandal."
},
{
"chunk": 78,
"summary": "Someone who has quietly benefited from a public attack defends the attacker's motives to an outsider."
},
{
"chunk": 79,
"summary": "Someone enjoys a success whose real origin they cannot admit to the people praising them."
},
{
"chunk": 80,
"summary": "Someone hears a rival take credit for an outcome they secretly paid for."
},
{
"chunk": 81,
"summary": "Someone must smile through backhanded praise from people who think they were rightly punished."
},
{
"chunk": 82,
"summary": "Someone savours public attention that exists only because of an arrangement nobody else knows about."
},
{
"chunk": 83,
"summary": "Someone emboldened by success prepares to go further, while waiting to hear how their secret part is described."
},
{
"chunk": 84,
"summary": "Someone fears a public speaker is about to reveal the secret deal they struck."
},
{
"chunk": 85,
"summary": "Someone sits exposed to public attention, waiting to learn whether they are about to be named."
},
{
"chunk": 86,
"summary": "Someone expecting to be exposed instead hears another person take all the credit for what they did."
},
{
"chunk": 87,
"summary": "Someone who secretly bought a favour cannot claim credit for it without admitting the bargain."
},
{
"chunk": 88,
"summary": "Someone down on their luck and unable to find work is offered a way back by a well-wisher."
},
{
"chunk": 89,
"summary": "Someone who badly needs a place takes one they have been frankly warned will be hard."
},
{
"chunk": 90,
"summary": "Someone arrives at a new post with an unexplained warning about the person in charge."
},
{
"chunk": 91,
"summary": "Someone new to a household notices something odd that the others refuse to discuss."
},
{
"chunk": 92,
"summary": "Someone meets a new employer and feels an immediate loyalty they did not expect."
},
{
"chunk": 93,
"summary": "Someone new notices an unexplained habit in how they are treated and cannot ask why."
},
{
"chunk": 94,
"summary": "Someone asks innocent questions and finds the people around them evasive."
},
{
"chunk": 95,
"summary": "Someone senses a household secret, and everyone they ask shuts the conversation down."
},
{
"chunk": 96,
"summary": "Someone in service must work around a master everyone fears and the mistress shrinks from."
},
{
"chunk": 97,
"summary": "Someone lonely in an unhappy marriage finds comfort in one kind friend."
},
{
"chunk": 98,
"summary": "Someone watches their employer endure a spouse's coarseness and can say nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 99,
"summary": "Someone in a comfortable position cannot shake a sense of dread they cannot explain."
},
{
"chunk": 100,
"summary": "Someone uneasy in their post learns that others have heard things about it."
},
{
"chunk": 101,
"summary": "Someone hears their predecessors all quit, and finds the staff relieved they did not."
},
{
"chunk": 102,
"summary": "Someone overhears a jealous quarrel between their employers and must pretend not to have."
},
{
"chunk": 103,
"summary": "Someone is called in the night by a summons that should not have come."
},
{
"chunk": 104,
"summary": "Someone answering a call at night must walk where something frightening has just gone, and is met by a hostile master."
},
{
"chunk": 105,
"summary": "Someone is sent on a discreet errand that seems meant to be hidden from the head of the house."
},
{
"chunk": 106,
"summary": "Someone fears their employer means to harm themselves, and checks quietly without betraying them."
},
{
"chunk": 107,
"summary": "Someone is questioned by a suspicious superior and must decide whether to lie to protect another."
},
{
"chunk": 108,
"summary": "Someone who wants to flee a frightening post stays out of loyalty, and then finds proof their fear was real."
},
{
"chunk": 109,
"summary": "Someone who brings evidence to a colleague is brushed off, while the tension in the household grows."
},
{
"chunk": 110,
"summary": "Someone lives in constant dread at their post yet cannot make themselves give notice."
},
{
"chunk": 111,
"summary": "Someone becomes the only support of a failing employer and feels bound to stay."
},
{
"chunk": 112,
"summary": "Someone who has just let their guard down is confronted with the thing they feared."
},
{
"chunk": 113,
"summary": "Someone is silently begged for help by a figure who cannot say what it needs."
},
{
"chunk": 114,
"summary": "Someone is led to a place where they must act, without knowing what they are meant to do."
},
{
"chunk": 115,
"summary": "Someone given a warning they cannot interpret is left alone with a secret they cannot name."
},
{
"chunk": 116,
"summary": "Someone covering for what they saw goes to bed uneasy, sure something is about to happen."
},
{
"chunk": 117,
"summary": "Someone who comes to help is sent away by the person they came for, who is plainly hiding something."
},
{
"chunk": 118,
"summary": "Someone must try to stop a furious spouse bursting in on what he believes is a betrayal."
},
{
"chunk": 119,
"summary": "Someone who tried to shield their employer's secret sees the confrontation end in death all the same."
},
{
"chunk": 120,
"summary": "Someone senses their spouse is hiding something and teases it out of them."
},
{
"chunk": 121,
"summary": "Someone who has always given way to a spouse announces a wish they know will be opposed."
},
{
"chunk": 122,
"summary": "Someone discovers that their spouse has carried a deep disappointment they never noticed."
},
{
"chunk": 123,
"summary": "Someone realises their neglect has left a partner lonely for years."
},
{
"chunk": 124,
"summary": "Someone asks a reluctant partner for the one thing they want, promising it will cost the partner nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 125,
"summary": "Someone agrees to a partner's wish they would normally mock, as a way of making amends."
},
{
"chunk": 126,
"summary": "Someone who has kept the letter of a commitment realises they have neglected its spirit."
},
{
"chunk": 127,
"summary": "Someone watches their partner's devotion shift wholly to someone new and feels shut out."
},
{
"chunk": 128,
"summary": "Someone who has given way on the big question digs in on a small one and starts to regret giving way."
},
{
"chunk": 129,
"summary": "Someone finds a change they dreaded is milder than feared, but it makes a partner more of what they already were."
},
{
"chunk": 130,
"summary": "Someone is drawn into a role they never chose, and puts up with it because it makes a partner happy."
},
{
"chunk": 131,
"summary": "Someone gives ground at home again and again until they have almost no room left."
},
{
"chunk": 132,
"summary": "Someone who feels out of their depth hands a responsibility to a partner they consider more capable."
},
{
"chunk": 133,
"summary": "Someone admits they are not up to a task and asks another to take it on."
},
{
"chunk": 134,
"summary": "Someone takes on a protégé who turns out to be clever but cold and conceited."
},
{
"chunk": 135,
"summary": "Someone at home is bossed and corrected by a young person who has made themselves everyone's guardian."
},
{
"chunk": 136,
"summary": "Someone cannot rein in a difficult young person without wounding the partner who adores them."
},
{
"chunk": 137,
"summary": "Someone watches a young person take out their disappointment on a devoted parent, then turn it on them."
},
{
"chunk": 138,
"summary": "Someone longing to be free of a burden sees a chance of it and dares not say so."
},
{
"chunk": 139,
"summary": "Someone hoping for a match that would relieve them must pretend indifference while it hangs in the balance."
},
{
"chunk": 140,
"summary": "Someone longs for a decision that is entirely in another's hands, and that person insists on delaying it."
},
{
"chunk": 141,
"summary": "Someone must decide whether to warn an outsider about a relative's faults, at the risk of losing a longed-for outcome."
},
{
"chunk": 142,
"summary": "Someone who speaks an honest warning is rebuffed as disloyal, and finds the result a relief."
},
{
"chunk": 143,
"summary": "Someone waits through a nerve-racking final stretch, fearing any accident could undo the outcome they need."
},
{
"chunk": 144,
"summary": "Someone who has endured a long strain alongside a partner finds it has finally brought them together."
},
{
"chunk": 145,
"summary": "Someone watches their partner suddenly start proclaiming in public views they once kept carefully private."
},
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"chunk": 146,
"summary": "Someone keeps up a social position by borrowing other people's boldness."
},
{
"chunk": 147,
"summary": "Someone who once pushed a daring idea is uneasy now it is being preached, and looks for someone to blame."
},
{
"chunk": 148,
"summary": "Someone is asked point-blank whether they still believe what they once championed, and cannot answer honestly."
},
{
"chunk": 149,
"summary": "Someone asks their partner to stop something the partner says they began only to please them."
},
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"chunk": 150,
"summary": "Someone is asked to justify a feeling they cannot put into words."
},
{
"chunk": 151,
"summary": "Someone is challenged by their partner over whether they still hold to the terms of their bond."
},
{
"chunk": 152,
"summary": "Someone who has quietly changed their mind argues around it rather than admit it."
},
{
"chunk": 153,
"summary": "Someone hears their partner openly confess an interest in someone else."
},
{
"chunk": 154,
"summary": "Someone who once left a partner was praised for it, and never had to count the cost."
},
{
"chunk": 155,
"summary": "Someone looks back on a partner who stifled them, and half wonders whether they judged fairly."
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"chunk": 156,
"summary": "Someone who once escaped a stifling bond is haunted by the hurt they left behind."
},
{
"chunk": 157,
"summary": "Someone enters a new commitment on the promise that either may walk away freely."
},
{
"chunk": 158,
"summary": "Someone finds that the freedom they insisted on would destroy them if used against them."
},
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"chunk": 159,
"summary": "Someone reads a partner's new kindness as a sign of bad news and presses for the truth."
},
{
"chunk": 160,
"summary": "Someone who once used a principle for their own ends has it turned against them."
},
{
"chunk": 161,
"summary": "Someone is held to a promise they made when they never thought it would be used against them."
},
{
"chunk": 162,
"summary": "Someone keeps their word with dignity and is left with nothing they thought was theirs."
},
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"chunk": 163,
"summary": "Someone whose life has broken apart finds everything around them unchanged and unbearable."
},
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"chunk": 164,
"summary": "Someone looks for a way to fight a loss and realises the rules trapping them are their own."
},
{
"chunk": 165,
"summary": "Someone rushes to warn a rival and, finding them gone, is left with nowhere to go."
},
{
"chunk": 166,
"summary": "Someone at the end of their strength stops in a strange place to steady themselves."
},
{
"chunk": 167,
"summary": "Someone gives up a rash plan and is left with no idea what to do next."
},
{
"chunk": 168,
"summary": "Someone turns up, unannounced, at the door of a person they once wronged."
},
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"chunk": 169,
"summary": "Someone forces a meeting with a former partner who would rather not see them."
},
{
"chunk": 170,
"summary": "Someone asks a former partner for a hearing and is told to go through proper channels."
},
{
"chunk": 171,
"summary": "Someone confesses their humiliation to the very person who once suffered the same thing at their hands."
},
{
"chunk": 172,
"summary": "Someone who once inflicted a hurt now feels it themselves, and needs the person they hurt to know it."
},
{
"chunk": 173,
"summary": "Someone seeks forgiveness from a person they wronged, and leaves before anything more can be said."
},
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"chunk": 174,
"summary": "Someone hired for one task is quietly asked to draw out secrets their employer keeps to himself."
},
{
"chunk": 175,
"summary": "Someone at the end of their working life looks back on a time when loyalty was tested under threat of death."
},
{
"chunk": 176,
"summary": "Someone finally admits a past act they are ashamed of, now that those it touched are dead."
},
{
"chunk": 177,
"summary": "Someone sent to aid a secret cause enjoys the danger and the society it brings."
},
{
"chunk": 178,
"summary": "Someone falls for a person devoted to a cause, whose family history is steeped in betrayal."
},
{
"chunk": 179,
"summary": "Someone's family is broken by an innocent relative's execution on the flimsiest pretext."
},
{
"chunk": 180,
"summary": "Someone channels grief and an unhappy marriage into secret work for a cause."
},
{
"chunk": 181,
"summary": "Someone supports a grieving parent whose motives for the shared cause are narrower than their own."
},
{
"chunk": 182,
"summary": "Someone longs to bring a grieving parent the one comfort they cannot obtain."
},
{
"chunk": 183,
"summary": "Someone grieving is shut out of the comfort every other bereaved family shares."
},
{
"chunk": 184,
"summary": "Someone loves a person who loves only their cause, and a rival stands between them and their own hopes."
},
{
"chunk": 185,
"summary": "Someone plays a double life for years, their loyalty hidden behind a respectable front."
},
{
"chunk": 186,
"summary": "Someone rejected for a rival lashes out at the person they want, and loses them."
},
{
"chunk": 187,
"summary": "Someone who has quarrelled with the person they love takes on a new task rather than make the first move."
},
{
"chunk": 188,
"summary": "Someone stumbles on proof that could destroy a rival and feels the power it gives them."
},
{
"chunk": 189,
"summary": "Someone tempted by jealousy convinces themselves that a rival's old act proves him a traitor."
},
{
"chunk": 190,
"summary": "Someone lets jealousy override their judgement and hurries to use damaging evidence."
},
{
"chunk": 191,
"summary": "Someone holds evidence they cannot honourably keep back, and knows handing it over will destroy a rival."
},
{
"chunk": 192,
"summary": "Someone delivers joyful news knowing that a bitter revelation comes attached to it."
},
{
"chunk": 193,
"summary": "Someone confronts another with damning evidence about the person they love, and meets calm disbelief."
},
{
"chunk": 194,
"summary": "Someone asks a rival for an honest answer that may condemn the person they trust, and gets it."
},
{
"chunk": 195,
"summary": "Someone pushes another to condemn a person they love, and is told the act was justified."
},
{
"chunk": 196,
"summary": "Someone defends a painful betrayal as a necessary sacrifice for a greater cause."
},
{
"chunk": 197,
"summary": "Someone is asked to keep a secret that will deny a grieving person the comfort they long for."
},
{
"chunk": 198,
"summary": "Someone gives up the thing their own family most needs to protect a person who will never know."
},
{
"chunk": 199,
"summary": "Someone who has moved on to a new commitment returns to an old intimate as if nothing had changed."
},
{
"chunk": 200,
"summary": "Someone who once regretted committing themselves now takes pleasure in never committing to anyone."
},
{
"chunk": 201,
"summary": "Someone has shaped another person to fit their convenience and admires the result."
},
{
"chunk": 202,
"summary": "Someone realises that a cautious move of theirs betrayed distrust of a person who deserved better."
},
{
"chunk": 203,
"summary": "Someone newly in love seeks out an old confidant to share it, without thinking what it costs them."
},
{
"chunk": 204,
"summary": "Someone expects an old arrangement to continue and is told it is ending."
},
{
"chunk": 205,
"summary": "Someone learns that the person they are about to marry went behind their back to an old intimate."
},
{
"chunk": 206,
"summary": "Someone discovers their fiancée has been asking about their past with another person."
},
{
"chunk": 207,
"summary": "Someone who thought their past was their own business finds it standing in the way of their future."
},
{
"chunk": 208,
"summary": "Someone who thought themselves innocent learns the harm lay in what they withheld."
},
{
"chunk": 209,
"summary": "Someone is made to see, through an outsider's eyes, how they have used another person's devotion."
},
{
"chunk": 210,
"summary": "Someone who has been used offers to sacrifice their own name to save the person who used them."
},
{
"chunk": 211,
"summary": "Someone offered an easy escape at another's expense refuses it, and learns they may not need one."
},
{
"chunk": 212,
"summary": "Someone whose whole life centres on one person senses that person is in trouble and waits to be told."
},
{
"chunk": 213,
"summary": "Someone sees a person they know intimately in an unfamiliar state and feels shut out."
},
{
"chunk": 214,
"summary": "Someone is turned down by the person they love because of the source of their income."
},
{
"chunk": 215,
"summary": "Someone is asked to give up their livelihood as the price of being loved."
},
{
"chunk": 216,
"summary": "Someone is held up as an example in an argument they would rather not be drawn into."
},
{
"chunk": 217,
"summary": "Someone resents a person who has hurt their child, and is asked not to show it."
},
{
"chunk": 218,
"summary": "Someone is asked by the person they love most to plead a case they privately doubt."
},
{
"chunk": 219,
"summary": "Someone goes to plead on another's behalf in a place where they feel they have no footing."
},
{
"chunk": 220,
"summary": "Someone tries to persuade a person of firm principle, and their own example is used against them."
},
{
"chunk": 221,
"summary": "Someone argues with a young person who insists on giving up happiness for a principle."
},
{
"chunk": 222,
"summary": "Someone urges a younger person to compromise, and is told their plea proves the danger."
},
{
"chunk": 223,
"summary": "Someone who cannot help a suffering child looks for solace of their own."
},
{
"chunk": 224,
"summary": "Someone cut off from a loved one by an unspoken hurt comes face to face with its cause."
},
{
"chunk": 225,
"summary": "Someone reaches out to a former adversary and is coldly rebuffed."
},
{
"chunk": 226,
"summary": "Someone who once refused an offer comes back to say they have changed their mind, and asks if it still stands."
},
{
"chunk": 227,
"summary": "Someone who argued for a compromise now confesses they knew all along it was wrong."
},
{
"chunk": 228,
"summary": "Someone about to make a hopeful sacrifice is told by an older person that they made the same one and regret it."
},
{
"chunk": 229,
"summary": "Someone breaks a lifetime's silence to save a younger person from their own fate."
},
{
"chunk": 230,
"summary": "Someone discovers that the comfort they have enjoyed is paid for by something shameful."
},
{
"chunk": 231,
"summary": "Someone watching another confess something painful wants to spare them."
},
{
"chunk": 232,
"summary": "Someone who meant to refuse tainted money comes to depend on it to save a person they love."
},
{
"chunk": 233,
"summary": "Someone who compromised long ago pins their hope of release on the next generation."
},
{
"chunk": 234,
"summary": "Someone finds that the person they raised has embraced the very thing they wanted to escape."
},
{
"chunk": 235,
"summary": "Someone makes peace with a loved one's flaw by refusing to look at it."
},
{
"chunk": 236,
"summary": "Someone lays bare their own ruin to warn another, then leaves them to make the choice alone."
},
{
"chunk": 237,
"summary": "Someone young and newly free arrives in a place they have dreamed of all their life."
},
{
"chunk": 238,
"summary": "Someone brings a child's romantic picture of a place to the real thing."
},
{
"chunk": 239,
"summary": "Someone raised under strict rules longs for a place where the rules do not apply."
},
{
"chunk": 240,
"summary": "Someone under a guardian's supervision slips away to do what they want."
},
{
"chunk": 241,
"summary": "Someone who shows they are a naive newcomer with money is approached by a helpful stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 242,
"summary": "Someone new in a strange place gratefully accepts a guide whose credentials they cannot check."
},
{
"chunk": 243,
"summary": "Someone who has promised to be back on time lets a new acquaintance talk them into one more detour."
},
{
"chunk": 244,
"summary": "Someone receives a secret appeal for help and is immediately caught holding it."
},
{
"chunk": 245,
"summary": "Someone accused of an offence they do not understand is steered by a friend towards a private settlement."
},
{
"chunk": 246,
"summary": "Someone being led away is denied the chance to tell anyone where they are."
},
{
"chunk": 247,
"summary": "Someone who has escaped their captors is cornered, and must trust an unknown rescuer."
},
{
"chunk": 248,
"summary": "Someone who answered a call for help is told they were not the one it was meant for."
},
{
"chunk": 249,
"summary": "Someone learns they have been caught up in another person's desperate plan by mistake."
},
{
"chunk": 250,
"summary": "Someone is confronted by an angry family and depends on a go-between who speaks for them."
},
{
"chunk": 251,
"summary": "Someone accused of compromising another must defend themselves without exposing them."
},
{
"chunk": 252,
"summary": "Someone could clear themselves by producing evidence, but the person it would expose begs them not to."
},
{
"chunk": 253,
"summary": "Someone who keeps another's secret is told the price is a lifelong obligation."
},
{
"chunk": 254,
"summary": "Someone is trapped and given an hour before a forced commitment they never sought."
},
{
"chunk": 255,
"summary": "Someone trapped alongside another hears their tale of being forced into a match and wants to save them."
},
{
"chunk": 256,
"summary": "Someone is offered a way out, provided they accept terms they will not like."
},
{
"chunk": 257,
"summary": "Someone learns they can buy their way out of a trap, and that is exactly what the trap was for."
},
{
"chunk": 258,
"summary": "Someone offers themselves to rescue another and is refused."
},
{
"chunk": 259,
"summary": "Someone who has fallen for another begins to sense they are being played."
},
{
"chunk": 260,
"summary": "Someone discovers they were the mark in a confidence trick just as rescue arrives."
},
{
"chunk": 261,
"summary": "Someone who has been swindled is rescued by their elders and must walk away from a person they had fallen for."
}
]
}