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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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{
"model": "claude-opus-5 (in-session, by hand)",
"note": "Written by Claude (claude-opus-5) directly in a Claude Code session on 2026-09-17, one scene at a time, reading each story's scenes in order, following the same rules as the prompt below. No API call and no post-processing: names were kept out by the writer, not stripped afterwards.",
"prompt": "You describe the predicament of the main person in a passage of fiction, in ONE sentence.\n\nA predicament is what that person is up against and what they want out of it: the kind of trouble or opportunity that could happen to anyone, in any line of work, in any town.\n\nRules:\n- Exactly one sentence, at most 20 words.\n- Leave out everything that ties it to this story: no names, no jobs or professions, no places, no businesses, and no objects that only belong to this story.\n- Say what the person is up against, and what they want.\n- Do not describe the writing, the mood, or who is telling the story.\n- Output only the sentence.",
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"summary": "Someone's private occasion becomes the spectacle that a crowd has come to feed on."
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"summary": "Someone's lifelong habit makes them miss the one occasion that was theirs."
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"summary": "Someone receives an awkward sum on condition they explain exactly what they did with it."
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"summary": "Someone tests a cheap intention against the people around them, and finds nobody impressed."
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"chunk": 67,
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"story": 9,
"summary": "Someone brings a grand partner home, where the old familiarity and the new grandeur cannot mix."
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"summary": "Someone returning to where they came from feels the person beside them turn into a stranger."
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"summary": "Someone sheds the manner they built, in front of the one person it was built for."
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"summary": "Someone waits for the judgement they are sure they have earned."
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"summary": "Someone at their lowest meets a stranger terrified by the good fortune about to arrive."
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"story": 10,
"summary": "Someone spends the last of their credit on a stranger rather than on themselves."
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"summary": "Someone is promised help by a person whose fortune has not yet arrived."
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"chunk": 91,
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"chunk": 92,
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"summary": "A working person and an admired one share a place daily without either being anything to the other."
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"chunk": 93,
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"summary": "Someone used to admiration meets a person who will not give it, and keeps asking."
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"chunk": 95,
"story": 12,
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"chunk": 96,
"story": 12,
"summary": "Someone wins another's devotion, finds it worthless, and is undone by news of their own."
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"summary": "A place remakes everyone who enters it into its own shape."
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"chunk": 98,
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"summary": "An inherited quarrel consumes everyone until only its two last holders are left."
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"chunk": 99,
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"summary": "Someone carries an old obligation of vengeance into a place where it has no standing."
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"chunk": 100,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Someone arrives to do what they came for and finds the place itself defeats them."
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"chunk": 101,
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"summary": "Someone surrounded by people is more alone than they have ever been, and unwanted."
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"chunk": 102,
"story": 13,
"summary": "Someone meets the enemy they came to destroy and finds them the only familiar face."
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"summary": "Someone declares the thing they live for extinct, to a listener who does not care."
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{
"chunk": 104,
"story": 14,
"summary": "Someone holds out against every offer to give up what they love."
},
{
"chunk": 105,
"story": 14,
"summary": "Someone keeps a companion around chiefly to feel superior to them."
},
{
"chunk": 106,
"story": 14,
"summary": "Someone whose work goes unheard is consoled by a stranger glimpsed at a distance."
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{
"chunk": 107,
"story": 14,
"summary": "Someone reads a message meant for another as a sign addressed to themselves."
},
{
"chunk": 108,
"story": 14,
"summary": "Someone assembles proof of their good fortune while the truth walks in and out of the room."
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{
"chunk": 109,
"story": 14,
"summary": "Someone's private sign is explained away by the ordinary arrangement of two other people."
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"story": 15,
"summary": "An order given for people's good turns them out of their homes."
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{
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"story": 15,
"summary": "Someone is told by an official to leave a comfortable home and has no appeal."
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{
"chunk": 112,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Someone is rescued from a life they were content with, by people who never asked."
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"chunk": 113,
"story": 15,
"summary": "People forced together in the dark can tell friend from stranger only by touch."
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"chunk": 114,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Someone pays for a home they are not allowed to sleep in."
},
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"chunk": 115,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Forced together, people who despised each other by daylight find they can pair off."
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"story": 15,
"summary": "Someone comfortable asks why others are suffering, and promises to see to it."
},
{
"chunk": 117,
"story": 16,
"summary": "Someone is unsettled by a feeling they cannot name and will not admit."
},
{
"chunk": 118,
"story": 16,
"summary": "Someone denies a change that everyone around them can feel."
},
{
"chunk": 119,
"story": 16,
"summary": "Someone's usual pleasures stop satisfying them, and they take it out on bystanders."
},
{
"chunk": 120,
"story": 16,
"summary": "Someone denies what is happening to them and picks a fight instead."
},
{
"chunk": 121,
"story": 16,
"summary": "Someone approaches the person they want with a pretext instead of a reason."
},
{
"chunk": 122,
"story": 16,
"summary": "Someone finally names what they want, and the weather no longer decides anything."
},
{
"chunk": 123,
"story": 17,
"summary": "People invoke an imagined punisher for the foolishness they see in each other."
},
{
"chunk": 124,
"story": 17,
"summary": "Someone's work is handed to another who remakes it wrongly and publicly."
},
{
"chunk": 125,
"story": 17,
"summary": "Someone loves a person far below their family's expectations, and does not hide it."
},
{
"chunk": 126,
"story": 17,
"summary": "Someone gives up a fortune rather than give up the person they intend to marry."
},
{
"chunk": 127,
"story": 17,
"summary": "Someone judges another's choice foolish even after meeting what they chose."
},
{
"chunk": 128,
"story": 17,
"summary": "Someone commits to a plan they cannot afford, and is told so by a friend."
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{
"chunk": 129,
"story": 17,
"summary": "Someone is given a last ultimatum by an authority whose threat no longer reaches them."
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{
"chunk": 130,
"story": 17,
"summary": "Someone believes they alone can see a danger and rushes to avert it."
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{
"chunk": 131,
"story": 17,
"summary": "Someone confronts the old power that punishes the young for choosing differently."
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{
"chunk": 132,
"story": 17,
"summary": "Someone asks about the person they objected to, and begins to reconsider."
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{
"chunk": 133,
"story": 17,
"summary": "An estranged parent yields, and the quarrel that cost a fortune ends with a handshake."
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{
"chunk": 134,
"story": 18,
"summary": "People guard a comfortable refuge and fear the crowd that would spoil it."
},
{
"chunk": 135,
"story": 18,
"summary": "Someone's bearing alone persuades everyone around them of a station they never state."
},
{
"chunk": 136,
"story": 18,
"summary": "Two strangers each arrive carrying an account of themselves that the place is eager to believe."
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{
"chunk": 137,
"story": 18,
"summary": "Two people flatter each other with a shared complaint neither has the standing to make."
},
{
"chunk": 138,
"story": 18,
"summary": "Two people approach the end of a pretence that neither wants to be the first to break."
},
{
"chunk": 139,
"story": 18,
"summary": "Someone confesses the truth about themselves rather than leave the other deceived."
},
{
"chunk": 140,
"story": 18,
"summary": "Someone answers another's confession with the same one, and the pretence becomes a shared joke."
},
{
"chunk": 141,
"story": 19,
"summary": "Someone who left a small place is now the judge of who may imitate it."
},
{
"chunk": 142,
"story": 19,
"summary": "Someone studies another's origins in order to pass a test only that person can set."
},
{
"chunk": 143,
"story": 19,
"summary": "Someone enters a room where they plainly do not belong, and is watched by everyone."
},
{
"chunk": 144,
"story": 19,
"summary": "News of the place someone escaped pulls their attention away from all their present company."
},
{
"chunk": 145,
"story": 19,
"summary": "Someone asks a stranger for news of the family they have not visited."
},
{
"chunk": 146,
"story": 19,
"summary": "Someone is shown how long they have been waited for by the people they left."
},
{
"chunk": 147,
"story": 19,
"summary": "Someone laughs off what moved them, then abandons everything to go back."
},
{
"chunk": 148,
"story": 20,
"summary": "Someone must act against a person they owe a debt of friendship to."
},
{
"chunk": 149,
"story": 20,
"summary": "Someone's own gift becomes the evidence that convicts the person they gave it to."
},
{
"chunk": 150,
"story": 20,
"summary": "Someone escapes justice by holding an old favour over the person who must judge them."
},
{
"chunk": 151,
"story": 20,
"summary": "Someone is stopped from doing their duty by a debt they never repaid."
},
{
"chunk": 152,
"story": 20,
"summary": "Someone repaying an old kindness discovers the person they are protecting deserves nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 153,
"story": 20,
"summary": "Someone's vanity drives them to taunt the one power they have not accounted for."
},
{
"chunk": 154,
"story": 20,
"summary": "Someone proves their boast by handing over the one fact that can convict them."
},
{
"chunk": 155,
"story": 20,
"summary": "Someone celebrates their safety while the person beside them looks for a way out."
},
{
"chunk": 156,
"story": 20,
"summary": "Someone finds a way to do their duty and clear their debt at the same time."
},
{
"chunk": 157,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Someone leaves a small place for a bold life and arrives as nobody in particular."
},
{
"chunk": 158,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Someone pays for training from a teacher who has nothing to teach them."
},
{
"chunk": 159,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Someone worn down by failures accepts an invitation they would otherwise refuse."
},
{
"chunk": 160,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Someone is taken into a world they have only read about, on another's introduction."
},
{
"chunk": 161,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Someone out of their depth speaks of home and is heard as a curiosity."
},
{
"chunk": 162,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Someone judges one evening as the ruin of their whole character, and gives up their future."
},
{
"chunk": 163,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Someone commits to a grand ruin that nobody else has noticed happening."
},
{
"chunk": 164,
"story": 21,
"summary": "Someone's grand renunciation is ended by the plain arrival of the person renounced."
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"chunk": 165,
"story": 22,
"summary": "People arriving with nothing find shelter among others like them and are quickly replaced."
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{
"chunk": 166,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Someone working in a poor household is courted by the one person there who pays."
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{
"chunk": 167,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Someone doubts a suitor's fine manners, fearing they mean debts rather than fortune."
},
{
"chunk": 168,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Someone is taken somewhere impressive by a suitor whose means they cannot account for."
},
{
"chunk": 169,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Someone sees their companion greeted as a great person by a room full of strangers."
},
{
"chunk": 170,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Someone's fear of a suitor's grand pretensions peaks just before the truth arrives."
},
{
"chunk": 171,
"story": 22,
"summary": "Someone learns their suitor is a worker, not a gentleman, and is glad of it."
},
{
"chunk": 172,
"story": 23,
"summary": "Someone's days are identical and the one thing they want keeps being refused."
},
{
"chunk": 173,
"story": 23,
"summary": "Someone starved of novelty welcomes an approach that anyone else would avoid."
},
{
"chunk": 174,
"story": 23,
"summary": "Someone asks a stranger for the one expertise they lack, offering candour in exchange."
},
{
"chunk": 175,
"story": 23,
"summary": "Someone hears their own faults catalogued and asks for the rest of the list."
},
{
"chunk": 176,
"story": 23,
"summary": "Someone proves their trust by returning what they had already taken from the person trusting them."
},
{
"chunk": 177,
"story": 23,
"summary": "Someone brings an outsider among their set and the outsider outshines all of them."
},
{
"chunk": 178,
"story": 23,
"summary": "Someone's help is repaid with an offer they may never be able to use."
},
{
"chunk": 179,
"story": 23,
"summary": "Someone stops asking for what they wanted, and is given it at once."
},
{
"chunk": 180,
"story": 24,
"summary": "Someone out of work waits in cheap lodgings for the only work they want."
},
{
"chunk": 181,
"story": 24,
"summary": "Someone among many in the same trade waits, with all of them chasing the same few places."
},
{
"chunk": 182,
"story": 24,
"summary": "Someone abandons a profitable performance because of what it required them to be."
},
{
"chunk": 183,
"story": 24,
"summary": "Someone returns abruptly from the life they left, upset and not yet saying why."
},
{
"chunk": 184,
"story": 24,
"summary": "Someone leaves good work because of what they must endure from the people around it."
},
{
"chunk": 185,
"story": 24,
"summary": "Someone knows they will never rise, and keeps at it anyway for want of a better hope."
},
{
"chunk": 186,
"story": 24,
"summary": "Someone starting a new life quickly finds the respectable future they thought impossible."
},
{
"chunk": 187,
"story": 24,
"summary": "Someone hiding their own past learns the person they love keeps a locked one."
},
{
"chunk": 188,
"story": 24,
"summary": "Someone questions a partner about an old attachment and is given an answer too good to doubt."
},
{
"chunk": 189,
"story": 24,
"summary": "Someone's admiration for another leads them to look at the one thing kept from them."
},
{
"chunk": 190,
"story": 24,
"summary": "Someone discovers the truth in a keepsake and ends everything without saying what they saw."
},
{
"chunk": 191,
"story": 25,
"summary": "People look down on a trade they secretly wish they were fit for."
},
{
"chunk": 192,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Someone works a trade for years, competent and unremarkable, waiting for the thing that lifts them."
},
{
"chunk": 193,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Someone weary of their own trade is stopped short by one person doing it well."
},
{
"chunk": 194,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Someone finds the one person who fits the plan they have kept to themselves for years."
},
{
"chunk": 195,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Someone offers their guarded work and finds it improved by the person they offered it to."
},
{
"chunk": 196,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Someone states plainly that they are in this for money, before agreeing to anything."
},
{
"chunk": 197,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Two people agree to work together on the condition that nothing personal enters it."
},
{
"chunk": 198,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Two people grind a shared piece of work into shape over many months."
},
{
"chunk": 199,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Two people build their living on a performance that requires one of them to shoot accurately."
},
{
"chunk": 200,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Someone concludes the person they love has robbed them, on the evidence of who was there."
},
{
"chunk": 201,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Someone aims a shot to prove mercy, and hits the thing that clears the accused."
},
{
"chunk": 202,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Someone proposes an arrangement to another on the grounds that it will save them both money."
},
{
"chunk": 203,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Two people build savings and a spotless name by never once being seen to enjoy themselves."
},
{
"chunk": 204,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Someone's nerve fails once at the exact thing they have done perfectly a thousand times."
},
{
"chunk": 205,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Someone is told that the person nearest them loves them, and cannot believe it."
},
{
"chunk": 206,
"story": 25,
"summary": "Someone hears that love has arrived and answers that the arrangement was settled long ago."
},
{
"chunk": 207,
"story": 26,
"summary": "Exiles gather in one place to plan a return that most of them will never make."
},
{
"chunk": 208,
"story": 26,
"summary": "Someone arrives in a strange city on an errand for their country, conspicuous in every way."
},
{
"chunk": 209,
"story": 26,
"summary": "Someone on an errand is distracted at once by what they find where they lodge."
},
{
"chunk": 210,
"story": 26,
"summary": "Someone helpless in a strange place is helped by the person planning to rob them."
},
{
"chunk": 211,
"story": 26,
"summary": "Someone announces a secret errand and its funds to a stranger at the top of their voice."
},
{
"chunk": 212,
"story": 26,
"summary": "Someone is promised access to a great official by the one person who has befriended them."
},
{
"chunk": 213,
"story": 26,
"summary": "Someone arranges for an accomplice to impersonate the authority their mark is expecting."
},
{
"chunk": 214,
"story": 26,
"summary": "Someone insults, in passing, the one person able to ruin their scheme."
},
{
"chunk": 215,
"story": 26,
"summary": "Someone about to be cheated is taken aside by the person who sees through it."
},
{
"chunk": 216,
"story": 26,
"summary": "Someone abandons the cause they were entrusted with for a comfortable life and a marriage."
},
{
"chunk": 217,
"story": 26,
"summary": "Someone explains away a betrayal as good sense, and recommends the life they chose."
},
{
"chunk": 218,
"story": 27,
"summary": "Someone past their best moves to richer ground on a colleague's advice."
},
{
"chunk": 219,
"story": 27,
"summary": "Someone is urged into a scheme by a partner who insists it cannot fail."
},
{
"chunk": 220,
"story": 27,
"summary": "Someone doubts a partner's confidence about a place they do not yet know."
},
{
"chunk": 221,
"story": 27,
"summary": "Someone doubts the large opportunity and misses the modest certainty they left."
},
{
"chunk": 222,
"story": 27,
"summary": "Two people pool everything they have and are promptly introduced to a great man."
},
{
"chunk": 223,
"story": 27,
"summary": "Someone hears what a rich person desperately wants, moments before appearing to find it."
},
{
"chunk": 224,
"story": 27,
"summary": "Someone spots the chance that has been placed in front of them and hurries to take it."
},
{
"chunk": 225,
"story": 27,
"summary": "Two people spend everything on a certainty and find they were the marks all along."
},
{
"chunk": 226,
"story": 28,
"summary": "People keep an occasion whose meaning none of them can say."
},
{
"chunk": 227,
"story": 28,
"summary": "Someone's day of freedom is watched wistfully by a person who cannot leave the room."
},
{
"chunk": 228,
"story": 28,
"summary": "Someone answers a mild wish with anger, and is told the old one is wandering in mind."
},
{
"chunk": 229,
"story": 28,
"summary": "Someone goes about asking others to explain a thing nobody around them understands."
},
{
"chunk": 230,
"story": 28,
"summary": "Someone taking a holiday they do not enjoy looks for a reason in every face they pass."
},
{
"chunk": 231,
"story": 28,
"summary": "Someone hears the thing they needed said, without knowing they have heard it."
},
{
"chunk": 232,
"story": 28,
"summary": "Someone suddenly understands what a neglected person had been asking them for."
},
{
"chunk": 233,
"story": 28,
"summary": "Someone resumes a small duty they had dropped, and finds it was everything to another."
},
{
"chunk": 234,
"story": 29,
"summary": "People with nowhere to sleep line up nightly for a stranger's charity."
},
{
"chunk": 235,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone dismissed for their own fault has fallen further than they can climb back."
},
{
"chunk": 236,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone at the bottom looks for company and asks a neighbour how they fell."
},
{
"chunk": 237,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone cut off by their family for a marriage has nothing left and no way to work."
},
{
"chunk": 238,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone hoping for a small tip is instead taken up by a stranger for unexplained reasons."
},
{
"chunk": 239,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone brought into a stranger's house is left alone among things they cannot explain."
},
{
"chunk": 240,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone's fright breaks their host's property just as the real business begins."
},
{
"chunk": 241,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone is promised good fortune and asks only for their old place back."
},
{
"chunk": 242,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone who has paid for years for hope is close to giving it up."
},
{
"chunk": 243,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone stakes their credibility on producing the person another is desperate to see."
},
{
"chunk": 244,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone is thrown out the moment they turn out not to be who was wanted."
},
{
"chunk": 245,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone back at the bottom is found by the person who never stopped looking."
},
{
"chunk": 246,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone newly rescued asks for money for the stranger who is worse off."
},
{
"chunk": 247,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone missing for years is found beside the person who was being searched for."
},
{
"chunk": 248,
"story": 29,
"summary": "Someone who was thrown out never learns they were the reason everything came right."
},
{
"chunk": 249,
"story": 30,
"summary": "The real thing is rejected as a fake, so someone submits a fake instead."
},
{
"chunk": 250,
"story": 30,
"summary": "Someone genuinely out of place is taken for a bad imitation of themselves."
},
{
"chunk": 251,
"story": 30,
"summary": "Someone honest is warned by a cheat that their appearance is unconvincing."
},
{
"chunk": 252,
"story": 30,
"summary": "Someone shows real money and is complimented on a good prop."
},
{
"chunk": 253,
"story": 30,
"summary": "Someone cannot get anyone to take their money, because nobody believes it is theirs."
},
{
"chunk": 254,
"story": 30,
"summary": "Someone is refused everywhere and decides the problem is how they are dressed."
},
{
"chunk": 255,
"story": 30,
"summary": "Someone made themselves look worth robbing, and immediately was."
},
{
"chunk": 256,
"story": 30,
"summary": "A judge praises the imitation for the very quality the real thing was denied."
},
{
"chunk": 257,
"story": 31,
"summary": "Someone's whole standing rests on an appearance that takes constant work to keep."
},
{
"chunk": 258,
"story": 31,
"summary": "Someone disappears completely, leaving those who knew them no reason at all."
},
{
"chunk": 259,
"story": 31,
"summary": "Someone is found living a life nobody who knew them would have predicted."
},
{
"chunk": 260,
"story": 31,
"summary": "Someone who lived for elegance is seen content among the plainest of things."
},
{
"chunk": 261,
"story": 31,
"summary": "Someone found in a new life shows no embarrassment and asks after the old one's fashions."
},
{
"chunk": 262,
"story": 31,
"summary": "Someone explains a life-changing choice by a reason nobody else can take seriously."
},
{
"chunk": 263,
"story": 32,
"summary": "Someone whose trade is deception rests where nobody knows them."
},
{
"chunk": 264,
"story": 32,
"summary": "Someone explains that one group must bargain constantly for what the other simply holds."
},
{
"chunk": 265,
"story": 32,
"summary": "Someone argues that every exchange of affection for money is the same transaction."
},
{
"chunk": 266,
"story": 32,
"summary": "Someone with money enough to live on cannot buy the one thing they want: notice."
},
{
"chunk": 267,
"story": 32,
"summary": "Someone offers to sell another the attention they have failed to buy honestly."
},
{
"chunk": 268,
"story": 32,
"summary": "Three people contract to stage a betrayal for the publicity the trial will bring."
},
{
"chunk": 269,
"story": 32,
"summary": "Someone stages their own humiliation in public and is proud of how it looks."
},
{
"chunk": 270,
"story": 32,
"summary": "Two people hired to stage a courtship carry it through for real and pay nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 271,
"story": 33,
"summary": "Someone from far away is separated from their companions and swamped by a crowd."
},
{
"chunk": 272,
"story": 33,
"summary": "Someone greets an old friend in the manner of home, which here looks like assault."
},
{
"chunk": 273,
"story": 33,
"summary": "Someone finds an old friend remade by the place they settled in, and says so."
},
{
"chunk": 274,
"story": 33,
"summary": "Someone defends the soft life they chose to a person who knew them hard."
},
{
"chunk": 275,
"story": 33,
"summary": "Someone is told they have been ruined by comfort and can only agree."
},
{
"chunk": 276,
"story": 33,
"summary": "Someone mocking a way of life keeps looking at it more closely than they admit."
},
{
"chunk": 277,
"story": 33,
"summary": "Someone who came to scorn a place starts pricing what it would cost to stay."
},
{
"chunk": 278,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone grows rich by taking a little from everyone who cannot avoid buying."
},
{
"chunk": 279,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone inherits a fortune and returns to the friend who despises how it was made."
},
{
"chunk": 280,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone wanting to undo an inherited wrong is told restitution is impossible."
},
{
"chunk": 281,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone offers money to repair harm and is told money cannot reach it."
},
{
"chunk": 282,
"story": 34,
"summary": "One person's profit destroyed a small tradesman and everyone who depended on him."
},
{
"chunk": 283,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone meets the person their family ruined and is refused even a hearing."
},
{
"chunk": 284,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone shut out by an injured person returns and marries them instead."
},
{
"chunk": 285,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone cannot make the expected joke of a story and gives it to another."
},
{
"chunk": 286,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone who lost a rivalry makes a last desperate appeal on the day it is settled."
},
{
"chunk": 287,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone refuses an advance and is seen at the worst possible instant."
},
{
"chunk": 288,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone is cast off over an innocent moment and waits decades without explanation."
},
{
"chunk": 289,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone refuses every new offer out of loyalty to a person long vanished."
},
{
"chunk": 290,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone believes a stranger is the person who left them, and waits to be told."
},
{
"chunk": 291,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone offers marriage while admitting they do not know who they are."
},
{
"chunk": 292,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone bound by an old vow is asked by two people to choose between them."
},
{
"chunk": 293,
"story": 34,
"summary": "Someone learns their long loyalty was to the wrong person, and runs to the right one."
},
{
"chunk": 294,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone worn down by years of work ignores a warning that they will break."
},
{
"chunk": 295,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone comes to themselves among strangers with money and no idea who they are."
},
{
"chunk": 296,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone with no identity invents one from whatever is nearest to hand."
},
{
"chunk": 297,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone hears their own condition dismissed as a fraud by a stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 298,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone reads a description of a missing person and defends them without recognising themselves."
},
{
"chunk": 299,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone cut loose from every obligation finds the feeling exhilarating rather than frightening."
},
{
"chunk": 300,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone tasting complete liberty discovers it is bounded by rules nobody states."
},
{
"chunk": 301,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone recognised by a stranger denies their own name and moves on."
},
{
"chunk": 302,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone is claimed by a person from a past they cannot remember."
},
{
"chunk": 303,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone denying their past is told, happily, by another that the denial is false."
},
{
"chunk": 304,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone holding to an invention is brought face to face with the people they left."
},
{
"chunk": 305,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone refuses to acknowledge the person who has been searching for them."
},
{
"chunk": 306,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone is told who they are and treats it as a conversation about a stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 307,
"story": 35,
"summary": "Someone ends a holiday from themselves deliberately, having never lost anything at all."
},
{
"chunk": 308,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone insists that the dull place everyone dismisses can hold anything."
},
{
"chunk": 309,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone arrives somewhere expecting nothing and finds nothing to contradict them."
},
{
"chunk": 310,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone looks for life in a strange town and is told there is none."
},
{
"chunk": 311,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone instantly dislikes a stranger who is determined to be their friend."
},
{
"chunk": 312,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone is annexed as a friend by a person they cannot easily shake off."
},
{
"chunk": 313,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone lives on money that plainly is not theirs, and boasts about it."
},
{
"chunk": 314,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone tolerates a nuisance rather than take a hand in getting rid of them."
},
{
"chunk": 315,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone keeps the ruins of a fine thing repaired with whatever comes to hand."
},
{
"chunk": 316,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone's whole means of earning is held together by makeshift repairs."
},
{
"chunk": 317,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone asking to visit a household is questioned closely by the person guarding it."
},
{
"chunk": 318,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone overcharges a stranger and admits it, saying only that they must have the money."
},
{
"chunk": 319,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone of old family receives a visitor with dignity in a house stripped of everything."
},
{
"chunk": 320,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone sent to strike a hard bargain finds they cannot raise the subject."
},
{
"chunk": 321,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone quietly contradicts a visitor's certainty that nothing happens where they live."
},
{
"chunk": 322,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone shows that the quiet place is as cruel as anywhere, then goes to answer a knock."
},
{
"chunk": 323,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone's small store of money is taken from them by force in the next room."
},
{
"chunk": 324,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone lies to their employer to get a poor person paid more than they asked."
},
{
"chunk": 325,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone sees the money they gave away turn up in the hands of a wastrel."
},
{
"chunk": 326,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone is starving inside a marriage that everyone around them can see."
},
{
"chunk": 327,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone gives money to a person they know will be robbed of it."
},
{
"chunk": 328,
"story": 36,
"summary": "A person everyone despised is found dead, and nobody can find a good word."
},
{
"chunk": 329,
"story": 36,
"summary": "Someone finds proof of who killed a hated man and quietly destroys it."
},
{
"chunk": 330,
"story": 37,
"summary": "Someone high above others finds it easy to think them insignificant."
},
{
"chunk": 331,
"story": 37,
"summary": "Someone with nothing is courted by another with almost as little."
},
{
"chunk": 332,
"story": 37,
"summary": "Someone mocks another's smallness while living no larger themselves."
},
{
"chunk": 333,
"story": 37,
"summary": "Someone courts another by displaying knowledge instead of affection."
},
{
"chunk": 334,
"story": 37,
"summary": "Someone is shown their rival in front of them, and makes a joke of it."
},
{
"chunk": 335,
"story": 37,
"summary": "Someone is shown a grand view and finds the people in it more real than the view."
},
{
"chunk": 336,
"story": 37,
"summary": "Someone tries to impress another by making everything they care about seem small."
},
{
"chunk": 337,
"story": 37,
"summary": "Someone's display of grandeur frightens off the person it was meant to win."
},
{
"chunk": 338,
"story": 38,
"summary": "A place holds the leavings of grander lives and is passed through by everyone."
},
{
"chunk": 339,
"story": 38,
"summary": "Someone of small means gives themselves the role of a great benefactor."
},
{
"chunk": 340,
"story": 38,
"summary": "Someone whose only wealth is what they can give away goes looking for someone to help."
},
{
"chunk": 341,
"story": 38,
"summary": "Someone sees another destroying what they have and stops them to ask why."
},
{
"chunk": 342,
"story": 38,
"summary": "Someone offers help in grand terms to a stranger who has not asked for it."
},
{
"chunk": 343,
"story": 38,
"summary": "Someone's chance at marriage is made to depend on a foolish test set by another."
},
{
"chunk": 344,
"story": 38,
"summary": "Someone's whole future turns on a trivial question they cannot answer."
},
{
"chunk": 345,
"story": 38,
"summary": "Someone who promised to help anyone finds they cannot, and gives what they have."
},
{
"chunk": 346,
"story": 38,
"summary": "Someone's answer comes by accident from the help that seemed to be worthless."
},
{
"chunk": 347,
"story": 39,
"summary": "Someone grieves for a worthless thing that all their family's money cannot replace."
},
{
"chunk": 348,
"story": 39,
"summary": "Someone's money buys every substitute and none of them is the thing wanted."
},
{
"chunk": 349,
"story": 39,
"summary": "The thing everyone is hunting lies in plain reach of a passing stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 350,
"story": 39,
"summary": "Someone with nothing finds a prop that earns them attention and drink."
},
{
"chunk": 351,
"story": 39,
"summary": "Someone holding something valuable is offered a pittance by people who know its worth."
},
{
"chunk": 352,
"story": 39,
"summary": "Someone refuses a good price because what they hold has given them something better."
},
{
"chunk": 353,
"story": 39,
"summary": "Someone is helped toward a prize by people who mean to take it from them."
},
{
"chunk": 354,
"story": 39,
"summary": "Someone's one good act is received with disgust by the person it was for."
},
{
"chunk": 355,
"story": 39,
"summary": "Someone receives what they came for and is walked toward the people waiting to take it."
},
{
"chunk": 356,
"story": 39,
"summary": "Someone far fallen is reminded of the manners of the life they came from."
},
{
"chunk": 357,
"story": 39,
"summary": "Someone tries to perform a courtesy from a past they can no longer fully recall."
},
{
"chunk": 358,
"story": 39,
"summary": "Someone is saved from waiting danger by a kindness that was never meant as rescue."
},
{
"chunk": 359,
"story": 40,
"summary": "People with more than they need hunt for someone to receive their generosity."
},
{
"chunk": 360,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone rich decides one specific old debt is what stands between them and peace."
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"chunk": 361,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone with more money than they can use starts worrying about how they got it."
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{
"chunk": 362,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone's large gifts go astray and bring them no credit at all."
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{
"chunk": 363,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone giving generously overhears what the receivers really think of them."
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{
"chunk": 364,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone offering charity is told the people they meant to help are already spoken for."
},
{
"chunk": 365,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone tries every way of giving money away and none of it eases them."
},
{
"chunk": 366,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone with every advantage falls for a person who has not noticed them."
},
{
"chunk": 367,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone plans an approach to a person they have only watched from a window."
},
{
"chunk": 368,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone conceals their wealth to be liked for something other than money."
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{
"chunk": 369,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Two people plan a life on wages one of them could cover in an afternoon."
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{
"chunk": 370,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Two people persuade themselves that a small wage is enough to marry on."
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{
"chunk": 371,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone's fortune began with a bargain that ruined the person who sold it."
},
{
"chunk": 372,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone makes restitution while hiding that they were the one who took it."
},
{
"chunk": 373,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone refuses an opening into a higher life because they are already promised."
},
{
"chunk": 374,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone confesses the fortune they hid, and proposes to act before it can matter."
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{
"chunk": 375,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone who gave money away freely stops the moment they have an heir."
},
{
"chunk": 376,
"story": 40,
"summary": "Someone's new devotion to one person makes them harder on everyone else."
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{
"chunk": 377,
"story": 41,
"summary": "Someone works where everyone must pass them and pay."
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{
"chunk": 378,
"story": 41,
"summary": "Someone's position makes them the object of everyone's flattery all day long."
},
{
"chunk": 379,
"story": 41,
"summary": "Someone receives offers so constantly that none of them can be taken seriously."
},
{
"chunk": 380,
"story": 41,
"summary": "Someone handles money and flattery in the same breath, all day, by pure habit."
},
{
"chunk": 381,
"story": 41,
"summary": "Someone's kindness in an emergency wins them the notice of people far above them."
},
{
"chunk": 382,
"story": 41,
"summary": "Someone leaves the only work they know for a life that must be taught to them."
},
{
"chunk": 383,
"story": 41,
"summary": "Someone's old habit answers for them at the moment their new life is decided."
},
{
"chunk": 384,
"story": 42,
"summary": "Someone comfortable and well pleased with themselves takes a walk."
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{
"chunk": 385,
"story": 42,
"summary": "Someone at their most satisfied is stopped in the street by a friend who has failed."
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{
"chunk": 386,
"story": 42,
"summary": "Someone poor keeps submitting work to a prosperous friend who keeps refusing it."
},
{
"chunk": 387,
"story": 42,
"summary": "Someone with nothing left insists that the people rejecting them are wrong."
},
{
"chunk": 388,
"story": 42,
"summary": "Someone is told the exact thing they believe in is what ruins their work."
},
{
"chunk": 389,
"story": 42,
"summary": "Two people argue about how a person really behaves at the worst moment of their life."
},
{
"chunk": 390,
"story": 42,
"summary": "Someone defends a theory about others' feelings that neither of them has tested."
},
{
"chunk": 391,
"story": 42,
"summary": "Someone asks whether proof would change the mind that has judged them."
},
{
"chunk": 392,
"story": 42,
"summary": "Someone desperate offers to test a theory on the person closest to them."
},
{
"chunk": 393,
"story": 42,
"summary": "Someone proposes to wound another to win an argument, and calls it harmless."
},
{
"chunk": 394,
"story": 42,
"summary": "Someone setting a trap finds the real thing has already been sprung on them."
},
{
"chunk": 395,
"story": 42,
"summary": "Two people are struck by the same blow and each answers it in the other's manner."
},
{
"chunk": 396,
"story": 43,
"summary": "People bound by a feud share a room and keep their manners until they cannot."
},
{
"chunk": 397,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Someone injured refuses to name their attacker, meaning to settle it themselves."
},
{
"chunk": 398,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Someone must stay out of sight until the one person who can protect them returns."
},
{
"chunk": 399,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Someone in hiding risks one night out where they hope not to be recognised."
},
{
"chunk": 400,
"story": 43,
"summary": "A place draws people by permitting what everywhere else forbids."
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{
"chunk": 401,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Two strangers decide about each other in the space of a single look."
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{
"chunk": 402,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Two people who have just met begin immediately to improve their own histories."
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{
"chunk": 403,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Someone explains their presence somewhere improper as innocently as they can."
},
{
"chunk": 404,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Someone invents a grand family to make themselves acceptable to a person they like."
},
{
"chunk": 405,
"story": 43,
"summary": "People value an ordinary pleasure more once it is forbidden."
},
{
"chunk": 406,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Someone asks the person they want for a plain account of who they are."
},
{
"chunk": 407,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Two people making plans are interrupted by the thing one of them was hiding from."
},
{
"chunk": 408,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Someone loses their chance to escape by stopping to ask for reassurance."
},
{
"chunk": 409,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Someone in hiding is recognised by an officer who means to take them in."
},
{
"chunk": 410,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Someone saves another by revealing exactly what they are and what the officer is."
},
{
"chunk": 411,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Someone gives up the person they wanted rather than be taken for what they are."
},
{
"chunk": 412,
"story": 43,
"summary": "Someone answers another's confession by marrying them on the spot."
},
{
"chunk": 413,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone travelling toward a goal cares more for what lies beside the road."
},
{
"chunk": 414,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone knows the end of every road available to them and wants one they do not."
},
{
"chunk": 415,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone deliberately chooses discomfort in the hope of being surprised."
},
{
"chunk": 416,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone with money in the bank and none in their pocket meets another in the same case."
},
{
"chunk": 417,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Two strangers agree to run a risk together for the sake of the outcome."
},
{
"chunk": 418,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone wants to act without being able to guess what will follow."
},
{
"chunk": 419,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone complains that every risk available to them has a predictable end."
},
{
"chunk": 420,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone's most mysterious opening turned out to have an ordinary explanation."
},
{
"chunk": 421,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone has tried every risk they can think of and found each one predictable."
},
{
"chunk": 422,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone loses a wager and arranges for the winner to escape the consequence."
},
{
"chunk": 423,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Two people risking everything discover neither was risking anything at all."
},
{
"chunk": 424,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone loves a person and fears the life with them for being entirely foreseeable."
},
{
"chunk": 425,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone returns after years to a person and a house that have not changed at all."
},
{
"chunk": 426,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone is told by another that the thing they wanted was always available."
},
{
"chunk": 427,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone left a person for being predictable and finds they are about to be lost."
},
{
"chunk": 428,
"story": 44,
"summary": "Someone finds the greatest uncertainty in the very commitment another is fleeing."
},
{
"chunk": 429,
"story": 45,
"summary": "Everyone who arrives in a new place must contend with it from the first day."
},
{
"chunk": 430,
"story": 45,
"summary": "Two friends arrive somewhere new, each meaning not to be changed by it."
},
{
"chunk": 431,
"story": 45,
"summary": "Someone tells an old friend that the place has remade them into everyone else."
},
{
"chunk": 432,
"story": 45,
"summary": "Someone accused of being changed answers that the change has paid them well."
},
{
"chunk": 433,
"story": 45,
"summary": "Someone measures their life by what it buys and cannot see what is meant."
},
{
"chunk": 434,
"story": 45,
"summary": "Someone declares they will never be changed by what has already changed their friend."
},
{
"chunk": 435,
"story": 45,
"summary": "Someone who swore they were unconquered refuses the chance to leave."
},
{
"chunk": 436,
"story": 46,
"summary": "Someone who can buy anything wants something they cannot pay for."
},
{
"chunk": 437,
"story": 46,
"summary": "Someone sets out to do good to a stranger they have not yet chosen."
},
{
"chunk": 438,
"story": 46,
"summary": "Someone works long hours in pain for wages that only just keep them."
},
{
"chunk": 439,
"story": 46,
"summary": "Someone has found exactly the small comfort that makes their day bearable."
},
{
"chunk": 440,
"story": 46,
"summary": "Someone is offered everything they never asked for by a stranger in the street."
},
{
"chunk": 441,
"story": 46,
"summary": "Someone offered an impossible gift assumes a trick and refuses it rudely."
},
{
"chunk": 442,
"story": 46,
"summary": "Someone locked up finds by accident the exact comfort they most wanted."
},
{
"chunk": 443,
"story": 47,
"summary": "Someone whose promised person has vanished looks for an answer anywhere."
},
{
"chunk": 444,
"story": 47,
"summary": "Someone in trouble is given a list of signs to watch for and believes it."
},
{
"chunk": 445,
"story": 47,
"summary": "Someone's run of small disasters begins as soon as they are warned of it."
},
{
"chunk": 446,
"story": 47,
"summary": "Someone fits every ordinary misfortune to the prediction they were given."
},
{
"chunk": 447,
"story": 47,
"summary": "Someone stops a stranger in the street because they match a promised description."
},
{
"chunk": 448,
"story": 47,
"summary": "Someone tries to escape two strangers who believe they owe them a fortune."
},
{
"chunk": 449,
"story": 47,
"summary": "Someone attaches themselves to a stranger they have decided their fortune rests on."
},
{
"chunk": 450,
"story": 47,
"summary": "Someone stays loyal to a friend whose belief they think is nonsense."
},
{
"chunk": 451,
"story": 47,
"summary": "Someone who collects other people's strangeness is delighted to be taken for a sign."
},
{
"chunk": 452,
"story": 47,
"summary": "Someone's promised good fortune produces only conversation, and they resent it."
},
{
"chunk": 453,
"story": 47,
"summary": "Someone hears, in passing, the name of the person they had given up for lost."
},
{
"chunk": 454,
"story": 48,
"summary": "Someone has saved for months and still cannot afford the gift they intend."
},
{
"chunk": 455,
"story": 48,
"summary": "Someone out of money considers the one thing of value they still own."
},
{
"chunk": 456,
"story": 48,
"summary": "Someone sells the one thing they were proud of to buy another a gift."
},
{
"chunk": 457,
"story": 48,
"summary": "Someone spends everything on a gift and then fears how they will be seen."
},
{
"chunk": 458,
"story": 48,
"summary": "Someone confesses a sacrifice and cannot read the face of the person it was for."
},
{
"chunk": 459,
"story": 48,
"summary": "Someone reassures another and then hands over the gift that will explain everything."
},
{
"chunk": 460,
"story": 48,
"summary": "Two people each sold their treasure to buy the other what now cannot be used."
},
{
"chunk": 461,
"story": 48,
"summary": "Two people give away what they cannot spare and are counted wise for it."
},
{
"chunk": 462,
"story": 49,
"summary": "Someone hoping to find a rare kind of person sits waiting to be joined."
},
{
"chunk": 463,
"story": 49,
"summary": "Someone claims every place as home and none as theirs in particular."
},
{
"chunk": 464,
"story": 49,
"summary": "Someone appears to have escaped the loyalty that everyone else is bound by."
},
{
"chunk": 465,
"story": 49,
"summary": "Someone tests a theory by asking a stranger where they come from."
},
{
"chunk": 466,
"story": 49,
"summary": "Someone insists it should not matter where anybody comes from."
},
{
"chunk": 467,
"story": 49,
"summary": "Someone argues that attachment to a birthplace is a weakness to be outgrown."
},
{
"chunk": 468,
"story": 49,
"summary": "Someone denies having any attachment at all, and takes their leave."
},
{
"chunk": 469,
"story": 49,
"summary": "Someone who denied caring where they came from fights the first person to insult it."
},
{
"chunk": 470,
"story": 50,
"summary": "Someone waiting at home resents the courtesy another spends on everyone else."
},
{
"chunk": 471,
"story": 50,
"summary": "Two people settle a grievance by throwing what they have at each other."
},
{
"chunk": 472,
"story": 50,
"summary": "Two people's regular quarrel is left alone by everyone who hears it."
},
{
"chunk": 473,
"story": 50,
"summary": "A child's disappearance gives everyone around a reason to act on their own account."
},
{
"chunk": 474,
"story": 50,
"summary": "Someone raises an alarm without being able to say when the trouble began."
},
{
"chunk": 475,
"story": 50,
"summary": "Two people at war soften when another's loss makes them imagine their own."
},
{
"chunk": 476,
"story": 50,
"summary": "Two people are brought together by an emergency that turns out to be nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 477,
"story": 50,
"summary": "Two people's peace lasts only until one of them makes a joke of it."
},
{
"chunk": 478,
"story": 51,
"summary": "Someone looking for lodging is judged by how little they can pay."
},
{
"chunk": 479,
"story": 51,
"summary": "Someone can afford only a space barely big enough to lie down in."
},
{
"chunk": 480,
"story": 51,
"summary": "Someone living in the poorest room keeps everyone around them cheerful."
},
{
"chunk": 481,
"story": 51,
"summary": "Someone popular with everyone is resented by those who are not."
},
{
"chunk": 482,
"story": 51,
"summary": "Someone shut in a dark place gives a private name to the one thing they can see."
},
{
"chunk": 483,
"story": 51,
"summary": "Someone out of work refuses the offer that would feed them and climbs the stairs alone."
},
{
"chunk": 484,
"story": 51,
"summary": "Someone at the end of their strength says farewell to the only thing that kept them company."
},
{
"chunk": 485,
"story": 51,
"summary": "Someone is carried out by a stranger who bears the name they invented in the dark."
},
{
"chunk": 486,
"story": 52,
"summary": "Two people with talent and little money marry and live on their studies."
},
{
"chunk": 487,
"story": 52,
"summary": "Two people spend what they have on training toward futures they cannot yet reach."
},
{
"chunk": 488,
"story": 52,
"summary": "Someone announces they have found work so that the other need not stop studying."
},
{
"chunk": 489,
"story": 52,
"summary": "Someone lets another carry the household so that their own work can continue."
},
{
"chunk": 490,
"story": 52,
"summary": "Two people each produce money and an account of where it came from."
},
{
"chunk": 491,
"story": 52,
"summary": "Someone hides an injury behind a story and is asked one question too many."
},
{
"chunk": 492,
"story": 52,
"summary": "Two people each hid the same humble work from the other to protect them."
},
{
"chunk": 493,
"story": 53,
"summary": "Someone without a partner attends only on the charity of a friend."
},
{
"chunk": 494,
"story": 53,
"summary": "Someone who has always been pitied announces they no longer need the favour."
},
{
"chunk": 495,
"story": 53,
"summary": "Someone arrives with a companion who plainly outshines everyone in the room."
},
{
"chunk": 496,
"story": 53,
"summary": "Someone's guest wins the room and then offends the one person who matters."
},
{
"chunk": 497,
"story": 53,
"summary": "Someone in charge questions a stranger nobody can vouch for."
},
{
"chunk": 498,
"story": 53,
"summary": "Two people who cannot share a room force the question of who belongs."
},
{
"chunk": 499,
"story": 53,
"summary": "Someone's companion is quietly taken away to be dealt with by the others."
},
{
"chunk": 500,
"story": 53,
"summary": "Someone stops the person they brought from doing what cannot be forgiven."
},
{
"chunk": 501,
"story": 53,
"summary": "Someone confesses the pretence that got them noticed, and is taken seriously at last."
},
{
"chunk": 502,
"story": 54,
"summary": "Someone will not let a vague description rest until they can picture it."
},
{
"chunk": 503,
"story": 54,
"summary": "Someone looking for one particular kind of person passes all the others by."
},
{
"chunk": 504,
"story": 54,
"summary": "Someone asks everyone they meet the same question and gets a different answer."
},
{
"chunk": 505,
"story": 54,
"summary": "Someone hears their quarry described as pure curiosity and impudence."
},
{
"chunk": 506,
"story": 54,
"summary": "Someone given a perfect description insists on meeting the thing itself."
},
{
"chunk": 507,
"story": 54,
"summary": "Someone searching everywhere for a type is finally identified as one themselves."
},
{
"chunk": 508,
"story": 55,
"summary": "Someone with nowhere to go for the winter decides prison is the best available."
},
{
"chunk": 509,
"story": 55,
"summary": "Someone refuses charity because of what it costs them, and plans a crime instead."
},
{
"chunk": 510,
"story": 55,
"summary": "Someone is refused entry before they can commit the offence they came to commit."
},
{
"chunk": 511,
"story": 55,
"summary": "Someone confesses to an act and is not believed because nobody behaves that way."
},
{
"chunk": 512,
"story": 55,
"summary": "Someone tries a worse offence after the first attempt fails to get attention."
},
{
"chunk": 513,
"story": 55,
"summary": "Someone behaves as badly as they can and every attempt is taken kindly."
},
{
"chunk": 514,
"story": 55,
"summary": "Someone steals in plain sight and the person robbed gives way to them."
},
{
"chunk": 515,
"story": 55,
"summary": "Someone hears music from an earlier life and sees clearly what they have become."
},
{
"chunk": 516,
"story": 55,
"summary": "Someone decides to change their life and is punished the instant they do."
},
{
"chunk": 517,
"story": 56,
"summary": "People with no money eat where the owner tolerates their unpaid scores."
},
{
"chunk": 518,
"story": 56,
"summary": "Someone fits their place so perfectly that others cannot imagine them elsewhere."
},
{
"chunk": 519,
"story": 56,
"summary": "People fear that the person who feeds them will be taken away by better fortune."
},
{
"chunk": 520,
"story": 56,
"summary": "People dread the good fortune that would take a friend out of their reach."
},
{
"chunk": 521,
"story": 56,
"summary": "A newly rich stranger is instantly taken with the person others depend on."
},
{
"chunk": 522,
"story": 56,
"summary": "People remove a rival by spending his own money until he is helpless."
},
{
"chunk": 523,
"story": 56,
"summary": "Someone's high-minded reason for driving off a rival turns out to be self-interest."
},
{
"chunk": 524,
"story": 57,
"summary": "Someone is bought under a false description and doted on by the buyer."
},
{
"chunk": 525,
"story": 57,
"summary": "Someone in a household does every chore and is respected by nobody in it."
},
{
"chunk": 526,
"story": 57,
"summary": "Two members of a household share the same daily humiliation without speaking of it."
},
{
"chunk": 527,
"story": 57,
"summary": "Someone wonders how a neighbour endures the same life so cheerfully."
},
{
"chunk": 528,
"story": 57,
"summary": "Someone quietly steers another toward the escape that will free them both."
},
{
"chunk": 529,
"story": 57,
"summary": "Someone sets another free and finds they will not go without them."
},
{
"chunk": 530,
"story": 57,
"summary": "Two who were owned by the same household leave it together and start again."
},
{
"chunk": 531,
"story": 58,
"summary": "Someone's counter makes them the confidant of everyone around them."
},
{
"chunk": 532,
"story": 58,
"summary": "Someone too timid to speak watches a bolder rival court the same person."
},
{
"chunk": 533,
"story": 58,
"summary": "Someone hears from a rival the plan that will settle the matter tonight."
},
{
"chunk": 534,
"story": 58,
"summary": "Someone asks another for a means of making a person want them."
},
{
"chunk": 535,
"story": 58,
"summary": "Someone hands a rival a trap and then warns the one person who can stop them."
},
{
"chunk": 536,
"story": 58,
"summary": "Someone's double trap fails because the rival refused to use it as intended."
},
{
"chunk": 537,
"story": 59,
"summary": "Someone who made their money in trade is looked down on by their neighbours."
},
{
"chunk": 538,
"story": 59,
"summary": "Two people disagree about whether money can obtain what one of them wants."
},
{
"chunk": 539,
"story": 59,
"summary": "Someone in love is told to act by a person who cannot see the obstacle."
},
{
"chunk": 540,
"story": 59,
"summary": "Someone has one small window of time in which to say the thing that matters."
},
{
"chunk": 541,
"story": 59,
"summary": "Someone sets out for their one chance carrying a keepsake meant to bring luck."
},
{
"chunk": 542,
"story": 59,
"summary": "Someone's brief delay traps them for hours exactly where they wanted to be."
},
{
"chunk": 543,
"story": 59,
"summary": "Someone credits the outcome to sentiment rather than to anything that was arranged."
},
{
"chunk": 544,
"story": 59,
"summary": "Someone's miracle was bought and paid for by a person who denies nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 545,
"story": 60,
"summary": "Someone scraping a living by odd work is reduced to tears by something small."
},
{
"chunk": 546,
"story": 60,
"summary": "Someone trades the one skill they have for food through a cold winter."
},
{
"chunk": 547,
"story": 60,
"summary": "Someone shut in a cold room sees only the place where they were happy."
},
{
"chunk": 548,
"story": 60,
"summary": "Someone returns to work with a promise of marriage to be kept when the season turns."
},
{
"chunk": 549,
"story": 60,
"summary": "Someone at ordinary work meets the one word that undoes them."
},
{
"chunk": 550,
"story": 60,
"summary": "Someone finishes their work and cannot bring themselves to eat what it named."
},
{
"chunk": 551,
"story": 60,
"summary": "Someone given up for lost arrives without warning at the door."
},
{
"chunk": 552,
"story": 60,
"summary": "Someone is found through a mistake their grief made in their ordinary work."
},
{
"chunk": 553,
"story": 61,
"summary": "Someone follows chance for its own sake rather than toward any goal."
},
{
"chunk": 554,
"story": 61,
"summary": "People are handed chances daily and let each one go by."
},
{
"chunk": 555,
"story": 61,
"summary": "Someone who accepts every invitation from chance is handed another."
},
{
"chunk": 556,
"story": 61,
"summary": "Someone receives a message that nobody else appears to be given."
},
{
"chunk": 557,
"story": 61,
"summary": "Someone hesitating over a summons is made to feel they have been found wanting."
},
{
"chunk": 558,
"story": 61,
"summary": "Someone answering a mysterious summons finds a person at the end of their strength."
},
{
"chunk": 559,
"story": 61,
"summary": "Someone finds a stranger starving and goes at once for food."
},
{
"chunk": 560,
"story": 61,
"summary": "Someone tells a stranger the ordinary story of how they came to be starving."
},
{
"chunk": 561,
"story": 61,
"summary": "Someone hides what they know so the other need never feel exposed."
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{
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"story": 61,
"summary": "Someone learns their sign meant nothing and keeps believing it was meant for them."
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"story": 62,
"summary": "Someone who carries others for pay sees them only as fares."
},
{
"chunk": 564,
"story": 62,
"summary": "Someone at a celebration has drunk too much to know what they are doing."
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{
"chunk": 565,
"story": 62,
"summary": "Someone accepts a passenger without noticing who they are."
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{
"chunk": 566,
"story": 62,
"summary": "Someone with a few coins is set down among luxury and simply enjoys it."
},
{
"chunk": 567,
"story": 62,
"summary": "Someone demands payment from a passenger who never had the money."
},
{
"chunk": 568,
"story": 62,
"summary": "Someone about to accuse a stranger recognises the person they married that evening."
},
{
"chunk": 569,
"story": 63,
"summary": "Someone at a final reckoning is asked which group of the accused they belong to."
},
{
"chunk": 570,
"story": 63,
"summary": "Someone living on almost nothing accepts an invitation that may cost them more than money."
},
{
"chunk": 571,
"story": 63,
"summary": "Someone spends their food money on looking fit for an occasion."
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{
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"story": 63,
"summary": "Someone's wage exactly covers survival and nothing else."
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{
"chunk": 573,
"story": 63,
"summary": "Someone starved of pleasure is about to be preyed on by a person who knows it."
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{
"chunk": 574,
"story": 63,
"summary": "Someone about to accept a dangerous invitation turns it down at the last moment."
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{
"chunk": 575,
"story": 63,
"summary": "Someone who refused a temptation consoles themselves alone with what little they have."
},
{
"chunk": 576,
"story": 63,
"summary": "Someone holds out tonight, knowing they may not the next time loneliness wins."
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{
"chunk": 577,
"story": 64,
"summary": "Someone with nothing imagines that they have chosen to have nothing."
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{
"chunk": 578,
"story": 64,
"summary": "Someone powerless sustains themselves with the belief that they help others."
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{
"chunk": 579,
"story": 64,
"summary": "Someone anxiously waiting is offered help by a stranger who plainly has none to give."
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{
"chunk": 580,
"story": 64,
"summary": "Someone counting down to a verdict is lectured by a stranger about time."
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{
"chunk": 581,
"story": 64,
"summary": "Someone who wronged the person they love waits for a sign of forgiveness."
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{
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"story": 64,
"summary": "Someone believes the deadline for forgiveness has passed without a sign."
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{
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"story": 64,
"summary": "Someone despairing is kind to a poorer stranger just before their luck turns."
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{
"chunk": 584,
"story": 64,
"summary": "Someone despairs over a deadline that was never real, and a kindness is quietly repaid."
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{
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"story": 65,
"summary": "Two people newly married see the great city together for the first time."
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{
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"story": 65,
"summary": "People new to a place believe whatever the guide tells them."
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{
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"story": 65,
"summary": "Two people newly married are completely content with each other and the world."
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{
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"story": 65,
"summary": "Two couples share a seat; one of them has something to hide."
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{
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"story": 65,
"summary": "Two strangers understand each other at a glance, and one acts to help the other."
},
{
"chunk": 590,
"story": 65,
"summary": "Someone is mistaken for a wanted person and expects the mistake to clear itself."
},
{
"chunk": 591,
"story": 65,
"summary": "Someone is betrayed in front of the police by the person they trust most."
},
{
"chunk": 592,
"story": 65,
"summary": "Someone sacrifices their partner's peace to protect a stranger in the same happy state."
},
{
"chunk": 593,
"story": 66,
"summary": "Someone expected to be noticed today is treated as part of the furniture."
},
{
"chunk": 594,
"story": 66,
"summary": "Someone learns they are being replaced and quietly carries on working."
},
{
"chunk": 595,
"story": 66,
"summary": "Someone's employer forgets a decision made the day before."
},
{
"chunk": 596,
"story": 66,
"summary": "Someone overwhelmed by work suddenly remembers the one thing that matters to them."
},
{
"chunk": 597,
"story": 66,
"summary": "Someone is so consumed by work they forget the most important thing already happened."
},
{
"chunk": 598,
"story": 67,
"summary": "Someone keeps a promise to meet an old friend after twenty years apart."
},
{
"chunk": 599,
"story": 67,
"summary": "Someone who prospered far away returns trusting a friend to keep their old word."
},
{
"chunk": 600,
"story": 67,
"summary": "Someone waiting in the rain is greeted by the person they have waited for."
},
{
"chunk": 601,
"story": 67,
"summary": "Someone realises the person they trusted on sight is not who they claimed."
},
{
"chunk": 602,
"story": 67,
"summary": "Someone must choose between their friend and their duty, and sends another to act."
},
{
"chunk": 603,
"story": 68,
"summary": "Someone of modest means saves for months to pass one evening as rich."
},
{
"chunk": 604,
"story": 68,
"summary": "Someone enjoying their rare evening of show stops to help a stranger who falls."
},
{
"chunk": 605,
"story": 68,
"summary": "Someone playing a part decides to share their one evening with a stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 606,
"story": 68,
"summary": "Someone extends an invitation across what they believe is a gap in station."
},
{
"chunk": 607,
"story": 68,
"summary": "Two strangers enjoy each other's company without knowing the truth about either."
},
{
"chunk": 608,
"story": 68,
"summary": "Someone lies about their standing to impress a person who would have preferred the truth."
},
{
"chunk": 609,
"story": 68,
"summary": "Someone regrets the lie they told, while the other returns to a life they also hid."
},
{
"chunk": 610,
"story": 68,
"summary": "Someone describes exactly the person they would love, and it is who the liar really was."
},
{
"chunk": 611,
"story": 69,
"summary": "Someone forbidden to speak to a person they love sends word through a stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 612,
"story": 69,
"summary": "Someone dismissed without explanation makes one last appeal for a reason."
},
{
"chunk": 613,
"story": 69,
"summary": "Someone receives an appeal from a person they have cut off, and listens coldly."
},
{
"chunk": 614,
"story": 69,
"summary": "Someone judged by what they appeared to be doing was never asked to explain it."
},
{
"chunk": 615,
"story": 69,
"summary": "Someone wrongly condemned produces the proof they were never given a chance to show."
},
{
"chunk": 616,
"story": 69,
"summary": "Someone learns that what they condemned was a kindness, and takes the person back."
},
{
"chunk": 617,
"story": 70,
"summary": "Someone searching for a place to stay tries door after door in a shifting neighbourhood."
},
{
"chunk": 618,
"story": 70,
"summary": "Someone is shown a room by a landlady eager to describe everyone but the truth."
},
{
"chunk": 619,
"story": 70,
"summary": "Someone has searched for months for a lost person and hears the same answer again."
},
{
"chunk": 620,
"story": 70,
"summary": "Someone alone in a strange room reads the traces of everyone who stayed there before."
},
{
"chunk": 621,
"story": 70,
"summary": "Someone sees in a room's scars how others resented a home that was never theirs."
},
{
"chunk": 622,
"story": 70,
"summary": "Someone senses the presence of the person they seek, but cannot find any proof."
},
{
"chunk": 623,
"story": 70,
"summary": "Someone searches everywhere for one sign they are right, and finds nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 624,
"story": 70,
"summary": "Someone asks directly and is told a lie that ends their last hope."
},
{
"chunk": 625,
"story": 70,
"summary": "Someone gives up just as the truth is being concealed a floor below them."
},
{
"chunk": 626,
"story": 71,
"summary": "Two people do the same work where only one of them is noticed."
},
{
"chunk": 627,
"story": 71,
"summary": "Someone plain works beside someone admired and receives none of the attention."
},
{
"chunk": 628,
"story": 71,
"summary": "Someone who has never been wanted watches another be wanted daily."
},
{
"chunk": 629,
"story": 71,
"summary": "Someone envies even the troubles that come to people others find desirable."
},
{
"chunk": 630,
"story": 71,
"summary": "Someone overlooked all their life is suddenly singled out, and becomes someone new."
},
{
"chunk": 631,
"story": 71,
"summary": "Someone makes the most of the single sign that they were desired."
},
{
"chunk": 632,
"story": 71,
"summary": "Someone learns the one sign of being wanted was an accident the other regrets."
},
{
"chunk": 633,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Someone takes the best-paying work available and spends it on show."
},
{
"chunk": 634,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Someone chooses lower pay to stay close to the people they hope to join."
},
{
"chunk": 635,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Two friends argue whether to aim high and hungry or stay content with what comes."
},
{
"chunk": 636,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Someone steady and plain is overlooked by the people he takes out."
},
{
"chunk": 637,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Someone learns the manners of a class above them by watching it closely."
},
{
"chunk": 638,
"story": 72,
"summary": "People in the same position share their methods for dealing with those who pursue them."
},
{
"chunk": 639,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Someone hunting a prize learns to tell the genuine article from the imitation."
},
{
"chunk": 640,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Someone turns down the prize they were seeking because of what they saw in the person."
},
{
"chunk": 641,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Someone holds out for character in a partner even at the price of a fortune."
},
{
"chunk": 642,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Two friends pursue their different ideas of success and slowly drift from the same person."
},
{
"chunk": 643,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Someone keeps a faithful suitor waiting because their independence pleases them more."
},
{
"chunk": 644,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Two friends compete over who will marry better, each sure of her own method."
},
{
"chunk": 645,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Someone pursuing wealth finds they have begun to value something else."
},
{
"chunk": 646,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Someone abandoned by the person they waited for is comforted by the friend left behind."
},
{
"chunk": 647,
"story": 72,
"summary": "Someone who took the glittering offer sees the one they rejected make another happy."
},
{
"chunk": 648,
"story": 73,
"summary": "Someone far from their partner is sent poison about them and cannot check it."
},
{
"chunk": 649,
"story": 73,
"summary": "Someone troubled seeks distraction by inviting a stranger from the street."
},
{
"chunk": 650,
"story": 73,
"summary": "Someone brought in from the street keeps their pride at a rich person's table."
},
{
"chunk": 651,
"story": 73,
"summary": "Someone who lives on charity knows the price is always their story."
},
{
"chunk": 652,
"story": 73,
"summary": "Someone offered kindness without conditions responds by telling the truth."
},
{
"chunk": 653,
"story": 73,
"summary": "Someone's gift for showing the truth about people costs them every client."
},
{
"chunk": 654,
"story": 73,
"summary": "Someone tormented by doubt asks for a test that could confirm their worst fear."
},
{
"chunk": 655,
"story": 73,
"summary": "Someone holds the answer to their doubt and is afraid to look at it."
},
{
"chunk": 656,
"story": 73,
"summary": "Someone's fear about the person they love is answered in that person's favour."
},
{
"chunk": 657,
"story": 74,
"summary": "Someone overhears how others really see a habit they thought harmless."
},
{
"chunk": 658,
"story": 74,
"summary": "Someone confronted with the truth about themselves resolves to change at once."
},
{
"chunk": 659,
"story": 74,
"summary": "Two people drift gradually into habits neither of them chose deliberately."
},
{
"chunk": 660,
"story": 74,
"summary": "Two people mistake shared excess for shared happiness."
},
{
"chunk": 661,
"story": 74,
"summary": "Someone changes suddenly and will not explain why to the person who notices."
},
{
"chunk": 662,
"story": 74,
"summary": "Someone's reform is felt by their partner as a rebuke they were not consulted about."
},
{
"chunk": 663,
"story": 74,
"summary": "Someone about to relapse reminds the other, unintentionally, of who they both used to be."
},
{
"chunk": 664,
"story": 74,
"summary": "Two people see what their life has become and choose together to break it."
},
{
"chunk": 665,
"story": 75,
"summary": "Someone's home life has become so routine that nothing in it can surprise them."
},
{
"chunk": 666,
"story": 75,
"summary": "Someone escapes a dull household every evening and has stopped noticing it."
},
{
"chunk": 667,
"story": 75,
"summary": "Someone comes home to find the person they took for granted suddenly absent."
},
{
"chunk": 668,
"story": 75,
"summary": "Someone realises how much they depended on a person only when that person is gone."
},
{
"chunk": 669,
"story": 75,
"summary": "Someone given the freedom they wanted finds it worthless without the person they escaped."
},
{
"chunk": 670,
"story": 75,
"summary": "Someone resolves to change just as the need for change disappears."
},
{
"chunk": 671,
"story": 75,
"summary": "Someone's resolution vanishes the moment the thing they missed is restored."
},
{
"chunk": 672,
"story": 76,
"summary": "Someone keeps an annual appointment that has become an institution."
},
{
"chunk": 673,
"story": 76,
"summary": "Someone arrives for a ritual meal having already eaten beyond their limit."
},
{
"chunk": 674,
"story": 76,
"summary": "Someone sees their benefactor coming and cannot possibly accept what is offered."
},
{
"chunk": 675,
"story": 76,
"summary": "Someone lonely has built their only ritual around a stranger's hunger."
},
{
"chunk": 676,
"story": 76,
"summary": "Someone with no heirs wants a small kindness to outlive them."
},
{
"chunk": 677,
"story": 76,
"summary": "Someone accepts a kindness they cannot use so as not to disappoint the giver."
},
{
"chunk": 678,
"story": 76,
"summary": "Someone suffers greatly to preserve another person's pleasure in giving."
},
{
"chunk": 679,
"story": 76,
"summary": "Someone gives their last to keep a tradition and has kept nothing for themselves."
},
{
"chunk": 680,
"story": 77,
"summary": "Someone penniless looks down on others, confident their wits will provide."
},
{
"chunk": 681,
"story": 77,
"summary": "Someone lives by lies and turns every creditor into a friend for the evening."
},
{
"chunk": 682,
"story": 77,
"summary": "Someone with nothing left preys even on a child running an errand."
},
{
"chunk": 683,
"story": 77,
"summary": "Someone who cheats everyone also acts on reflex to save a life."
},
{
"chunk": 684,
"story": 77,
"summary": "Someone lies even when the truth would serve, for the pleasure of being believed."
},
{
"chunk": 685,
"story": 77,
"summary": "Someone lost in a strange city asks help of exactly the wrong person."
},
{
"chunk": 686,
"story": 77,
"summary": "Someone who takes from everyone gives a little and preaches contempt for honest work."
},
{
"chunk": 687,
"story": 77,
"summary": "Someone who despises everyone is undone by the sight of their own innocent past."
},
{
"chunk": 688,
"story": 78,
"summary": "Someone is sent in another's place on an errand far from home."
},
{
"chunk": 689,
"story": 78,
"summary": "Someone new to a place is entertained by people who want their business."
},
{
"chunk": 690,
"story": 78,
"summary": "Someone indifferent to everything around them is stopped dead by one person."
},
{
"chunk": 691,
"story": 78,
"summary": "Someone's employer offers their time to a customer as part of the sale."
},
{
"chunk": 692,
"story": 78,
"summary": "Someone treated as a customer's entertainment meets one who treats them as a person."
},
{
"chunk": 693,
"story": 78,
"summary": "Someone used to buyers' advances cannot tell a sincere proposal from the usual ones."
},
{
"chunk": 694,
"story": 78,
"summary": "Someone's livelihood requires accepting attentions they despise."
},
{
"chunk": 695,
"story": 78,
"summary": "Someone realises the offer they rejected as insult was honest, and accepts it."
},
{
"chunk": 696,
"story": 79,
"summary": "Someone asks a richer friend from shared hardship for a start."
},
{
"chunk": 697,
"story": 79,
"summary": "Someone helps a friend into work and then falls for a stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 698,
"story": 79,
"summary": "Someone's friend is about to lose their post through one night's excess."
},
{
"chunk": 699,
"story": 79,
"summary": "Someone takes a friend's place to protect their job and good name."
},
{
"chunk": 700,
"story": 79,
"summary": "Someone in a borrowed identity performs a rescue for the person they love."
},
{
"chunk": 701,
"story": 79,
"summary": "Someone must forgo the credit they want most to protect a friend's position."
},
{
"chunk": 702,
"story": 79,
"summary": "Someone's sacrifice for a friend is repaid with the very thing they gave up."
},
{
"chunk": 703,
"story": 80,
"summary": "Someone who owns much is bored by the duties that come with it."
},
{
"chunk": 704,
"story": 80,
"summary": "Someone avoids hearing about the consequences of what they own."
},
{
"chunk": 705,
"story": 80,
"summary": "Someone of standing slips among ordinary people and is charmed by one of them."
},
{
"chunk": 706,
"story": 80,
"summary": "Someone poor explains their plain life to a stranger without embarrassment."
},
{
"chunk": 707,
"story": 80,
"summary": "Someone despising other people's pleasures sees them differently through one person's eyes."
},
{
"chunk": 708,
"story": 80,
"summary": "Someone set apart by wealth enjoys themselves plainly for the first time."
},
{
"chunk": 709,
"story": 80,
"summary": "Someone in danger finds the safeguards meant to protect them are fraudulent."
},
{
"chunk": 710,
"story": 80,
"summary": "Someone learns the person they love must meet strangers in public for want of a place."
},
{
"chunk": 711,
"story": 80,
"summary": "Someone's living conditions force them into risks that others judge them for."
},
{
"chunk": 712,
"story": 80,
"summary": "Someone discovers they caused the harm they deplore, too late to undo it."
},
{
"chunk": 713,
"story": 81,
"summary": "Someone moves from place to place, understanding each and belonging to none."
},
{
"chunk": 714,
"story": 81,
"summary": "Someone judges every place by how it treated them as a stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 715,
"story": 81,
"summary": "Someone confident of reading any place meets one that gives them nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 716,
"story": 81,
"summary": "Someone would rather be mistreated than ignored."
},
{
"chunk": 717,
"story": 81,
"summary": "Someone surrounded by strangers finds them all cold and self-absorbed."
},
{
"chunk": 718,
"story": 81,
"summary": "Someone who thought a place heartless is cared for by it at their worst moment."
},
{
"chunk": 719,
"story": 81,
"summary": "Someone who found the heart of a place defends it against the next stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 720,
"story": 82,
"summary": "Someone gives up profitable wrongdoing because the person they love asks."
},
{
"chunk": 721,
"story": 82,
"summary": "Someone commits to an honest life knowing it will cost them their pride."
},
{
"chunk": 722,
"story": 82,
"summary": "Someone going straight grows shabby and wants to show they still have style."
},
{
"chunk": 723,
"story": 82,
"summary": "Someone receives a gift too fine for the giver's wages and wonders where it came from."
},
{
"chunk": 724,
"story": 82,
"summary": "Someone's display of a gift draws the attention of the person investigating a theft."
},
{
"chunk": 725,
"story": 82,
"summary": "Someone who reformed is suspected at once when something goes missing."
},
{
"chunk": 726,
"story": 82,
"summary": "Someone would rather be thought a thief than be seen to have bought cheap."
},
{
"chunk": 727,
"story": 82,
"summary": "Someone's vanity nearly ruins them, and the person they tried to impress forgives it."
},
{
"chunk": 728,
"story": 83,
"summary": "Someone at the bottom worships the powerful person at the top of their small world."
},
{
"chunk": 729,
"story": 83,
"summary": "Someone spends everything they have for a moment's acknowledgement from a superior."
},
{
"chunk": 730,
"story": 83,
"summary": "Someone considers a public humiliation worth it for the honour they gained."
},
{
"chunk": 731,
"story": 83,
"summary": "Someone powerful in their own world is nobody in the world they want to enter."
},
{
"chunk": 732,
"story": 83,
"summary": "Someone gains standing by offering service to the person whose acceptance they crave."
},
{
"chunk": 733,
"story": 83,
"summary": "Someone at the very top seeks meaning by helping those at the very bottom."
},
{
"chunk": 734,
"story": 83,
"summary": "Each person in the chain seeks the approval of the one above and gives it below."
},
{
"chunk": 735,
"story": 84,
"summary": "Two coworkers compete quietly for the notice of the same person."
},
{
"chunk": 736,
"story": 84,
"summary": "Someone has saved for months toward a single occasion and is nearly there."
},
{
"chunk": 737,
"story": 84,
"summary": "Everyone in a workplace hopes to win the same well-placed person."
},
{
"chunk": 738,
"story": 84,
"summary": "Someone gives a rival the money they needed to reach their own goal."
},
{
"chunk": 739,
"story": 84,
"summary": "Someone misses the occasion they saved for, having given their chance away."
},
{
"chunk": 740,
"story": 84,
"summary": "Someone is trusted on credit by a stranger who has quietly observed their character."
},
{
"chunk": 741,
"story": 84,
"summary": "Someone who gave up their chance is noticed anyway, by accident, by the person they hoped for."
},
{
"chunk": 742,
"story": 85,
"summary": "Someone takes fierce sides in a distant quarrel that has nothing to do with them."
},
{
"chunk": 743,
"story": 85,
"summary": "Someone arrives in a strange country with nothing and understands nothing around them."
},
{
"chunk": 744,
"story": 85,
"summary": "Someone's duty to spare a stranger costs them dearly and ruins something they love."
},
{
"chunk": 745,
"story": 85,
"summary": "Someone grieving blames the helpless stranger who caused the loss."
},
{
"chunk": 746,
"story": 85,
"summary": "Someone nobody can understand is judged worthless and thrown out."
},
{
"chunk": 747,
"story": 85,
"summary": "Someone despised keeps coming back to make amends until one person accepts them."
},
{
"chunk": 748,
"story": 85,
"summary": "Someone despised saves the life of a child belonging to those who scorned them."
},
{
"chunk": 749,
"story": 85,
"summary": "Someone's gratitude to one person changes their opinion of that person's whole people."
},
{
"chunk": 750,
"story": 86,
"summary": "Someone competent at everything else is helpless before the person they love."
},
{
"chunk": 751,
"story": 86,
"summary": "Someone shy manages only small talk with the person they hope to marry."
},
{
"chunk": 752,
"story": 86,
"summary": "Two people stumbled once on a success they cannot reproduce."
},
{
"chunk": 753,
"story": 86,
"summary": "Someone had one extraordinary success and has spent everything since trying to repeat it."
},
{
"chunk": 754,
"story": 86,
"summary": "Someone keeps searching for the one missing ingredient they cannot identify."
},
{
"chunk": 755,
"story": 86,
"summary": "Someone's casual remark gives others the answer they could not find."
},
{
"chunk": 756,
"story": 86,
"summary": "Someone suddenly finds the nerve they lacked and says the one thing they wanted to."
},
{
"chunk": 757,
"story": 87,
"summary": "Someone mistakes cruelty followed by gifts for proof of love."
},
{
"chunk": 758,
"story": 87,
"summary": "Someone asks another to explain a way of life they cannot understand."
},
{
"chunk": 759,
"story": 87,
"summary": "Someone compares their dull marriage with a violent one and starts to envy it."
},
{
"chunk": 760,
"story": 87,
"summary": "Someone watches another receive the reward they believe is missing from their own life."
},
{
"chunk": 761,
"story": 87,
"summary": "Someone feels neglected by a partner who is steady, dull and silent."
},
{
"chunk": 762,
"story": 87,
"summary": "Someone decides to provoke the reaction they think proves they are cared for."
},
{
"chunk": 763,
"story": 87,
"summary": "Someone deliberately picks a fight to make a quiet partner show feeling."
},
{
"chunk": 764,
"story": 87,
"summary": "Someone's provocation is answered with a kindness that feels like a humiliation."
},
{
"chunk": 765,
"story": 88,
"summary": "Someone too tired to give attention sends a child out to find it elsewhere."
},
{
"chunk": 766,
"story": 88,
"summary": "Someone risks the loyal person who loves them to prove a point about who owns whom."
},
{
"chunk": 767,
"story": 88,
"summary": "Someone blames another for faults they themselves introduced."
},
{
"chunk": 768,
"story": 88,
"summary": "Someone betrayed by the person they depend on vows revenge over drink."
},
{
"chunk": 769,
"story": 88,
"summary": "Someone who had nothing as a child sees their own beginning in another child."
},
{
"chunk": 770,
"story": 88,
"summary": "Someone driven past bearing turns on the person who shaped and then betrayed them."
},
{
"chunk": 771,
"story": 88,
"summary": "Someone destroyed by circumstances is judged as though they alone were responsible."
},
{
"chunk": 772,
"story": 88,
"summary": "Someone who neglected a child years ago is named as the true cause of their ruin."
},
{
"chunk": 773,
"story": 89,
"summary": "Someone thrown out of a powerful post has sunk to the bottom with nothing left."
},
{
"chunk": 774,
"story": 89,
"summary": "Two people fallen from very different heights share the same bench and the same hunger."
},
{
"chunk": 775,
"story": 89,
"summary": "Someone desperate for food goes out to try one last plan."
},
{
"chunk": 776,
"story": 89,
"summary": "Someone starving tries to sell out the friend who shares their bench."
},
{
"chunk": 777,
"story": 89,
"summary": "Someone willing to stoop to anything draws the line at betraying a friend."
},
{
"chunk": 778,
"story": 89,
"summary": "Someone starving refuses a fortune for betraying a person who was once their friend."
},
{
"chunk": 779,
"story": 89,
"summary": "Someone is offered their old life back on condition of a marriage they do not want."
},
{
"chunk": 780,
"story": 89,
"summary": "Someone who would sell a friend refuses to sell themselves, and stays poor."
},
{
"chunk": 781,
"story": 90,
"summary": "People stuck in a hot city pretend they prefer it to the places they cannot afford."
},
{
"chunk": 782,
"story": 90,
"summary": "Someone loudly praises the place they are stuck in to hide that they cannot leave."
},
{
"chunk": 783,
"story": 90,
"summary": "Someone who denies wanting a thing can think of nothing else when alone."
},
{
"chunk": 784,
"story": 90,
"summary": "Someone with little money competes against a rich rival for the same person."
},
{
"chunk": 785,
"story": 90,
"summary": "Someone outpaces a richer rival by effort and nerve for the person they love."
},
{
"chunk": 786,
"story": 90,
"summary": "Someone wakes from a memory of what they gave up and repeats the story they tell."
},
{
"chunk": 787,
"story": 90,
"summary": "Someone pretends to prefer hardship so the people they love will accept their sacrifice."
},
{
"chunk": 788,
"story": 91,
"summary": "Someone far from home falls gravely ill with only a friend to care for them."
},
{
"chunk": 789,
"story": 91,
"summary": "Someone gravely ill has given up, and their friend must find a reason for them to live."
},
{
"chunk": 790,
"story": 91,
"summary": "Someone fixes on a sign and ties their own survival to it."
},
{
"chunk": 791,
"story": 91,
"summary": "Someone tries to talk another out of despair and cannot reach them."
},
{
"chunk": 792,
"story": 91,
"summary": "Someone asks help of a failure who has talked for decades of one great work."
},
{
"chunk": 793,
"story": 91,
"summary": "Someone gruff about another's weakness quietly resolves to help them."
},
{
"chunk": 794,
"story": 91,
"summary": "Someone who expected the sign to fail watches it hold against all likelihood."
},
{
"chunk": 795,
"story": 91,
"summary": "Someone recovers their will to live, not knowing the cost to another."
},
{
"chunk": 796,
"story": 91,
"summary": "Someone who never achieved their great work gives their life to make one small act of hope."
},
{
"chunk": 797,
"story": 92,
"summary": "Someone overlooked becomes interesting to another the moment they appear to be grieving."
},
{
"chunk": 798,
"story": 92,
"summary": "Someone uses grief, real or not, to be noticed by a person they want."
},
{
"chunk": 799,
"story": 92,
"summary": "Someone tells an impressive story about a past love to someone they want to impress."
},
{
"chunk": 800,
"story": 92,
"summary": "Someone claims a dead love to make themselves more desirable to a living one."
},
{
"chunk": 801,
"story": 92,
"summary": "Someone shows proof of a story to a person who recognises the proof."
},
{
"chunk": 802,
"story": 92,
"summary": "Someone wants a powerful patron at their wedding but has a secret reason to keep them away."
},
{
"chunk": 803,
"story": 92,
"summary": "Someone asks their partner to choose them over a rival who may never have existed."
},
{
"chunk": 804,
"story": 92,
"summary": "Someone confesses a lie the other had already seen through and forgiven."
},
{
"chunk": 805,
"story": 93,
"summary": "Someone tired of their work seeks escape in a looser crowd."
},
{
"chunk": 806,
"story": 93,
"summary": "Someone lives in the careless disorder that their circle calls freedom."
},
{
"chunk": 807,
"story": 93,
"summary": "Someone grows rich by selling others an imitation of the freedom they crave."
},
{
"chunk": 808,
"story": 93,
"summary": "Someone holds a high place in a circle whose rules demand constant performance."
},
{
"chunk": 809,
"story": 93,
"summary": "Someone must keep up with a crowd where every remark is a test."
},
{
"chunk": 810,
"story": 93,
"summary": "Someone exhausts themselves keeping up the appearance of being free and easy."
},
{
"chunk": 811,
"story": 93,
"summary": "Someone leads a double life, escaping their free circle for a strict and silent home."
},
{
"chunk": 812,
"story": 93,
"summary": "Someone finds rest in the rules and hardships that others would flee."
},
{
"chunk": 813,
"story": 93,
"summary": "Someone escapes from freedom into strictness and calls that their holiday."
},
{
"chunk": 814,
"story": 93,
"summary": "Someone refreshed by strict rules breaks the unwritten rule of a permissive crowd."
},
{
"chunk": 815,
"story": 93,
"summary": "Someone points out that the cure for one excess is simply too much of the other."
},
{
"chunk": 816,
"story": 94,
"summary": "Someone with money and little time decides instantly on a stranger they have glimpsed."
},
{
"chunk": 817,
"story": 94,
"summary": "Someone tired and discouraged is approached at their weakest moment."
},
{
"chunk": 818,
"story": 94,
"summary": "Someone used to unwanted advances cautiously allows a sincere one."
},
{
"chunk": 819,
"story": 94,
"summary": "Someone pours out their heart to a person who cannot stay awake to hear it."
},
{
"chunk": 820,
"story": 94,
"summary": "Someone loses a sincere suitor through a word spoken without meaning it."
},
{
"chunk": 821,
"story": 95,
"summary": "Something passed from hand to hand has seen every kind of owner."
},
{
"chunk": 822,
"story": 95,
"summary": "Money earned by hard work arrives worn, while other money never touches it."
},
{
"chunk": 823,
"story": 95,
"summary": "Someone's fortune passes through every sort of hand, clean and dirty alike."
},
{
"chunk": 824,
"story": 95,
"summary": "Someone about to spend money freely has been refused the one use they wanted for it."
},
{
"chunk": 825,
"story": 95,
"summary": "Someone's offered gift is refused as dirty, and others gladly take it instead."
},
{
"chunk": 826,
"story": 95,
"summary": "Someone desperate appears silently before a person who has money to spare."
},
{
"chunk": 827,
"story": 95,
"summary": "Someone who fell from a respectable post accepts help from a person society scorns."
},
{
"chunk": 828,
"story": 95,
"summary": "Someone's help does its good regardless of where the means came from."
},
{
"chunk": 829,
"story": 96,
"summary": "Someone left alone with almost nothing holds a promise of help from a powerful stranger."
},
{
"chunk": 830,
"story": 96,
"summary": "Someone sets out alone to find the one person who promised help."
},
{
"chunk": 831,
"story": 96,
"summary": "Someone is shielded from a genuine chance by a guardian who assumes the worst."
},
{
"chunk": 832,
"story": 96,
"summary": "Someone wanting to earn their own living is stopped by people claiming to protect them."
},
{
"chunk": 833,
"story": 96,
"summary": "Someone takes honest work and is told it will damn others."
},
{
"chunk": 834,
"story": 96,
"summary": "Someone gives up work at a reformer's word and is left with nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 835,
"story": 96,
"summary": "Someone in need is advised by a moralist who offers nothing practical."
},
{
"chunk": 836,
"story": 96,
"summary": "Someone blocked from every honest job at last reaches the one person who promised help."
},
{
"chunk": 837,
"story": 96,
"summary": "Someone driven by every protector to the promised benefactor finds a predator waiting."
},
{
"chunk": 838,
"story": 96,
"summary": "Someone well-meaning closes every honest door and leaves the poor only the dangerous one."
}
]
}
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