“I’ll tell you how the story ends,” he said, “and then you supply its beginning for me. I don’t quite know where to start, you see, even though I’m certain where I’ll finish. But if you can provide me with the first scene—or just the initial moments of the first scene—I’m sure the rest of the story will unfold naturally between its two fixed poles. I…
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