In Sargent's 1916 Chapter XIII, how is suspense built and sustained over repeated attempts (hope raised and dashed), how is it lost (foregone result, one-sided struggle, effortless win, excess), and which statements are claims and which are examples?
1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XIII): suspense exists only while the outcome is in doubt. Build it by making the protagonist's fight necessary and the result uncertain, then alternate hope and doubt through attempts that fail (each failure is a crisis that provokes a fresh, harder effort). It is lost by a foregone result, a one-sided struggle or a win that looks easy; prolonging helps up to a point beyond which interest falls, but the point is not located. The race, the Johnstone stair act, Tim and Green and the Sam/Mary/Gregg odds are examples; the Johnstone remark is a second-hand performer anecdote.
1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XIII): suspense exists only while the outcome is in doubt. Build it by making the protagonist's fight necessary and the result uncertain, then alternate hope and doubt through attempts that fail (each failure is a crisis that provokes a fresh, harder effort). It is lost by a foregone result, a one-sided struggle or a win that looks easy; prolonging helps up to a point beyond which interest falls, but the point is not located. The race, the Johnstone stair act, Tim and Green and the Sam/Mary/Gregg odds are examples; the Johnstone remark is a second-hand performer anecdote.
Curator qualifications: Struggle/suspense/crisis/climax/anti-climax rules verified as Sargent claims, with examples labelled; relayed Aristotle/Phillips/Archer comparison is by candidate ID (relayed rows, not re-read); -07 agent check and L10 experiment are proposals, untested.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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