In Sargent's Ch. XXIII-XXIV (1916), which passages are his own claims, which are his worked examples, which are people he quotes, which are market assertions, and what OCR and provenance limits apply?

1916 US practice, source-layer map. Layer A (Sargent's rules): the routes to an idea, the two methods, the diagnoses in the Ben and Mary revisions, the sub-plot rule, the advice to alternate and to let a story cool. Layer B (his worked examples): Dave Vroom (XXIII 6), the dynamo girl (9-10), the press-clip stories (17-18), the circus drummer (21-22), the wheat and castaway stories (26), the locomotive facts (27), the Edison harem story (34), and all of Ben and Mary (XXIV 15-24, 30-32). Layer C (people or sources he reports, unverified): Dana (XXIII 25), a Boston newspaper's Idea Machine (29), Phil Lang (XXIV 38), Geoffrey of Monmouth and Shakespeare (XXIV 3-4) and Bannister Merwin's quoted letter (XXIV 26), with which Sargent explicitly disagrees (27). Layer D (market assertions): editors take none of a flood of stories, no editor will bother with a one-hit author, the coal dealer analogy, prices 'a few dollars' against 'a hundred'. The OCR has about 6 'tl' for 'th' errors, 10 stray symbols and some 128 line-break hyphen remnants in about 60,000 characters, garbled names, and one offensive period term, which this candidate does not quote. Curator qualifications: Plot-getting routes, the two worked methods, the four-revision Ben and Mary build and the named faults are verified as Sargent's text. The comparison row (-08) is synthesis by candidate ID, and the -09 build-and-check is a labelled proposal. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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