Comparison made only through the published candidates' own summaries and findings (the underlying sources were not re-read; this is synthesis). Convergence: Sargent's 'hint, not story' (XXIII 15, 17) and Esenwein and Leeds's germ-only extraction (C3-B238-S62-01, -03) point the same way;...

Comparison made only through the published candidates' own summaries and findings (the underlying sources were not re-read; this is synthesis). Convergence: Sargent's 'hint, not story' (XXIII 15, 17) and Esenwein and Leeds's germ-only extraction (C3-B238-S62-01, -03) point the same way; Sargent's 'lines of least resistance' and 'too simple and obvious' (XXIV 12, 18) overlap Esenwein and Leeds's 'obvious development' fault (C3-B238-S62-04); Sargent's slight scenario then scenes (XXIV 14, 29) resembles the outline-then-episodes rule in Butcher's Poetics XVII (C3-B262-S77-03) and Baker's scenario (C3-B282-S91-03). Differences: Sargent fixes no order of work, Phillips does (C3-B189-S43-01), Baker asks first what the start means to you and says every start must end in story (C3-B282-S91-02, -03), Aristotle's outline comes with exclusions and a rule that episodes be relevant (C3-B262-S77-03, -04); and Sargent's reasons for excluding sub-plot are film-grammar reasons (leaders, no going back). C3-B297-S103 (Sargent's Ch. XX-XXII) was published while this batch was being written and is compared in its own finding: it supplies the plot-choice screen, a staleness read-back and a donor-recognition test that Ch. XXIII-XXIV only presuppose. 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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    {
      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate"
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