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How does Sargent (Ch. XLIX paras 13-16) tell an adaptor to handle a source that tells events out of order, recalls the past or narrates a fact, and what does his Spartacus example show?

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Sargent says to list events in order of occurrence even when some will be shown as visions, prefers no visions, and warns that prose is free of time while the adaptor must be economical with leaders or the film becomes illustrated quotations. His Spartacus example re-sorts an eleven-item speech into a chronological chain (OCR: 6-7-8-9-3-4-5-1-2-10-11) with one item flagged as vision, then adds an ending because a narration with no end is not a plot. The Reginald/Venice passage is a comic illustration of out-of-order disclosure.

Sargent says to list events in order of occurrence even when some will be shown as visions, prefers no visions, and warns that prose is free of time while the adaptor must be economical with leaders or the film becomes illustrated quotations. His Spartacus example re-sorts an eleven-item speech into a chronological chain (OCR: 6-7-8-9-3-4-5-1-2-10-11) with one item flagged as vision, then adds an ending because a narration with no end is not a plot. The Reginald/Venice passage is a comic illustration of out-of-order disclosure. Curator qualifications: Adaptation order, source-type rules, event ordering, the bounded negatives on dialogue and inner thought, and reconstruction are verified as Sargent's text. The claim/example/market split in -07 holds. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] Sargent says to list events in order of occurrence even when some will be shown as visions, prefers no visions, and warns that prose is free of time while the adaptor must be economical with leaders or the film becomes illustrated quotations. His Spartacus example re-sorts an eleven-item speech into a chronological chain (OCR: 6-7-8-9-3-4-5-1-2-10-11) with one item flagged as vision, then adds an ending because a narration with no end is not a plot. The Reginald/Venice passage is a comic illustration of out-of-order disclosure. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLIX offsets per candidate source

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