What division of labour between incident and speech does Poetics XIX (Butcher) set, and which show-versus-tell checks follow from it, as proposals?
XIX says incidents and speeches are to be handled with the same aims (pity, fear, importance, probability), with one difference: incidents 'should speak for themselves without verbal exposition', while the effects of speech must be produced by the speaker and as a result of the speech. It adds a rhetorical question: if the Thought were revealed apart from what the speaker says, what would the speaker's business be? Read together, a speech earns its place only where the effect depends on its being said. That reading, and the two checks below, are proposals; the text says nothing about narration, dialogue craft or screens.
XIX says incidents and speeches are to be handled with the same aims (pity, fear, importance, probability), with one difference: incidents 'should speak for themselves without verbal exposition', while the effects of speech must be produced by the speaker and as a result of the speech. It adds a rhetorical question: if the Thought were revealed apart from what the speaker says, what would the speaker's business be? Read together, a speech earns its place only where the effect depends on its being said. That reading, and the two checks below, are proposals; the text says nothing about narration, dialogue craft or screens.
Curator qualifications: The rule that incidents speak for themselves is in the source; the redundancy checks are proposals.
Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.
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- [inference] XIX says incidents and speeches are to be handled with the same aims (pity, fear, importance, probability), with one difference: incidents 'should speak for themselves without verbal exposition', while the effects of speech must be produced by the speaker and as a result of the speech. It adds a rhetorical question: if the Thought were revealed apart from what the speaker says, what would the speaker's business be? Read together, a speech earns its place only where the effect depends on its being said. That reading, and the two checks below, are proposals; the text says nothing about narration, dialogue craft or screens. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source
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