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For vice, Example 37 calls 'white slave', 'drug terror' and underworld plays immoral where vice conquers and virtue is weak; his realism test is what could be disclosed 'in promiscuous company'. The chapter never uses the words violence, depict or suggest; the suggestion-versus-depiction idea is expressed through Example 39.","status":"active","body":{"text":"1914 US trade advice. Phillips says crime and sin are everywhere in drama and are needed as the foil of goodness, so the writer 'should glory in the omnipresence of sin and crime, tho never glorify it'. What matters is cause and effect, not the act: the sight of a murder or suicide serves only 'morbid curiosity', and 'how' a crime is done belongs to criminology. His technique (Example 39) shows a killing through separate scenes: culprit and victim apart, the instant before the deed, an interposed reaction scene (a shot or scuffle heard), and the aftermath. For vice, Example 37 calls 'white slave', 'drug terror' and underworld plays immoral where vice conquers and virtue is weak; his realism test is what could be disclosed 'in promiscuous company'. The chapter never uses the words violence, depict or suggest; the suggestion-versus-depiction idea is expressed through Example 39.\n\nCurator qualifications: Crime as foil; method withheld; Example 39 cut-away is the only suggestion device (0 hits for violence/depict/suggest).\n\nEvidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.","citations":[{"url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70937/pg70937.txt","note":"ch. 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