# According to Sargent (Ch. XLIX), what should an adaptor keep, cut, invent or leave unchanged, and does the answer differ for a novel and for a poem or speech?

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Sargent separates source types. For novels and dramas he says hold rigidly to the facts and do not alter the author's plot, because one change cascades; he allows cutting side material and minor characters, folding unavoidable side material into the main plot. For a poem or speech, plot is absent, so the adaptor draws suggestion and invents plot, as in his Spartacus example (a friend's dying charge, a jailor). He also requires turning off-page book events into action. The chapter gives no compression ratio.

Sargent separates source types. For novels and dramas he says hold rigidly to the facts and do not alter the author's plot, because one change cascades; he allows cutting side material and minor characters, folding unavoidable side material into the main plot. For a poem or speech, plot is absent, so the adaptor draws suggestion and invents plot, as in his Spartacus example (a friend's dying charge, a jailor). He also requires turning off-page book events into action. The chapter gives no compression ratio.

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.

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      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLIX offsets per candidate"
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```

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- [sourced_fact] Sargent separates source types. For novels and dramas he says hold rigidly to the facts and do not alter the author's plot, because one change cascades; he allows cutting side material and minor characters, folding unavoidable side material into the main plot. For a poem or speech, plot is absent, so the adaptor draws suggestion and invents plot, as in his Spartacus example (a friend's dying charge, a jailor). He also requires turning off-page book events into action. The chapter gives no compression ratio. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLIX offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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