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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Charles, Wallace, Meg entitled A Wrinkle in Time.
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conversations.value: A Wrinkle in Time (2003 film): Meg Murry (Katie Stuart) is having a difficult time.\nHer father, astrophysicist dr Jack Murry (Chris Potter), has mysteriously disappeared.\nHer youngest brother, Charles Wallace (David Dorfman), a genius, is teased and belittled and thought to be stupid because he does not talk to anyone but family.\nMeg does not get along with her peers, teachers, her 10-year-old twin brothers (Munro Chambers, Thomas Chambers), or even with herself.\nInto this unhappy situation comes a stranger, the mysterious, weirdly dressed mrs Whatsit (Alfre Woodard), and her friends mrs Who (Alison Elliot) and mrs Which (Kate Nelligan).\nThey take Meg, Charles Wallace, and their new friend Calvin O\'Keefe (Gregory Smith) via tesseract to other planets, preparing the children for a mission to rescue dr Murry from the malevolent "IT" on the planet Camazotz.\nAlong the way they ride on the back of a beautiful winged creature (the transformed mrs Whatsit), learn about the shadow of tangible evil known as the Black Thing, and visit the Happy Medium (Seán Cullen).\nOnce they reach Camazotz, however, it is up to Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace to face the dangers of CENTRAL Central Intelligence, aided only by each other and a pair of mrs Who\'s glasses.\nThey do find and rescue dr Murry, but Charles Wallace is seduced away from his family by IT\'s agent, the Man with Red Eyes (Kyle Secor), and thus comes under the control of IT.\ndr Murry manages to tesser himself, Meg and Calvin, away from Camazotz, but Charles Wallace is left behind, trapped in the mind of IT.\nAngry with her father, Calvin and herself for leaving Charles Wallace behind, Meg is cared for by the sightless and motherly Aunt Beast (Ellen Dubin) on the planet Ixchel and argues with mrs Which about returning to rescue her brother.\nReturning alone to Camazotz, Meg must find a quality in herself—love—to free Charles Wallace, and possibly free the planet Camazotz as well.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Mrs, Meg, Wallace entitled A Wrinkle in Time.
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conversations.value: A Wrinkle in Time: Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry\'s classmates and teachers see her as a troublesome and stubborn student.\nHer family knows that she is emotionally immature but also sees her capable of doing great things.\nThe family includes her beautiful scientist mother, her absent scientist father, her athletic 10-year-old twin brothers, Sandy and Dennys; and her five-year-old brother Charles Wallace Murry, a child prodigy genius who can sometimes read Meg\'s mind.\nThe book begins with the line "It was a dark and stormy night," an allusion to the opening words in Edward Bulwer-Lytton\'s 1830 novel Paul Clifford.\nUnable to sleep during a thunderstorm, Meg descends from her attic room to find Charles Wallace sitting at the table drinking milk and eating bread and jam.\nThey are then joined by their mother, and are visited by their new eccentric neighbor, Mrs Whatsit.\nIn the course of conversation, Mrs Whatsit casually mentions there is such a thing as a tesseract, which causes dr Murry to almost faint.\nThe next morning, Meg discovers the term refers to a scientific concept her father was working on before his mysterious disappearance.\nThe following afternoon, Meg and Charles Wallace encounter Meg\'s schoolmate, Calvin O\'Keefe, a high-school junior who, although he is a "big man on campus", considers himself a misfit as well.\nThey then go to visit an old haunted house near town which Charles Wallace already knows is the home of Mrs Whatsit.\nThere they encounter a companion of Mrs Whatsit, the equally strange Mrs Who.\nShe promises that she and her friends will help Meg find and rescue her father.\nA budding love interest develops between Meg and Calvin.\nIn the evening, Charles Wallace declares it is time for them to go on their mission to save their father.\nThis is accompanied by the appearance of the third member of the "Mrs W\'s", Mrs Which, who appears to materialize out of nothing.\nMrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which turn out to be supernatural beings who transport Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O\'Keefe through the universe by means of tesseract, a fifth-dimensional phenomenon explained as being similar to folding the fabric of space and time.\nTheir first stop is the planet Uriel, a Utopian world filled with Centaur-like beings who live in a state of light and love.\nMrs Whatsit herself shows that she, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which are all these centaur-like creatures in disguise as humans.\nThere the "Mrs W\'s" reveal to the children that the universe is under attack from an evil being who appears as a large dark cloud called The Black Thing, which is essentially the personification of evil.\nThe children are then taken elsewhere to visit a woman who is a medium (the "Happy Medium") with a crystal ball.\nIn it, they see that Earth is partially covered by the darkness, although great religious figures, philosophers, and artists have been fighting against it.\nMrs Whatsit is revealed to be a former star who exploded in an act of self-sacrifice to fight the darkness.\nThe children then travel to the dark planet of Camazotz, which has "given in" to the Black Thing.\nMeg\'s father is trapped there.\nThey find that all the inhabitants behave in a mechanistic way and seem to be under the control of a single mind.\nAt the planet\'s central headquarters (described as CENTRAL Central Intelligence), they discover a red-eyed man with telepathic abilities who can cast a hypnotic spell over their minds.\nHe claims to know the whereabouts of their father.\nCharles Wallace deliberately looks into the red eyes of the man, allowing himself to be taken over by the mind controlling planet in order to find their father.\nUnder its influence, he takes Meg and Calvin to the place where dr Murry is being held prisoner because he would not succumb to the group mind.\nThe planet turns out to be controlled by an evil disembodied brain with powerful telepathic abilities, which the inhabitants of Camazotz call "IT".\nCharles Wallace takes them to the place where IT is held.\nIn such close proximity to IT, the children are threatened by a possible telepathic takeover of their minds.\nWith special powers from Mrs Who\'s glasses, dr Murry is able to "tesser" Calvin, Meg and himself away from Camazotz, but Charles Wallace is left behind, still under the influence of IT.\ndr Murry does not know how to protect Meg from the Black Thing which surrounds the planet as they tesser through it, which nearly kills her.\nWhen they arrive on the neighboring planet of Ixchel, Meg is nearly frozen, and paralyzed.\nCalvin and the Murrys are discovered by the planet\'s inhabitants, large, sightless "beasts" with tentacles and four arms, who prove both wise and gentle.\nMeg\'s paralysis is cured under the care of one inhabitant, whom Meg nicknames "Aunt Beast".\nMeg overcomes her anger at her father for leaving Charles Wallace on Camazotz, realizing that parents can\'t fix everything, and sometimes children can solve problems themselves.\nThen the trio of Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which arrive.\nThey charge Meg with rescuing Charles Wallace from IT, because only Meg has a strong enough bond with him.\nTheir father had last seen Charles Wallace when he was a baby and Calvin had only just met him.\nThey each give her a gift.\nMrs Whatsit gives Meg her love.\nMrs Who quotes to Meg a passage from the Bible about God choosing the foolish of the world to confound the wise, and the weak to defeat the strong.\nMrs Which tells Meg that she has one thing that IT does not have.\nUpon arriving at the building where IT is housed, Charles Wallace is still there under IT\'s influence.\nMeg realizes that the one thing she has that IT does not is love.\nShe focuses all her love at Charles Wallace and is able to free him from IT\'s control.\nMrs Who, Mrs Which and Mrs Whatsit tesser the Murrys and Calvin back to Earth.\nIn the vegetable garden they are reunited with mrs Murry and the twins.\nMrs Whatsit says that, although she and the others like the spectacle of the family reuniting, they have to go somewhere.\nBefore Mrs Whatsit finishes her sentence, she and the others disappear.
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: A Wrinkle in Time
  Again Meg's pencil was busy. "All you have to remember is that every ordinary fraction can be converted into an infinite periodic decimal fraction. See? So 3/7 is 0.428571."
  Meg's way of doing math is sort of like a tesseract - a shortcut that not everyone understands, but if you do get it, it becomes incredibly tedious to have to go the long way around. This passage also highlights the difference between Meg and her teachers: she seems to feel that the results are the important thing, and so long as she gets the right answer she should be golden; her teachers, however, are more concerned with the process, and with Meg following their set of rules to get to the result rather than the result itself.
  Calvin groaned and turned to Mrs. Murry. "I see what you mean. Her I wouldn't want to teach." (3.49-65)
  This is the flip side to the first passage quoted above - not only can things exist without our understanding why they do, but just because we don't understand doesn't mean it doesn't make sense in a way we just don't get.
  This sounds a lot like faith - taking something as true even if it doesn't make sense logically or if you don't have enough evidence to support it as fact.
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: So fate doesn't control our actions, but we're not entirely free either - the trick is to make our voices heard within the limitations placed on us, and perhaps even make something beautiful out of our restrictions.
  By making evil an external force, the novel suggests that living beings are intrinsically good if they're not messed with from the outside.
  In refusing to explain the origin or goals of the Black Thing, and suggesting that it may be fought through seeking knowledge, the novel portrays evil as fundamentally irrational.
  Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the shadow was the stars were not visible.
  What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear that was beyond shuddering, beyond crying or screaming, beyond the possibility of comfort? (4.131-132)
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conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
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conversations.value: 131-132).
  What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear that was beyond shuddering, beyond crying or screaming, beyond the possibility of comfort? (4. And where the shadow was the stars were not visible. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. The dark shadow was still there.
  Meg looked.
  In refusing to explain the origin or goals of the Black Thing, and suggesting that it may be fought through seeking knowledge, the novel portrays evil as fundamentally irrational.
  By making evil an external force, the novel suggests that living beings are intrinsically good if they're not messed with from the outside.So fate doesn't control our actions, but we're not entirely free either - the trick is to make our voices heard within the limitations placed on us, and perhaps even make something beautiful out of our restrictions
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conversations.value: Give me the first three paragraphs for this book.. End with the sentence ' On his hands and knees on an anti-grav unit a centimeter above the ground, he used the fine brush to clear away dust from what had been, thousands of years ago, a breathtaking mosaic tile floor.'.
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conversations.value: A Wrinkle in Time
  What the hell was taking them so long? Luke Parillo had sent the urgent interstellar message over a week ago requesting assistance. Sometimes it still galled him not to have a starship at his disposal any longer. Not that he'd ever admit that to anyone.
  It wasn't finding the corpses that had so unsettled him. It was finding thousand-year-old corpses in the midst of Earth technology from a hundred years in the future that really set off alarm bells. And Parillo lacked the means with which to investigate.
  Parillo kept at his work because that was the only thing keeping him sane while he waited. On his hands and knees on an anti-grav unit a centimeter above the ground, he used the fine brush to clear away dust from what had been, thousands of years ago, a breathtaking mosaic tile floor.
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conversations.value: Despite dirty looks from the two remaining security officers, Dennis took the lead and swung around onto the ladder. The light spilling in from the bridge showed that the accessway led the height of the ship, meaning all five decks. Based on its apparent size, Parillo estimated the ship would have had a crew of about forty.
  One of the men from security followed Captain Dennis and the other went last after Parillo, who activated another lamp to track them before he descended the ladder.
  It took Dennis a moment to get the door open below. Once she was finally able to break the seal, she swapped the magnetic handle for her pistol before pushing the door open and going through.
  Besides, Parillo didn't speak his thought out loud, She will kill me if she doesn't get the chance to see this.
  Dennis signaled her ship. "Adams, contact the archeologists. Request that Vale come down to our location.
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conversations.value: Give me the last two paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Parillo agreed. The sacrifice they'd made was noble regardless. But he was especially glad it hadn't been made in vain.
  Judging by Saran's stern visage, he certainly thought his EMF should be responsible for their counterpart's research. And Parillo knew Vale would happily give him a copy of all the information.