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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Adrian, Trefusis, Hugo entitled The Liar.
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conversations.value: The Liar (novel): The book opens as the protagonist, Adrian Healey, and his mentor, Professor Donald Trefusis, are at Mozart\'s birthplace in Salzburg, where Adrian witnesses the (staged) murder of their contact.\nThe narrative then shifts to Adrian\'s time at public school, where he has carefully groomed himself to convey the image of a witty, highly extroverted young gay man; however, despite his image, and, despite regarding sex as his "public pride", he finds himself unable to express his love for the beautiful Hugo Cartwright.\nAnother student, Paul Trotter (known as "Pigs Trotter" [sic]) hangs himself due to his unrequited love for Adrian.\nAdrian is shown later in the novel to be touchy on the subject of suicide as a result.\nPrior to Trotter\'s funeral, Adrian has a sexual encounter with Hugo while pretending to be asleep.\nAdrian is later expelled from school for writing an article discussing the tradition of hidden behaviours that could be considered homosexual at public schools; consequently, he takes his A-level examinations in a Gloucestershire state school.\nAdrian claims to have run away from home due to unhappiness, subsequently becoming a rent boy, but it is later revealed, in an overheard conversation, that this probably never occurred.\nEventually, Adrian takes on the role of schoolmaster and has his first sexual encounter with a woman, a fellow member of staff at the school.\nThe school years finish with Adrian\'s cricket team defeating the team of Hugo Cartwright, to whom Adrian no longer feels attracted.\nJust as Adrian and his team are about to leave the school at which Hugo is a master he admits to Hugo that he was awake during the incident before Trotter\'s funeral.\nAdrian attends the fictional st Matthew\'s College, Cambridge and is given a challenge to produce something original by his tutor Professor Donald Trefusis.\nWith the aid of his girlfriend – and later wife and acclaimed producer – Jenny de Woolf, and his housemate Gary, he writes and claims to have discovered a lost manuscript by Charles Dickens which dealt with the child sex trade.\nThe discovery brings Jenny and the college fame, but it also results in a dialogue between Adrian and Hugo, who has become an alcoholic.\nHugo believes that Adrian hates him, and points to Adrian\'s duplicity as proof.\nAdrian corrects him and the two leave things on a friendly note.\nAfter graduation, Adrian attends a farcical meeting where he and other attendees discuss the arrest of Trefusis, who was arrested on charges of cottaging, sabotaging the footage of an onlooking BBC film crew.\nIt is later revealed that he was actually undertaking a document exchange preceded by two kisses on the cheek as is custom in several European countries, such as Hungary.\nAdrian joins Trefusis in a forced sabbatical, which they claim to spend studying the fricative shift in English.\nIn actuality, the year is spent in a game of espionage in which they must acquire the parts for Mendax (from the Latin adjective meaning "lying, deceptive"), a lie-inhibiting device from his Hungarian friend Szabó.\nA showdown results with Adrian\'s uncle David (Sir David Pearce of MI5) and Trefusis, during which it is revealed that Pearce\'s aide was a double agent working for Trefusis.\nIt is also revealed that the murders that Adrian witnessed were staged to scare Trefusis into giving Mendax to MI5, and that Mendax was fictional.\nSubsequently Adrian overhears a conversation between Trefusis and Pearce where it is revealed that the espionage adventure was just a game to counter boredom, meaning that several parts of the story were untrue.\nAdrian remembers a letter written to him by de Woolf saying that while young girls grew up, young boys did not, making their education irrelevant and just a game.\nThe book concludes with Adrian, now a Cambridge fellow, recruiting a new spy for a new game.\nThe characters David Pearce and Dickon Lister refer to other characters by code names:.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Lyon, Colonel, Capadose entitled The Liar.
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conversations.value: The Liar (short story): Oliver Lyon, a successful artist, is lodging at the house of an elderly baronet, Sir David, whose portrait he has been engaged to paint.\nAt diner on the night of his arrival he recognises among the company a woman with whom he used to be in love.\nHe has not seen her for twelve years, and knows her to be married.\nHer husband, Colonel Clement Capadose, is a brilliant and handsome gentleman with whom she appeared to be very much in love, and Lyon, having accepted her as something unattainable to him, feels no real jealousy towards him, being satisfied with her apparent happiness.\nHe at first admires the Colonel, but over the course of the diner, when he narrates a good many improbable stories that Lyon cannot believe, his opinion of him is rather altered, although he imputes it to a romantic tendency on the Colonel's part.\nHowever, he is rather startled by what appears a plain lie when the colonel tells him of a recent occurrence in the house, which his host Arthur Ashmore, the son of Sir David, states to be completely false.\nAfterwards, while painting Sir David's portrait, the baronet explains to him that Colonel Capadose is a compulsive liar.\nHe extenuates his fault, saying that he has no bad intentions, but merely cannot give a straight answer.\nHis wife, Lyon realises, tries to shield him by not revealing his lies, and even supporting what he says.\nSufficiently shocked by his, the artist hopes that she never actively participates in her husband's deceptions, and wonders how much her nature has been corrupted.\nTo find out how far she will go to save his name, Lyon spends as much time as possible with them, painting first a portrait of their nine year old daughter Amy, and then of the Liar himself.\nIn the portrait, Lyon attempts to express the Colonel's deceitful nature fully, hoping that he might awaken his wife's moral sense.\nHe tries to draw Mrs Capadose out about her husband's character, but she only says that his nature is noble, and hopes that Lyon will express no more than this in his picture.\nTo capture the spirit of the Liar more fully, he encourages him to talk as much as possible during the sittings, and is given in return a vast amount of invented facts and anecdotes.\nOn one occasion a poor model, Geraldine, comes into the studio seeking work.\nLyon sends her away, but Colonel Capadose falsely tells him that she is not a model at all, but a mad woman with a vendetta against him who has been perusing him for years.\nSometime later the season ends, and the Capadoses leave with the portrait nearly finished.\nLyon also leaves the town, but returning briefly to see his unfinished picture, find that the Capadoses have come unannounced into his rooms.\nComing upon them unnoticed, Lyon realises that Mrs Capadose has seen in the picture what he hoped she would, her husband's vile nature, and that she is ashamed of him.\nShe terms the portrait 'cruel' but tries to leave before her husband, in a passion, rips up the canvas.\nThey depart without knowing that Lyon saw them, and he too leaves, having seen the woman Geraldine about the house.\nLyon waits to see how the couple explain events.\nWhen they return to the town soon after, they act as if nothing has happened, and ask for the sitting to recommence.\nWhen Lyon tells them what has happened, they feign ignorance and Colonel Capadose, who also met Geraldine on the day, instantly accuses her of the deed.\nThis is the last straw for Lyon; despite Sir David's affirmation that the Liar would never harm anyone, he has now 'wantonly sacrificing an innocent person', and his wife was an accessory to the misdeed.\nAfter giving her one last chance to confess to the deception, and to admit that she only shielded her husband form love, which Lyon could readily forgive, her leaves her to spare her further pain, remarking that 'she was still in love with the Colonel - he had trained her too well'.
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conversations.value: The Liar (short story): Oliver Lyon, a successful artist, is lodging at the house of an elderly baronet, Sir David, whose portrait he has been engaged to paint.\nAt diner on the night of his arrival he recognises among the company a woman with whom he used to be in love.\nHe has not seen her for twelve years, and knows her to be married.\nHer husband, Colonel Clement Capadose, is a brilliant and handsome gentleman with whom she appeared to be very much in love, and Lyon, having accepted her as something unattainable to him, feels no real jealousy towards him, being satisfied with her apparent happiness.\nHe at first admires the Colonel, but over the course of the diner, when he narrates a good many improbable stories that Lyon cannot believe, his opinion of him is rather altered, although he imputes it to a romantic tendency on the Colonel's part.\nHowever, he is rather startled by what appears a plain lie when the colonel tells him of a recent occurrence in the house, which his host Arthur Ashmore, the son of Sir David, states to be completely false.\nAfterwards, while painting Sir David's portrait, the baronet explains to him that Colonel Capadose is a compulsive liar.\nHe extenuates his fault, saying that he has no bad intentions, but merely cannot give a straight answer.\nHis wife, Lyon realises, tries to shield him by not revealing his lies, and even supporting what he says.\nSufficiently shocked by his, the artist hopes that she never actively participates in her husband's deceptions, and wonders how much her nature has been corrupted.\nTo find out how far she will go to save his name, Lyon spends as much time as possible with them, painting first a portrait of their nine year old daughter Amy, and then of the Liar himself.\nIn the portrait, Lyon attempts to express the Colonel's deceitful nature fully, hoping that he might awaken his wife's moral sense.\nHe tries to draw Mrs Capadose out about her husband's character, but she only says that his nature is noble, and hopes that Lyon will express no more than this in his picture.\nTo capture the spirit of the Liar more fully, he encourages him to talk as much as possible during the sittings, and is given in return a vast amount of invented facts and anecdotes.\nOn one occasion a poor model, Geraldine, comes into the studio seeking work.\nLyon sends her away, but Colonel Capadose falsely tells him that she is not a model at all, but a mad woman with a vendetta against him who has been perusing him for years.\nSometime later the season ends, and the Capadoses leave with the portrait nearly finished.\nLyon also leaves the town, but returning briefly to see his unfinished picture, find that the Capadoses have come unannounced into his rooms.\nComing upon them unnoticed, Lyon realises that Mrs Capadose has seen in the picture what he hoped she would, her husband's vile nature, and that she is ashamed of him.\nShe terms the portrait 'cruel' but tries to leave before her husband, in a passion, rips up the canvas.\nThey depart without knowing that Lyon saw them, and he too leaves, having seen the woman Geraldine about the house.\nLyon waits to see how the couple explain events.\nWhen they return to the town soon after, they act as if nothing has happened, and ask for the sitting to recommence.\nWhen Lyon tells them what has happened, they feign ignorance and Colonel Capadose, who also met Geraldine on the day, instantly accuses her of the deed.\nThis is the last straw for Lyon; despite Sir David's affirmation that the Liar would never harm anyone, he has now 'wantonly sacrificing an innocent person', and his wife was an accessory to the misdeed.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Rosaura, Lelio, Beatrice entitled The Liar.
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conversations.value: The Liar (Goldoni play): Lelio, a Venetian who has spent years away from home, returns to Venice.\nHe courts the two daughters of Doctor Balanzone, Beatrice and Rosaura, without telling them which one he really loves.\nMeanwhile, each girl has another suitor, Florindo for Rosaura and Ottavio for Beatrice.\nFlorindo is shy, however, and will not tell Rosaura that he loves her.\nThis allows Lelio to concoct fabulous lies and convince Rosaura that he wishes to marry her.\nMeanwhile, Lelio's servant Arlecchino tries to woo the Doctor's servant Columbina away from Brighella, Florindo's friend.\nLelio's lies get him into deeper and deeper trouble with the girls, their father, and his own father Pantalone.\nAt the end, it is revealed that while in Rome he married a Roman lady, Cleonice Anselmi.\nHe departs to go to her, leaving Rosaura and Beatrice free to marry Florindo and Ottavio, and Columbina free to marry Brighella.
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: The Liar
  But for all the sensational impact of the magazine, Adrian felt somehow a sense of anti-climax. His article would never make a shred of difference to anything. He hadn't exactly expected open warfare in the form-rooms, but it was depressing to realise that if he and Bullock and the others were exposed tomorrow they would be expelled, talked about for a while and then completely forgotten. Boys were cowardly and conventional. That's why the system worked, he supposed.
  He sensed too that if he came across the article in later life, as a twenty-year-old, he would shudder with embarrassment at the pretension of it. But why should his future self sneer at what he was now? It was terrible to know that time would lead him to betray everything he now believed in.
  He was one of a long line of mimsy and embittered middle-class sensitives who disguised their feeble and decadent lust as something spiritual and Socratic.
  In a temper, he took out a large Bible, opened it at random and wrote 'Irony' down the margin in red biro. In the fly-leaf he scribbled anagrams of his name. Air and an arid nadir, a drain, a radian.
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  But for all the sensational impact of the magazine, Adrian felt somehow a sense of anti-climax. His article would never make a shred of difference to anything. He hadn't exactly expected open warfare in the form-rooms, but it was depressing to realise that if he and Bullock and the others were exposed tomorrow they would be expelled, talked about for a while and then completely forgotten. Boys were cowardly and conventional. That's why the system worked, he supposed.
  He sensed too that if he came across the article in later life, as a twenty-year-old, he would shudder with embarrassment at the pretension of it. But why should his future self sneer at what he was now? It was terrible to know that time would lead him to betray everything he now believed in.
  He was one of a long line of mimsy and embittered middle-class sensitives who disguised their feeble and decadent lust as something spiritual and Socratic.
  In a temper, he took out a large Bible, opened it at random and wrote 'Irony' down the margin in red biro. In the fly-leaf he scribbled anagrams of his name.
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'They went through to the sitting room, Adrian wiping his hands on a blue-and-white-striped butcher's apron he liked to wear when cooking'.
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conversations.value: They went through to the sitting room, Adrian wiping his hands on a blue-and-white-striped butcher's apron he liked to wear when cooking.
  It might have been the garlic and the onions that he was chopping, it might have been anger, it might have been nothing more than performance - because it seemed dramatically the right thing to do under the circumstances - but for whatever reason, tears were in Adrian's eyes. He wiped them away. 'I'm sorry, Angela.'
  Adrian displayed just the right kind of affection towards Guy over dinner. Not whorish, but adoring; not clinging or possessive, but happy and trusting. Michael and Angela went away full of praise for his cooking, his wit and his discretion.
  On the evening before his last day of filming, Guy asked Adrian to take an envelope to a house in Battersea and bring back the reply. Zak, the man to whom he was to deliver the envelope, would be expecting him, but he was a famous Dutch pop-star, shy of publicity, so Adrian shouldn't be surprised if he behaved oddly.
  Adrian couldn't think of any Dutch pop-stars who needed to be shy of publicity in South London, but Guy's manner and lack of soupy terms of endearment suggested that this was a serious business, so he said nothing and next morning went happily on his way.
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conversations.value: Give me the last three paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Adrian leant back in his chair, fed the paper into his fax machine and pressed an autodial key. He watched the sheet chug through the machine before crossing to his window again.
  On the other side of the court he could make out the figure of an old man through an open window on the first floor. The figure stooped down for a moment and fiddled with something on his desk and then came up bearing a ripped sheet of paper.
  He turned in Adrian's direction, flourishing the paper like a Morris dancer waving a handkerchief, and executed a quick little jig.