conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the first paragraph for a story with the title 'Plundered Hearts'.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Plundered Hearts
  The "three hags" referred to are the Fates of Greek mythology: Clotho, who spun the thread of an individual life; Lachesis, who measured its length; and Atropos, who cut it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me another paragraph.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: The first section is set in Chicago in the late 1960s. Three raw recruits, or boots, from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center get drunk one night and end up at the local tattoo parlor—or tat shack, as it's called. Flashes are those predesigned emblems one can choose. A sleeve is a tattooed scene that covers one's entire arm, wrist to shoulder. The third sailor gets one of these, and by flexing a muscle or moving his arm, he can make the tattooed underwater scene come to a strange life. I should add that the first of the recruits has what used to be called "unspoken desires" for the second.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the last three paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: The poem imagines that boy decades later, living in San Francisco and having himself fallen in love with a Japanese-American girl who has been interned in a Wyoming camp during the war. Frank—improbably described in the opera as being a blond, blue-eyed child—has escaped the fate of fellow Japanese-Americans, perhaps all the more to be haunted by a past he can only dimly recall. Dwight Eisenhower's brother Milton, as director of the War Relocation Authority, supervised the transfer of Japanese-American citizens to remote work camps. After 1942, 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were, for alleged security reasons, forcibly removed from their homes on the West Coast. They were first taken to "assembly centers"—often fairgrounds or racing tracks—and later assigned to one of the ten relocation centers. Heart Mountain, a treeless plain between Powell and Cody, near the Shoshone Rover, eventually housed 14,000 people in hastily constructed barrack buildings, where the internees organized a school system, a newspaper and movie houses, farming crews, sports teams, and scout troops. Not until December 1944 did the Supreme Court declare it illegal to hold American citizens in camps against their will.
  In the sequence's third and tenth sonnets, which both view the story through the lens of Japanese legend, for the final couplet I have substituted a rhymed tanka.
  Each of the poem's three sections is named for a famous overture—by, respectively, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Suppé.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Each of the poem's three sections is named for a famous overture—by, respectively, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Suppé. Frank—improbably described in the opera as being a blond, blue-eyed child—has escaped the fate of fellow Japanese-Americans, perhaps all the more to be haunted by a past he can only dimly recall. Dwight Eisenhower's brother Milton, as director of the War Relocation Authority, supervised the transfer of Japanese-American citizens to remote work camps. After 1942, 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were, for alleged security reasons, forcibly removed from their homes on the West Coast. They were first taken to "assembly centers"—often fairgrounds or racing tracks—and later assigned to one of the ten relocation centers. Heart Mountain, a treeless plain between Powell and Cody, near the Shoshone Rover, eventually housed 14,000 people in hastily constructed barrack buildings, where the internees organized a school system, a newspaper and movie houses, farming crews, sports teams, and scout troops. Not until December 1944 did the Supreme Court declare it illegal to hold American citizens in camps against their will.
  In the sequence's third and tenth sonnets, which both view the story through the lens of Japanese legend, for the final couplet I have substituted a rhymed tanka.The poem imagines that boy decades later, living in San Francisco and having himself fallen in love with a Japanese-American girl who has been interned in a Wyoming camp during the war.