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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled The Chrysalids about Waknut, Devil, David with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense.
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conversations.value: In the community of Waknut it is believed mutants are the products of the Devil and must be stamped out. When David befriends a girl with a slight abnormality, he begins to understand the nature of fear and oppression. When he develops his own deviation, he must learn to conceal his secret.
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book titled The Chrysalids.
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conversations.value: The Chrysalids: An undetermined number of years into the future, post-apocalypse rural Labrador has become a warmer and more hospitable place than it is at present.\nThe inhabitants of Labrador have vague historical recollections of the "Old People", a technologically advanced civilisation which existed long ago and which they believe was destroyed when God sent "Tribulation" to the world to punish their forebears\' sins.\nThe society that has survived in Labrador is loosely reminiscent of the American frontier during the 18th century, with a level of technology in use similar to the Amish of the present-day United States.\nThe inhabitants practise a form of fundamentalist Christianity with post-apocalyptic prohibitions.\nThey believe that to follow God\'s word and prevent another Tribulation, they must preserve absolute normality among the surviving humans, plants and animals, and therefore follow a eugenics policy.\nGenetic invariance has been elevated to the highest religious principle, and humans with even minor mutations are considered "Blasphemies" and the handiwork of the Devil.\nIndividuals not conforming to a strictly defined physical norm are either killed or sterilised and banished to the Fringes, a lawless and untamed area still rife with animal and plant mutations.\nArguments occur over the keeping of a tailless cat or the possession of oversized horses.\nThese are deemed by the government to be legitimate breeds, either preexisting or achieved through conventional breeding.\nThe government\'s position is considered both cynical and heretical by many of the orthodox frontier community.\nThe inland rural settlement of Waknuk is a frontier farming community, populated with hardy and generally pious individuals.\nTen-year-old David Strorm, the son of Waknuk\'s zealous and religious patriarch, has inexplicably vivid dreams of brightly lit cities and horseless carts that are at odds with his pre-industrial experience.\nDespite David\'s rigorous religious training, he befriends Sophie, a girl carefully concealing the fact that she has six toes on each foot.\nWith the nonchalance of childhood, David keeps her secret.\nThe subsequent discovery of Sophie\'s mutation, and her family\'s attempted flight from the feared reprisals, cause David to wonder at the brutal persecution of human "Blasphemies" and the ritual culling of animal and plant "Deviations".\nDavid and a few other children in the district harbour their own invisible mutation: they have telepathic abilities.\nThe group are initially supported, advised and protected by David\'s moderate Uncle Axel, who comes to know about the group through some unguarded chattering when David is still small.\nUncle Axel goes so far in his protection as to kill the husband of one of the group who was abusing his telepath wife, and about to blackmail the rest of the group.\nHowever, eventually some of the group are exposed when David\'s young sister Petra unknowingly exerts a mental force of command for help in her distress when a big cat attacks her horse.\nAs a result of the suspicions, two telepaths Katherine and Sally are captured and tortured for information, whilst David, his half-cousin Rosalind, and Petra flee to the Fringes.\nThey are quickly pursued by a large contingent of men from across several districts who have been offered a generous reward.\nThe intention is to capture and interrogate them, as well as to beat down the surviving people who have been sterilised and banished to the Fringes.\nHowever the posse includes Michael, a fellow telepath who covertly assists their escape.\nUnexpectedly, through the extremely strong telepathic range of Petra, they make contact with a more advanced society in a distant country they believe to be called Sealand.\nWith the help of both Michael and David\'s six toed friend Sophie, who now lives in a Fringes community, David, Rosalind and Petra elude their would-be captors and are rescued by a Sealand expedition sent to discover the source of Petra\'s telepathic transmissions.\nOwing to the limited amount of fuel, they are unable to take the Sealand craft back to Waknuk to collect Rachel.\nMichael remains behind to save her, and promises that they will then find their own way to the others.
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Waknut, Devil, David.. Start with the sentence 'The Chrysalids: An undetermined number of years into the future, post-apocalypse rural Labrador has become a warmer and more hospitable place than it is at present'.
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conversations.value: The Chrysalids: An undetermined number of years into the future, post-apocalypse rural Labrador has become a warmer and more hospitable place than it is at present.\nThe inhabitants of Labrador have vague historical recollections of the "Old People", a technologically advanced civilisation which existed long ago and which they believe was destroyed when God sent "Tribulation" to the world to punish their forebears\' sins.\nThe society that has survived in Labrador is loosely reminiscent of the American frontier during the 18th century, with a level of technology in use similar to the Amish of the present-day United States.\nThe inhabitants practise a form of fundamentalist Christianity with post-apocalyptic prohibitions.\nThey believe that to follow God\'s word and prevent another Tribulation, they must preserve absolute normality among the surviving humans, plants and animals, and therefore follow a eugenics policy.\nGenetic invariance has been elevated to the highest religious principle, and humans with even minor mutations are considered "Blasphemies" and the handiwork of the Devil.\nIndividuals not conforming to a strictly defined physical norm are either killed or sterilised and banished to the Fringes, a lawless and untamed area still rife with animal and plant mutations.\nArguments occur over the keeping of a tailless cat or the possession of oversized horses.\nThese are deemed by the government to be legitimate breeds, either preexisting or achieved through conventional breeding.\nThe government\'s position is considered both cynical and heretical by many of the orthodox frontier community.\nThe inland rural settlement of Waknuk is a frontier farming community, populated with hardy and generally pious individuals.\nTen-year-old David Strorm, the son of Waknuk\'s zealous and religious patriarch, has inexplicably vivid dreams of brightly lit cities and horseless carts that are at odds with his pre-industrial experience.\nDespite David\'s rigorous religious training, he befriends Sophie, a girl carefully concealing the fact that she has six toes on each foot.\nWith the nonchalance of childhood, David keeps her secret.\nThe subsequent discovery of Sophie\'s mutation, and her family\'s attempted flight from the feared reprisals, cause David to wonder at the brutal persecution of human "Blasphemies" and the ritual culling of animal and plant "Deviations".\nDavid and a few other children in the district harbour their own invisible mutation: they have telepathic abilities.\nThe group are initially supported, advised and protected by David\'s moderate Uncle Axel, who comes to know about the group through some unguarded chattering when David is still small.\nUncle Axel goes so far in his protection as to kill the husband of one of the group who was abusing his telepath wife, and about to blackmail the rest of the group.\nHowever, eventually some of the group are exposed when David\'s young sister Petra unknowingly exerts a mental force of command for help in her distress when a big cat attacks her horse.\nAs a result of the suspicions, two telepaths Katherine and Sally are captured and tortured for information, whilst David, his half-cousin Rosalind, and Petra flee to the Fringes.\nThey are quickly pursued by a large contingent of men from across several districts who have been offered a generous reward.\nThe intention is to capture and interrogate them, as well as to beat down the surviving people who have been sterilised and banished to the Fringes.\nHowever the posse includes Michael, a fellow telepath who covertly assists their escape.\nUnexpectedly, through the extremely strong telepathic range of Petra, they make contact with a more advanced society in a distant country they believe to be called Sealand.\nWith the help of both Michael and David\'s six toed friend Sophie, who now lives in a Fringes community, David, Rosalind and Petra elude their would-be captors and are rescued by a Sealand expedition sent to discover the source of Petra\'s telepathic transmissions.\nOwing to the limited amount of fuel, they are unable to take the Sealand craft back to Waknuk to collect Rachel.\nMichael remains behind to save her, and promises that they will then find their own way to the others.
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conversations.value: Provide the first four paragraphs for this book.. Start with the sentence 'The Chrysalids
  But now it was the under-Rosalind calling gently, forlornly, all armour thrown aside, the heart naked'.
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conversations.value: The Chrysalids
  But now it was the under-Rosalind calling gently, forlornly, all armour thrown aside, the heart naked.
  Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that they fail clumsily.
  My love flowed out to her, hers back to me. Mine stroked and soothed. Hers caressed. The distance – and the difference – between us dwindled and vanished. We could meet, mingle, and blend. Neither one of us existed any more; for a time there was a single being that was both. There was escape from the solitary cell; a brief symbiosis, sharing all the world...
  No one else knew the hidden Rosalind. Even Michael and the rest caught only glimpses of her. They did not know at what cost the overt Rosalind had been wrought. None of them knew my dear, tender Rosalind longing for escape, gentleness, and love; grown afraid now of what she had built for her own protection; yet more afraid still of facing life without it.
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conversations.value: Provide five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: The two girls studied one another, curiously and warily. Sophie's eyes travelled over Rosalind, in her russet woollen dress with its brown cross appliqué, and rested for a moment on her leather shoes. She looked down at her own soft moccasins, then at her short, tattered skirt. In the course of her self-inspection she discovered new stains that had not been on her bodice half an hour before. Without any embarrassment she pulled it off and began to soak them out in the cold water. To Rosalind she said:
  Rosalind took it, doubtfully. She looked at it, and then down at the cross which had been displayed on every dress she had ever worn. Sophie watched her.
  I explained to her about Sophie and the spider-man far more quickly than it could have been put into words. It did not seem to satisfy her entirely. She and Sophie went on regarding one another steadily in the flickering light.
  Sophie dropped the bodice into the water with a plop. She stood up slowly. She bent towards Rosalind, locks of dark hair dangling down on her naked breasts, her eyes narrowed.
  Rosalind became taut, ready for any movement. I shifted so that I could jump between them if necessary. The tableau held for long seconds. Sophie, uncared for, half naked in her ragged skirt, dangerously poised; Rosalind, in her brown dress with the unpicked left arm of the cross hanging forward, with her bronze hair shining in the candlelight, her fine features upturned, with eyes alert. The crisis passed, and the tension lost pitch. The violence died out of Sophie's eyes, but she did not move. Her mouth twisted a little and she trembled. Harsh and bitter:
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conversations.value: Provide the last four paragraphs.
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conversations.value: I did as she told me. I was aware of the engineer in our machine communicating with someone below, but behind that, as a background to it, there was something new and unknown to me. In terms of sound it could be not unlike the buzzing of a hive of bees; in terms of light, a suffused glow.
  I realized she must be right, and I listened to it for a bit until Petra's excitement got the better of her, and I had to protect myself.
  She turned her head. The under-Rosalind was in her face, smiling, shiny-eyed. The armour was gone. She let me look beneath it. It was like a flower opening...
  Then she was blotted out. We staggered, and put our hands to our heads. Even the floor under our feet jerked a little.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: Even the floor under our feet jerked a little. I was aware of the engineer in our machine communicating with someone below, but behind that, as a background to it, there was something new and unknown to me. In terms of sound it could be not unlike the buzzing of a hive of bees; in terms of light, a suffused glow.
  I realized she must be right, and I listened to it for a bit until Petra's excitement got the better of her, and I had to protect myself.
  She turned her head. The under-Rosalind was in her face, smiling, shiny-eyed. The armour was gone. She let me look beneath it. It was like a flower opening...
  Then she was blotted out. We staggered, and put our hands to our heads.I did as she told me.