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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled The Way of the World about Cult, Classic, Reborn with the genre: Travel, Travel Writing.
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conversations.value: A Cult Classic, "The Way of the World" is one of the most beguiling travel books ever written. Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, it tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-enhancing journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 1950s. On one level it is a candid description of a road journey, on another a meditation on travel as a journey towards the self, all written by a sage with a golden pen and a wide infectious smile. It is published here for the first time in English with the Vernet drawings which are such a dynamic part of its whole.
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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Dramas & Plays?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'The Way of the World'
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book titled The Way of the World about Cult, Classic, Reborn with the genre: Travel, Travel Writing.
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conversations.value: The Way of the World (short story): Six boys live quietly together.\nTheir main play is creating their "town": one boy is mayor, another a grocer, and so on.\nOne day a girl, Mary Eliza Jenkins, makes friends with the mayor and the other "men", until they let her become a full citizen and open a new restaurant.\nIt is a success until a boy from Chicago comes along and she devotes all her time to him.\nWhen the others tell her he must go, she decides to start her own town with him nearby.\nAfter her departure, no one is willing to put in any work at the game any more.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: \nAfter her departure, no one is willing to put in any work at the game any more.\nTheir main play is creating their "town": one boy is mayor, another a grocer, and so on.\nOne day a girl, Mary Eliza Jenkins, makes friends with the mayor and the other "men", until they let her become a full citizen and open a new restaurant.\nIt is a success until a boy from Chicago comes along and she devotes all her time to him.\nWhen the others tell her he must go, she decides to start her own town with him nearby.The Way of the World (short story): Six boys live quietly together.
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conversations.value: The Way of the World: Act 1 is set in a chocolate house where Mirabell and Fainall have just finished playing cards.\nA footman comes and tells Mirabell that Waitwell (Mirabell\'s male servant) and Foible (Lady Wishfort\'s female servant) were married that morning.\nMirabell tells Fainall about his love of Millamant and is encouraged to marry her.\nWitwoud and Petulant appear and Mirabell is informed that should Lady Wishfort marry, he will lose £6000 of Millamant\'s inheritanceHe will only get this money if he can make Lady Wishfort consent to his and Millamant\'s marriage.\nAct 2 is set in st James\' Park.\nmrs Fainall and mrs Marwood are discussing their hatred of men.\nFainall appears and accuses mrs Marwood (with whom he is having an affair) of loving Mirabell (which she does).\nMeanwhile, mrs Fainall (Mirabell\'s former lover) tells Mirabell that she hates her husband, and they begin to plot to deceive Lady Wishfort into giving her consent to the marriage.\nMillamant appears in the park and, angry about the previous night (when Mirabell was confronted by Lady Wishfort), she tells Mirabell of her displeasure in his plan, which she only has a vague idea about.\nAfter she leaves, the newly wed servants appear and Mirabell reminds them of their roles in the plan.\nActs 3, 4 and 5 are all set in the home of Lady Wishfort.\nWe are introduced to Lady Wishfort who is encouraged by Foible to marry the supposed Sir Rowland – Mirabell\'s supposed uncle – so that Mirabell will lose his inheritance.\nSir Rowland is, however, Waitwell in disguise, and the plan is to entangle Lady Wishfort in a marriage which cannot go ahead, because it would be bigamy, not to mention a social disgrace (Waitwell is only a serving man, Lady Wishfort an aristocrat).\nMirabell will offer to help her out of the embarrassing situation if she consents to his marriage.\nLater, mrs Fainall discusses this plan with Foible, but this is overheard by mrs Marwood.\nShe later tells the plan to Fainall, who decides that he will take his wife\'s money and go away with mrs Marwood.\nMirabell and Millamant, equally strong-willed, discuss in detail the conditions under which they would accept each other in marriage (otherwise known as the "proviso scene"), showing the depth of their feeling for each other.\nMirabell finally proposes to Millamant and, with mrs Fainall\'s encouragement (almost consent, as Millamant knows of their previous relations), Millamant accepts.\nMirabell leaves as Lady Wishfort arrives, and she lets it be known that she wants Millamant to marry her nephew, Sir Wilfull Witwoud, who has just arrived from the countryside.\nLady Wishfort later gets a letter telling her about the Sir Rowland plot.\nSir Rowland takes the letter and accuses Mirabell of trying to sabotage their wedding.\nLady Wishfort agrees to let Sir Rowland bring a marriage contract that night.\nBy Act 5, Lady Wishfort has found out the plot, and Fainall has had Waitwell arrested.\nmrs Fainall tells Foible that her previous affair with Mirabell is now public knowledge.\nLady Wishfort appears with mrs Marwood, whom she thanks for unveiling the plot.\nFainall then appears and uses the information of mrs Fainall\'s previous affair with Mirabell and Millamant\'s contract to marry him to blackmail Lady Wishfort, telling that she should never marry and that she is to transfer her fortune to him.\nLady Wishfort offers Mirabell her consent to the marriage if he can save her fortune and honour.\nMirabell calls on Waitwell who brings a contract from the time before the marriage of the Fainalls in which mrs Fainall gives all her property to Mirabell.\nThis neutralises the blackmail attempts, after which Mirabell restores mrs Fainall\'s property to her possession and then is free to marry Millamant with the full £6000 inheritance.
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conversations.value: \nThis neutralises the blackmail attempts, after which Mirabell restores mrs Fainall\'s property to her possession and then is free to marry Millamant with the full £6000 inheritance..\nMirabell calls on Waitwell who brings a contract from the time before the marriage of the Fainalls in which mrs Fainall gives all her property to Mirabell.\nLady Wishfort offers Mirabell her consent to the marriage if he can save her fortune and honour.\nFainall then appears and uses the information of mrs Fainall\'s previous affair with Mirabell and Millamant\'s contract to marry him to blackmail Lady Wishfort, telling that she should never marry and that she is to transfer her fortune to him.\nLady Wishfort appears with mrs Marwood, whom she thanks for unveiling the plot.\nmrs Fainall tells Foible that her previous affair with Mirabell is now public knowledge.\nBy Act 5, Lady Wishfort has found out the plot, and Fainall has had Waitwell arrested.\nLady Wishfort agrees to let Sir Rowland bring a marriage contract that night.\nSir Rowland takes the letter and accuses Mirabell of trying to sabotage their wedding.\nLady Wishfort later gets a letter telling her about the Sir Rowland plot.\nMirabell leaves as Lady Wishfort arrives, and she lets it be known that she wants Millamant to marry her nephew, Sir Wilfull Witwoud, who has just arrived from the countryside.\nMirabell finally proposes to Millamant and, with mrs Fainall\'s encouragement (almost consent, as Millamant knows of their previous relations), Millamant accepts.\nMirabell and Millamant, equally strong-willed, discuss in detail the conditions under which they would accept each other in marriage (otherwise known as the "proviso scene"), showing the depth of their feeling for each other.\nShe later tells the plan to Fainall, who decides that he will take his wife\'s money and go away with mrs Marwood.\nLater, mrs Fainall discusses this plan with Foible, but this is overheard by mrs Marwood.\nMirabell will offer to help her out of the embarrassing situation if she consents to his marriage.\nSir Rowland is, however, Waitwell in disguise, and the plan is to entangle Lady Wishfort in a marriage which cannot go ahead, because it would be bigamy, not to mention a social disgrace (Waitwell is only a serving man, Lady Wishfort an aristocrat).\nWe are introduced to Lady Wishfort who is encouraged by Foible to marry the supposed Sir Rowland – Mirabell\'s supposed uncle – so that Mirabell will lose his inheritance.\nActs 3, 4 and 5 are all set in the home of Lady Wishfort.\nAfter she leaves, the newly wed servants appear and Mirabell reminds them of their roles in the plan.\nMillamant appears in the park and, angry about the previous night (when Mirabell was confronted by Lady Wishfort), she tells Mirabell of her displeasure in his plan, which she only has a vague idea about.\nMeanwhile, mrs Fainall (Mirabell\'s former lover) tells Mirabell that she hates her husband, and they begin to plot to deceive Lady Wishfort into giving her consent to the marriage.\nFainall appears and accuses mrs Marwood (with whom he is having an affair) of loving Mirabell (which she does).\nmrs Fainall and mrs Marwood are discussing their hatred of men.\nAct 2 is set in st James\' Park.\nWitwoud and Petulant appear and Mirabell is informed that should Lady Wishfort marry, he will lose £6000 of Millamant\'s inheritanceHe will only get this money if he can make Lady Wishfort consent to his and Millamant\'s marriage.\nMirabell tells Fainall about his love of Millamant and is encouraged to marry her.\nA footman comes and tells Mirabell that Waitwell (Mirabell\'s male servant) and Foible (Lady Wishfort\'s female servant) were married that morning.The Way of the World: Act 1 is set in a chocolate house where Mirabell and Fainall have just finished playing cards
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conversations.value: Provide the first three paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: The Way of the World
  Those who look down on subordinates and grab for superiority get attacked. Those whose reputation isn't upheld by reality get worn out. Those who spare themselves while putting the onus on others are undisciplined. Those who are generous with themselves while stingy to others will be abandoned. Those who throw away successes by excesses will lose. Those who are ostracized by their subordinates will sink.
  Those who are employing the incompetent will be estranged. Those who give out rewards with an appearance of stinginess will be frustrated. Those who accept a lot but give little will be resented. Those who reject people they've already welcomed will be opposed. Those who give little but expect a lot will not be recompensed. Those who when elevated forget the lowly won't last long. Those who abandon new works because of old grudges will be unfortunate.
  Those who employ people improperly are in danger. Those who employ people by force will not prosper. Those who select offices for individuals are out of order. Those who lose their strengths will be weak. Those who determine policy with the inhumane are in peril. Those whose secret plans are leaked outside will fail.
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conversations.value: One's form, one's abode, one's consciousness, and one's predilections all correspond to the five elements. But the proportions of the five elements vary; that is why myriad things are so many as to fill sky and earth, yet still are unending.
  Reducing the five phenomena to the five elements, and making the five animals from the five elements, can everything be said? It's like auguring from turtle shells, or reckoning from yarrow sticks—with total truthfulness there is spontaneous accord. If the truth of the correspondences of the five elements isn't accurate, then you'll never augur or calculate correctly. Sages make temporary use of things to get around in the world; the five elements have to apply.
  Five all contain the lower soul. The lower soul contains consciousness, the eyes contain vitality, the body contains spirit. What sees them is the lower soul; the ears, eyes, mouth, nose, and mind are like this.
  The creative agent in the subject is love, which makes vitality, which constitutes the father-root of birth of the other. Contemplation is the mother-root of the birth of the other. Although love and contemplation are different, they're both based on consciousness; their creation of life is essentially always there.
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conversations.value: But the proportions of the five elements vary; that is why myriad things are so many as to fill sky and earth, yet still are unending.
  Reducing the five phenomena to the five elements, and making the five animals from the five elements, can everything be said? It's like auguring from turtle shells, or reckoning from yarrow sticks—with total truthfulness there is spontaneous accord. If the truth of the correspondences of the five elements isn't accurate, then you'll never augur or calculate correctly. Sages make temporary use of things to get around in the world; the five elements have to apply.
  Five all contain the lower soul. The lower soul contains consciousness, the eyes contain vitality, the body contains spirit. What sees them is the lower soul; the ears, eyes, mouth, nose, and mind are like this.
  The creative agent in the subject is love, which makes vitality, which constitutes the father-root of birth of the other. Contemplation is the mother-root of the birth of the other. Although love and contemplation are different, they're both based on consciousness; their creation of life is essentially always there.
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conversations.value: Provide the last paragraph.
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conversations.value: Talking about the Way is like talking about dreams: someone talking about a dream says there were such and such gold and jade, such and such utensils and dishes, such and such birds and beasts; the speaker can speak of these things but cannot take them and hand them over, while the listener can hear of them but cannot actually get them. Only good listeners do not get fixated and do not argue. Make your Way round, your virtue straight, your conduct balanced, and your work concentrated.