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Chapter 2 · Scene and Sequel
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- Front Matter and Contents
- Introduction — The Two Halves of Narrative Motion
- Definitions and Boundaries
- Why Causality Carries the Weight
- The Six Beats — and a Proposed Seventh
- The Principle of Compression
- Interruption, Deferral, and the Shapes of the Chain
- Diagnostic Method — the ten tests
- Failure Patterns
- Worked Analyses
- Scene and Sequel Across Forms
- Revision Checklist
- Studio Work
- Glossary
- Sources Cited
- Further Reading
- Coda — What the Engine Cannot Tell You