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'''Novel'''
'''Novel'''


A computer programmer discovers time travel, with disastrous results.
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== I Ching ==
== Summary ==


The present is embodied in Hexagram 62 - Hsiao Kuo (Preponderance of the Small): In these circumstances which it implies, there will be progress and attainment, but it will be advantageous to be firm and correct. Action may be taken in small affairs, but not in great affairs. Like the notes that come down from a bird on the wing, to descend is better than to ascend. There will, in this way, be great good fortune.
== Act One ==


* The fourth line, undivided, shows its subject falling into no error, but meeting the exigency of his situation, without exceeding in his natural course. If he go forward, there will be peril, and he must be cautious. There is no occasion to be using firmness perpetually.
The first disaster corresponds to the end of Act 1.
* The fifth line, divided, suggests dense clouds, but no rain, coming from our borders in the west. It also shows the prince shooting his arrow, and taking the bird in a cave.


The situation is shifting, but neither Yin (the passive feminine force) nor Yang (the active masculine force) is gaining ground.
First disaster may be caused by external circumstances.


The future is embodied in Hexagram 39 - Chien (Obstruction): Advantage will be found in the southwest, and the contrary in the northeast. It will be advantageous to meet with the great man. With firmness and correctness, there will be good fortune.
== Act Two ==


== Chapter One ==
Second disaster from protagonist's attempts to fix things.


== Chapter Two ==
The second disaster is the mid-point of Act 2.


== Chapter Three ==
The third disaster, also the protagonist's attempts to fix things, is the end of Act 2.


== Chapter Four ==
== Act Three ==


== Chapter Five ==
The third forces Act 3 which wraps things up.
 
== Chapter Six ==
 
== Chapter Seven ==
 
== Chapter Eight ==
 
== Chapter Nine ==

Latest revision as of 19:07, 3 November 2018

Novel

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Summary

Act One

The first disaster corresponds to the end of Act 1.

First disaster may be caused by external circumstances.

Act Two

Second disaster from protagonist's attempts to fix things.

The second disaster is the mid-point of Act 2.

The third disaster, also the protagonist's attempts to fix things, is the end of Act 2.

Act Three

The third forces Act 3 which wraps things up.