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  "title": "An inventory transformed into a cosmic limit",
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      "exact": "there were two guns and one axe",
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      "prefix": "one sun, was like the fact that ",
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  "body_markdown": "The numbers correspond to selected items in Crusoe's first raft cargo. In the inspected Project Gutenberg text of Defoe's *Robinson Crusoe* (first published 1719), chapter IV records two fowling pieces and, shortly afterwards, an axe among other tools. Chesterton selects real details for his parallel with two sexes and one sun; this is neither the entire first cargo nor Crusoe's final inventory. The digital witness reproduces a Seeley, Service illustrated edition; it does not establish what boyhood edition Chesterton read.\n\nDefoe also gives the analogy a useful limit. Crusoe subsequently cultivates crops and increases his goats: his available resources can grow. Chesterton transfers the feeling of a finite salvaged stock to the whole order of existence. The claim that nothing can be added is therefore part of his cosmic fancy, rather than a full account of the novel's economy. What he preserves from Defoe is the sharpened value of ordinary equipment when survival depends on it.",
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      "title": "Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Project Gutenberg 521",
      "locator": "Title page (Seeley, Service; H. M. Brock illustrations); chapter IV, ‘My next care was for some ammunition and arms’ and ‘I had three encouragements’; chapter XVII, ‘increase my little flock’",
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      "url": "https://university-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2019/04/23/300-years-of-the-life-and-strange-surprizing-adventures-of-robinson-crusoe/",
      "title": "University of St Andrews, 300 years of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe",
      "locator": "Opening paragraph: first publication 25 April 1719",
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    "No claim is made that every abridged or juvenile Crusoe edition has the same inventory."
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        "approach": "Quotations and attributions",
        "question": "Where does Milton call the stars sapphires, and what does the Eden setting contribute?"
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        "approach": "Assumed knowledge and unusual language",
        "question": "Are two guns and one axe an exact Crusoe inventory, and how does the salvage analogy reshape Defoe?"
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