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  "title": "Endymion's moon and Jupiter's plural moons",
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      "exact": "To be allowed, like Endymion, to make love to the moon",
      "start": 875,
      "end": 929,
      "prefix": "d and unexpected as sex itself. ",
      "suffix": " and then to complain that Jupit",
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  "body_markdown": "Endymion is the beautiful mortal loved by the Moon. In the account transmitted under Apollodorus's name, Zeus grants him a choice and he chooses an everlasting, ageless sleep (*Library* 1.7.5; inspected English witness: J. G. Frazer's 1921 translation). [Apollodorus, *Library*, Book I](https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html). Chesterton turns that supernatural love story into an image for the strangeness of ordinary sexual love. His next clause switches from the personified Moon to the astronomical moons of Jupiter, making the planet into a polygamous household. The joke depends on that change of register: the existence of love should, in his argument, overwhelm resentment at having only one partner. The myth identifies the imaginative example; it does not itself establish Chesterton's case for monogamy.",
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      "url": "https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html",
      "title": "Apollodorus, The Library, Book I, translated by J. G. Frazer (1921), Theoi transcription",
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    "The ancient work has no modern first-publication date; 1921 identifies the inspected translation, not the origin of the myth.",
    "The relevant section was accessible in the search index, but direct page retrieval returned HTTP 403. No claim is made that Chesterton used this particular ancient account or translation."
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        "approach": "Quotations and attributions",
        "question": "Can the sunset saying attributed to Wilde be located, and how does Wilde's identifiable discussion of sunsets differ from Chesterton's use?"
      },
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        "approach": "Assumed knowledge and unusual language",
        "question": "What does the Endymion allusion contribute to the comparison between sexual wonder and sexual restriction?"
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