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{"v":1,"idx":0,"text":"This preface was set before the pagination began, and any tool that starts\nreading at the first page marker will lose it. That has happened, and it cost\na book all but two thousand of its characters.","tokens":44,"page":null,"chapter":null,"role":"body","start_time":null,"end_time":null,"flags":[]}
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{"v":1,"idx":1,"text":"# I. The Setting","tokens":5,"page":1,"chapter":"I. The Setting","role":"body","start_time":null,"end_time":null,"flags":[]}
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{"v":1,"idx":2,"text":"# I. The Setting\n\nThe valley is twelve miles long and never more than two wide. At its northern\nend the river enters through a gorge that no road followed until the last\ncentury; at its southern end it leaves through a marsh that no road follows\nyet. Everything that happened here happened to people who could not easily\nleave, and who knew it.","tokens":76,"page":1,"chapter":"I. The Setting","role":"body","start_time":null,"end_time":null,"flags":[]}
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{"v":1,"idx":3,"text":"The valley is twelve miles long and never more than two wide. At its northern\nend the river enters through a gorge that no road followed until the last\ncentury; at its southern end it leaves through a marsh that no road follows\nyet. Everything that happened here happened to people who could not easily\nleave, and who knew it.\n\nThe population in the first surviving survey is given as four hundred and six\nhouseholds, which at","tokens":90,"page":1,"chapter":"I. The Setting","role":"body","start_time":null,"end_time":null,"flags":[]}
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{"v":1,"idx":4,"text":" the usual multiplier means somewhere near two thousand\npeople. That figure held, within a tenth either way, for three hundred years.","tokens":26,"page":1,"chapter":"I. The Setting","role":"body","start_time":null,"end_time":null,"flags":[]}
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{"v":1,"idx":5,"text":"What changed was not how many people lived in the valley but what they owed\nfor the privilege. The earliest schedule lists eleven separate renders, seven\nof them in kind. The latest lists two, both in coin. Between those two\ndocuments lies the whole of the argument.","tokens":56,"page":2,"chapter":"I. The Setting","role":"body","start_time":null,"end_time":null,"flags":[]}
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{"v":1,"idx":6,"text":"What changed was not how many people lived in the valley but what they owed\nfor the privilege. The earliest schedule lists eleven separate renders, seven\nof them in kind. The latest lists two, both in coin. Between those two\ndocuments lies the whole of the argument.\n\nIt would be convenient to say that the change was gradual. It was not. Two\nthirds of it happens in a single generation, in the middle of the four","tokens":90,"page":2,"chapter":"I. The Setting","role":"body","start_time":null,"end_time":null,"flags":[]}
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{"v":1,"idx":7,"text":"teenth\ncentury, for reasons the documents do not give and which have to be supplied\nfrom outside.","tokens":22,"page":2,"chapter":"I. The Setting","role":"body","start_time":null,"end_time":null,"flags":[]}
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{"v":1,"idx":8,"text":"# II. The Quarrel\n\nThe quarrel began over a mill. It nearly always does. A mill is the one piece\nof capital in a village that everybody must use and only one person can own,\nand the law of the mill is therefore the law of the place in miniature.","tokens":59,"page":3,"chapter":"II. The Quarrel","role":"body","start_time":null,"end_time":null,"flags":[]}
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{"v":1,"idx":9,"text":"The quarrel began over a mill. It nearly always does. A mill is the one piece\nof capital in a village that everybody must use and only one person can own,\nand the law of the mill is therefore the law of the place in miniature.\n\nThe lord's mill stood at the northern end, where the fall was steepest. The\nabbey's mill stood two miles downstream, on land the abbey had been given by","tokens":90,"page":3,"chapter":"II. The Quarrel","role":"body","start_time":null,"end_time":null,"flags":[]}
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{"v":1,"idx":10,"text":" a\nman whose grandson disputed the gift. Both houses claimed the right to compel\nthe valley's tenants to grind at their own stones, and both were prepared to\nbreak the other's.","tokens":39,"page":3,"chapter":"II. The Quarrel","role":"body","start_time":null,"end_time":null,"flags":[]}
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