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The Ten-foot Chain; or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? A Unique Symposium

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Four writers answer a single hypothetical by contributing short stories about a man and a woman shackled together by a ten-foot chain for three days and nights. Each piece treats the experiment differently: one retells a Jataka-like fable that entwines idealized longing and tragic consequence, another emphasizes temperament and environment in shaping emotional reactions, a third adopts regional humor and dialect to highlight social pressures and comic friction, and the remaining tale probes romantic endurance and moral choices under imposed physical constraint.

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Spelling, punctuation and grammar have been retained except as follows:

Page   18 bear of leaves changed to
bare of leaves
Page   36 enternal laws of logic changed to
eternal laws of logic
Page   47 what has love to changed to
what has love to do
Page   56 completely locked the hall changed to
completely blocked the hall
Page   76 borne a thousand times changed to
born a thousand times
Page   78 but the were frozen changed to
but they were frozen
Page   85 Flourney studied a moment changed to
Flournoy studied a moment
Page   86 "No!" Flourney snapped changed to
"No!" Flournoy snapped
Page   111 enlightened her igorance changed to
enlightened her ignorance
Page   116 I ain't no bayou changed to
"I ain't no bayou
Page   145 Its my old friend changed to
It's my old friend
Page   158 No, matter changed to
No matter