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Thank you, your story about the guest speaker in 1970 and Seurat is mind-expanding. One of my thoughts is as a writer to pay full attention to the right details, not too many, and not too few: the proper proportion, with which a vast variety of readers can engage so that the story will live and grow and ask its necessary questions within the minds of most of them.

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I agree that paying attention to everything (without distinction) would be a mistake. A good part of my career was devoted to researching, writing, and producing scrupulously realistic re-enactments of actual events in the workplace as the basis for assorted training programs. While my films were faithful er-enactments of things that actually happened, they were NOT (and could not be) mere recordings of the actual events. Instead, I aimed to make them intelligent paraphrases of the original designed to throw salient elements of drama and key applications of effective interpersonal skill тАФ or opportunities for such applications тАФ into relief.

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