so why do you have the second chapter of this book retell the same story that the first chapter of the book told?

为什么一本书的第二章,要重复一遍第一章说过的故事？

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At least people thought that in the second version of each story we considered.

至少在每个故事的第二种情况中，是这样认为的。

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It's okay to stick around for a while, but if the high point of the story occurs in chapter 2 and then there are another 67 chapters after that, you think, this was not a well-constructed novel.

有一段下跌并没有关系，但是如果故事高潮在第二章出现2,后面还有67章，你会觉得这部小说结构不好。

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