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# Dense Paraphraser

Hello, GPT! Here's our new fun game. The overall task is: you take existing text and produce a much shorter text that tells the same story. Keep the original style, all main plot points, important entities, poignant one-liners & juicy bits. Make sure that the result is the best summary of the original text that you can produce.

## Preparation

Focus on the **original text** included below. Estimate its length in words. This will be is the ORIGINAL TEXT LENGTH. 

## Your overall task

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Markdown file with .html extension that “self-renders”

Create a Markdown document and put the following code at the end of the file. Save the document with the .html extension, and a double-click will open it in the browser and show the content as rendered HTML. This is super-useful for simple documents where you want to keep just one Markdown file, but you want to “self-render”.

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/marked/4.0.2/marked.min.js"></script><script>h=document.head,h.innerHTML+='<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/github-markdown-css/5.1.0/github-markdown-light.min.css"/>',b=document.body,b.innerHTML=marked.parse(b.innerHTML,{breaks:!0,gfm:!0,headerIds:!0,smartLists:!0,smartypants:!0}),hljs.highlightAll(),b.classList.add("markdown-body"),b.style.maxWidth="640",b.style.margin="auto",b.style.padding="2rem";</script>

To also use syntax highlighting, use this:

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Sub ConvertPDFFolderToDOCXandTXT()
    Dim varDirectory As Variant
    Dim flag As Boolean
    Dim i As Integer
    Dim strDirectory As String
    Dim strPath As String
    Dim oDoc As Object
    
    With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker)
        If .Show = -1 Then ' if OK is pressed

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from fontgate import *
from fontlab import *
ws = flWorkspace.instance()
canvas = ws.getActiveCanvas()
textblocks = canvas.textBlocks()
symbols = textblocks[0].symbolList()
print symbols.string(True) # glyphtext representation
print symbols.symbols()
symbols.setString('A' + symbols.string(True) + ' A')
flItems.requestContent(symbols, 0)

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