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Dan Moore

A working man born in a canefield who walks through town singing to houses that cannot hear him, carrying a healing he cannot deliver.

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Also known as old Dan, Dan, Mr. Moore, Mr. Daniel Moore

First appearance: part i karintha

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Dan arrives at Muriel's door with raw knuckles and a vision of himself as someone sent to heal a sick world, but the bolted, metallic house and Mrs. Pribby's gimlet eyes tell him what the town thinks of a black man who…

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MUMurielMPMrs. PribbyPLProfessor LaymanBEBernyHAHanbyDMDan Moore

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  • Romantic
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  • Other

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  • Fragments of community and tragedy
  • Violence and artistic reflection

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SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
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  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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