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Horatio

A character used to illustrate the folly of not learning a useful trade.

minor

First appearance: learn something useful

Horatio shows up with force in Avoid Debt. The page is where that presence becomes real.

A lazy apprentice boy who is so slow that his employer jokes he must have met a snail rather than overtaken one.
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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