The constellation
J230 Choice: real and apparent values
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
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● attested
The same sky, in words
beneath it
filed near
- Physical pain preferred to poverty · J229.14 entry
- God's punishment: the sinner may have twelve years of famine or twelve hours of heavy rainfall · J229.13 entry
- Prisoners given choice between emasculation and blinding · J229.12 entry
- Take money instead of revenge. Fool advises uncle, in letter which he did not send, to take money from wife's paramour instead of revenge · J229.11 entry
- Wisdom chosen above all else · J231 entry
- Solomon, permitted by God to make any request, asks wisdom. Granted wisdom and wealth · J231.1 entry
- Choice between love and wisdom · J231.2 entry
- Health chosen as the most precious thing · J232 entry