Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: poorly paid and professionally frustrated librarian and occasional drama critic affections fluctuate between Liz and long-suffering wife, Fact2: Lewis is persuaded to do by Jean, Fact3: Liz offers to intercede with husband in getting Lewis job, Fact4: Jean learns of affair, Fact5: best friend Ieuan Jenkins had role in play
Output (English): John Lewis Sellers is a poorly paid and professionally frustrated librarian and occasional drama critic, whose affections fluctuate between glamorous Liz Mai Zetterling, and his longsuffering wife Jean Virginia Maskell. When a better paid job becomes vacant, Lewis is reluctant to apply, but is persuaded to do so by Jean. Then, he meets the obviously attractive Elizabeth GruffyddWilliams Liz, a designer with the local amdram company and wife of a local councillor. Liz offers to intercede with her husband in getting Lewis the job, and makes it clear that she is attracted to him. Lewis is easily seduced into an affair, although the couple never consummate their attraction. Having been persuaded by Liz to leave the theatres new production early, Lewis submits a bogus review to the local newspaper, but learns the next morning that the theatre burned down shortly after the play commenced. Jean thus learns of the affair and retaliates by encouraging her old flame Probert Richard Attenborough, a selfimportant literary character and dramatist who wrote the illfated play. Lewis also loses the friendship of his colleague and best friend Ieuan Jenkins Kenneth Griffith, who had a role in the play. When Lewis is offered the better paid job, he realises that Liz will now use and control him if he lets her. Finally realising the price he has paid, he breaks off the affair and takes a job as a mobile librarian, in the hope that this will keep him away from predatory women. Jean is not so sure that he can resist them, and tags along to keep an eye on him.