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I found it suspicious when I read the part about cutting the rope. Hard to imagine that being cost effective in such poverty.

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Dickens' version has them just "letting go" of the rope at one end, which is much more believable. In real life, rich or poor, people don't cut good rope.

splicing is fun and all, but it's a real time-sink.

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