{"id":"01KG8AJQ43GFDBB1VYPJ324MRA","cid":"bafkreig55ynpfw5lqh22paqaqw2i3ueh7vhtzuc7vhiu2yyqnphm4s7k5i","type":"segment","properties":{"description":"# Narrow escapes and specific incidents\n## Overview\nThis is a segment extracted from the short story \"[I and My Chimney](arke:01KG8AJ72QDX8N8STJ3550X2NW),\" spanning lines 1178-1194 of the source text file, \"[i_and_my_chimney.txt](arke:01KG89J1H4TA19251AXAPE3ZWC).\" It recounts specific instances where the narrator and his chimney narrowly avoided threats.\n\n## Context\nThe segment is part of a larger narrative contained within the \"[Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW)\" collection. Preceding this segment is \"[Escalation of wife's campaign and various threats](arke:01KG8AJQ42EKAER114S0STE18W),\" which details the narrator's wife's attempts to remove the chimney. The subsequent segment, \"[Narrator's resolve and current situation](arke:01KG8AJQ4685KJT638D8MXGHQA),\" describes the narrator's unwavering commitment to protecting his chimney and his self-imposed isolation.\n\n## Contents\nThe segment describes two near-disasters: the narrator discovering architectural plans to remove the chimney and an encounter with an architectural reformer, and an incident where brickbats nearly hit the narrator, thrown by men seemingly hired to attack the chimney. The narrator reflects on these events, emphasizing the close calls he and his chimney have experienced.\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:59.312Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"Narrow escapes and specific incidents","end_line":1194,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:36.358Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Narrow escapes and specific incidents","source_file":"01KG89J1H4TA19251AXAPE3ZWC","start_line":1178,"text":"What narrow escapes have been ours! Once I found in a drawer a whole\r\nportfolio of plans and estimates. Another time, upon returning after a\r\nday’s absence, I discovered my wife standing before the chimney in\r\nearnest conversation with a person whom I at once recognized as a\r\nmeddlesome architectural reformer, who, because he had no gift for\r\nputting up anything, was ever intent upon pulling them down; in various\r\nparts of the country having prevailed upon half-witted old folks to\r\ndestroy their old-fashioned houses, particularly the chimneys.\r\n\r\nBut worst of all was, that time I unexpectedly returned at early\r\nmorning from a visit to the city, and upon approaching the house,\r\nnarrowly escaped three brickbats which fell, from high aloft, at my\r\nfeet. Glancing up, what was my horror to see three savages, in blue\r\njean overalls, in the very act of commencing the long-threatened\r\nattack. Aye, indeed, thinking of those three brickbats, I and my\r\nchimney have had narrow escapes.\r\n\r","title":"Narrow escapes and specific incidents"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJ72QDX8N8STJ3550X2NW","peer_type":"short_story","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1H4TA19251AXAPE3ZWC","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AJQ42EKAER114S0STE18W","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AJQ4685KJT638D8MXGHQA","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:40.675Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:47:59.520Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}