{"id":"01KG8AMR90DCWKTRZKW35W1086","cid":"bafkreieq2bd2asll2cuz5otqnwzbzneihjrdki2cggo7r2isezkn5cml54","type":"section","properties":{"description":"# This house was a much smaller one than the other\n\n## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)\n\nThis is a section of text extracted from the file [pierre.txt](arke:01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A), a plain text file containing a work from the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. The section, labeled \"This house was a much smaller one than the other,\" begins on line 5441 and ends on line 5467 of the source file. It was extracted on January 30, 2026, by the structure-extraction-lambda process.\n\n## Context - Background and provenance from related entities\n\nThis section is part of a larger section labeled \"IV.\" ([arke:01KG8AKSYXM1BVG8S0ESCFKM6F]), which is contained within the text file [pierre.txt](arke:01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A). The text file is part of the \"Melville Complete Works\" collection. The previous section is titled \"It came to pass, at last, that there was a contention about me in the house\" ([arke:01KG8AMR90ETF797NH56MEWZEV]).\n\n## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details\n\nThe section describes a house that is smaller than another, and the narrator's experience within it. The narrator reflects on the presence of a beautiful infant, which evokes feelings of joy, humanness, and sadness. The narrator credits the infant with bringing them to their own mind, making them aware of beauty and the \"Sadness.\" The narrator expresses a desire to remain in that state, and reflects on the \"bewilderingness\" of the past.\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:50:14.671Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"This house was a much smaller one than the other","end_line":5467,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:47.195Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"This house was a much smaller one than the other","source_file":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","start_line":5441,"text":"\"This house was a much smaller one than the other, and seemed sweetly\r\nquiet to me after that. There was a beautiful infant in it; and this\r\nbeautiful infant always archly and innocently smiling on me, and\r\nstrangely beckoning me to come and play with it, and be glad with it;\r\nand be thoughtless, and be glad and gleeful with it; this beautiful\r\ninfant first brought me to my own mind, as it were; first made me\r\nsensible that I was something different from stones, trees, cats; first\r\nundid in me the fancy that all people were as stones, trees, cats; first\r\nfilled me with the sweet idea of humanness; first made me aware of the\r\ninfinite mercifulness, and tenderness, and beautifulness of humanness;\r\nand this beautiful infant first filled me with the dim thought of\r\nBeauty; and equally, and at the same time, with the feeling of the\r\nSadness; of the immortalness and universalness of the Sadness. I now\r\nfeel that I should soon have gone,---- stop me now; do not let me go\r\nthat way. I owe all things to that beautiful infant. Oh, how I envied\r\nit, lying in its happy mother's breast, and drawing life and gladness,\r\nand all its perpetual smilingness from that white and smiling breast.\r\nThat infant saved me; but still gave me vague desirings. Now I first\r\nbegan to reflect in my mind; to endeavor after the recalling past\r\nthings; but try as I would, little could I recall, but the\r\nbewilderingness;--and the stupor, and the torpor, and the blackness, and\r\nthe dimness, and the vacant whirlingness of the bewilderingness. Let me\r\nbe still again.\"\r\n\r\nAnd the stepping on the floor above,--it then resumed.\r\n\r\n\r","title":"This house was a much smaller one than the other"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AKSYXM1BVG8S0ESCFKM6F","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AMR90ETF797NH56MEWZEV","peer_type":"section","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:47.392Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:50:14.842Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}