When you are young you see connections everywhere. Then checking one takes a week, so you drop it. I had six, starting with a poem that glows with a power level in a Chinese drama, and had never put them on one table. Checking costs almost nothing now, so I did. The machine checked every one. Which ones matter is still a person's job.
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A human hunch. Cheap checking.
The move looked worthless. So no master had ever tried it.
One strange hunch, checked cheaply, and the whole map it opened.
This is what it looks like when you keep the connections. More than a hundred on one map: poems, games, stories, a deck of cards. Every line is marked proven or only a resemblance, and the ones that died when I checked are on the page too. Some of it holds. Some may not.