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      "detail": "city A"
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      "label": "Telephone Line",
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      "y": 287,
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      "from": "n1",
      "to": "n2",
      "label": "speaks into"
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      "from": "n2",
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  "summary": "A voice is converted to electrical signal, travels wire, and is converted back — distance collapses.",
  "mechanism": "voice-to-signal-distance-collapse",
  "fig": "FIG. / THE VOICE THAT CROSSED THE DISTANCE WITHOUT THE BODY",
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    "label": "Handset A",
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