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Harold's watch, fed up with him, stops working while he is waiting for the bus. Harold resets his watch to a time given by a bystander. At this point, he hears the narrator saying that this seemingly innocuous act would lead to his imminent death.
Anxious at this ominious narration, Harold sees a [[psychiatrist]] who attributes the voice to [[schizophrenia]]. However, after Harold pleads that schizophrenia is not the case, the psychiatrist recommends he see a literary expert. Harold then visits Jules Hilbert ([[Dustin Hoffman]]), a professor at a local university (actually the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]]), for advice on how to change his apparent destiny. Hilbert interviews Harold and decides he must first properly ascertain the genre of his story. He summates that ultimately, to understand literature, one must generally choose between two faces of the human story: comedy or tragedy.
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