story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3

Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes, keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy, wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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+# Notes: Keefe stories 0-7 (chunks 0-406, 407 records)
+
+I wrote these by reading every scene myself. No inference was used and I did no grouping. Below
+are the recurring situations I noticed, as input for the grouping pass. The chunk ids are examples,
+not complete lists.
+
+## Recurring situations
+
+1. **Pay talks with the boss: he demands a big figure and signs for far less.** He vows to hold out
+   for three thousand and signs for fifteen hundred (2-4). He vows five thousand and signs for
+   twenty-eight hundred (61, 63). He tries to reopen a signed deal (91-93). He "wins" a three-year
+   deal that is really his old pay (110-113). He expects a raise despite a fixed contract (150).
+2. **Threatening to defect to a rival outfit, and the threat collapsing.** He tries to jump and is
+   refused because he is already signed (92-95). He says the boss will regret it (95, 108). He
+   announces a jump on a hoax offer, then is told there never was an offer (375-380, 391-393,
+   402-404).
+3. **Being sent down, recalled, or kept in the lesser group.** He is sold to the minors (30, 100).
+   He is sent down and wins his way back (31-38). He is kept with the second squad against his
+   wishes (115-118, 122). The boss reveals exactly why he was sent away (111).
+4. **The boss's mockery that he reads as praise.** Examples: 13-14, 16-17, 37, 128, 192-193, 223,
+   318, 339, 404. It is the commonest single beat.
+5. **Blaming colleagues, the judge, his body or the weather for every failure.** Examples: 13, 16,
+   25-29, 46, 53, 56, 144, 150, 201, 240, 265-266, 340, 383-386.
+6. **A mentor who takes the naive newcomer in hand.** Diet, curfew and chaperoning in the city
+   (6, 11, 48-50, 121, 124). Smoothing over a family crisis so he can work (173).
+7. **Defying or sassing the boss, then being fined, suspended or overruled.** Examples: 24, 35, 45,
+   129, 135, 171.
+8. **A personal grudge wrecking the work.** He deliberately hits the rival who married his old flame
+   and throws the game away (133-134). He takes revenge mid-task (139, 295).
+9. **Courtship on the rebound, and hasty marriage.** He is steered into a proposal (34). He is
+   jilted and the woman keeps his money (57). He proposes to the next woman at once (57, 62). He is
+   torn between two women (44, 50, 54).
+10. **Money draining away in married life.** A wife and her relatives spend (64-66, 74-75, 77,
+    80-82, 84). He takes an expensive home he swore he would never take (71-72). He is stuck with a
+    lease (73, 77, 79). He is paying for two homes (73).
+11. **Living with in-laws: sponging accusations both ways.** Examples: 86, 96, 160-161, 180. They
+    come to blows (83).
+12. **Borrowing from the friend back home, and slow repayment.** Examples: 98, 108-109, 125, 140.
+    He gives the friend little in return (183, 332).
+13. **The wife leaves, and the reconciliation.** She leaves when he cannot support her (97,
+    101-102). She comes back with news of a baby (141). A deception is discovered and forgiven
+    (176-182). She goes away without waiting for him (398-400).
+14. **The doting, clueless new father.** Examples: 143, 145-147, 152, 159, 164-166. There is
+    worry about the child while he is away (155-157, 231-232). He is torn between work and a child
+    he thinks is neglected (169-172).
+15. **Family duty against a tempting opportunity away from home.** Examples: 186, 189, 193,
+    197, 202-203, 205, 211.
+16. **The gullible traveller fed tall tales by jokers.** This is the spine of story 6. Examples:
+    sharks (207-208, 230), the date line (224), the Bight bug (307-315), the "Thomas Hawks"
+    (316-320, 325-327), the Equator bump and rope (323, 328), fake languages (238, 251, 321), rat
+    rabies (263).
+17. **Being made the butt of a public prank.** His own shirt is given back as a present (275-279).
+    He is set up to recite poems and to perform in public (225-228, 346). He bows to applause meant
+    for someone else (388). The prankster later wins him back with an invented excuse (303-304).
+18. **Swindled, and sure he got a bargain.** A staged street sale of a charm (350-357). A "proof"
+    test that it is genuine (361-363). A fake cable offer (377-379). A boastful wager on an
+    unfamiliar local game (296-301).
+19. **Stinginess.** Tips (237, 239, 256), gifts (214, 247, 275, 332), telegrams (157, 330),
+    shopping (249, 333). He insists he is careful, not cheap (333).
+20. **Performing for dignitaries and missing the joke.** Examples: 196, 226-228, 245, 258-259,
+    305, 331, 342.
+
+## Things the grouping pass should know
+
+- Keefe is an unreliable narrator throughout. Summaries say what actually happened, and many
+  predicaments are about the gap between what happened and what he tells his friend.
+- Story 6 (146 scenes) is almost entirely situations 16-20, so it will swamp any group it touches.
+  Stories 0-4 carry the career-ladder material: situations 1-3, 5-7 and 10-13.
+- A handful of scenes are only a sign-off or a dateline (184, 264, 274). Their predicaments
+  describe where the letter-writer stands at that point, and they fit no group.