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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{"chunk": 88, "story": 11,
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"summary": "The father wants no more meek, wounded letters in answer to his criticism: a mule that takes the whip too quietly is only growing meaner inside.",
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"predicament": "Someone under criticism answers with meek, wounded resignation instead of kicking back or doing better.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "take criticism with sulky, long-suffering resignation", "outcome": "your superior reads it as meanness, not meekness", "quote": "I know it's not meekness, but meanness, that I've got to fight, and it's hard to tell which is the worst.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 89, "story": 11,
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"summary": "Idle young men claim others rose by pull and that jealous managers hold them down; no pull lifts a man higher than his own effort, and the man held down is usually one his boss cannot hold up.",
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"predicament": "Someone who was passed over blames a rival's connections and a jealous superior for holding them back.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "count on connections to lift you", "outcome": "no connection lifts you above what your own effort can", "quote": "I never saw one strong enough to lift a man any higher than he could raise himself by his boot straps", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "complain that you are being held down", "outcome": "it usually shows your superior cannot hold you up", "quote": "when a fellow whines that he's being held down, the truth is, as a general thing, that his boss can't hold him up", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 90, "story": 11,
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"summary": "A good man bounces back like a thrown cat or a small football player who is always out from under the pile; one who knows his business needs no bragging.",
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"predicament": "Someone knocked about by setbacks must decide whether to bounce back quietly or tell everyone how good they really are.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "talk big about what you know", "outcome": "it shows how little you know", "quote": "It isn't what a man knows, but what he thinks he knows that he brags about. Big talk means little knowledge.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 91, "story": 11,
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"summary": "Facts must be sorted and half forgotten before they are useful; there is no cure for a big head, prosperity spoils men, and the son has sulked too soon.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has taken in a great deal of knowledge, or a little success, begins to think too well of themselves.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "let yourself get a big head", "outcome": "there is no cure, and it ends by bursting", "quote": "Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 92, "story": 11,
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"summary": "Knowing the business wins a buyer's attention, but confidence takes tact: a man who tried to please both wife and mother under one roof lost both, where tact would have kept them apart and each content.",
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"predicament": "Someone must keep two parties content who each resent any favour shown to the other.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "try openly to please two rivals at once", "outcome": "you make both of them angry", "quote": "when he tried to make them both happy he only succeeded in making them both mad", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "keep rivals apart and let each think they are getting slightly the better of it", "outcome": "each stays content", "quote": "kept them in separate houses, and have let each one think that she was getting a trifle the best of it", "stance": "do"}]},
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{"chunk": 93, "story": 11,
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"summary": "Calling a man a liar gets you knocked down, sneering gets you disliked, and a tactful double-edged compliment gets the trade; keep your opinions to yourself, and own up to a mistake at once.",
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"predicament": "Someone is sure a person they must deal with is a liar, and must decide whether and how to say so.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "tell someone plainly that they are a liar", "outcome": "you get knocked down", "quote": "Some men deal in facts, and call Bill Jones a liar. They get knocked down.", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "say something about a doubtful person that they will take as praise", "outcome": "you get their trade", "quote": "when that comes back to Bill he is half tickled to death, because he doesn't know that the higher criticism has hurt the Baron's reputation. That man gets the trade.", "stance": "do"},
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{"move": "cover up a mistake", "outcome": "it breeds a lie, and the lie destroys the trust others had in you", "quote": "A mistake sprouts a lie when you cover it up. And one lie breeds enough distrust to choke out the prettiest crop of confidence that a fellow ever cultivated.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 94, "story": 11,
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"summary": "A salesman needs the confidence of both firm and buyer: cheat the buyer and lose the trade, trifle with the firm and lose the job; push business in good times and bad. A travelling quack comes to the father's boyhood town.",
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"predicament": "Someone standing between their employer and the customers must keep the trust of both, when cheating either would be easy.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "cheat the customer, or play games with your employer", "outcome": "you lose the customer's trade, or your job", "quote": "If you skin the buyer you will lose your trade; and if you play tag with the house you will lose your job.", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "push for business in good times and bad alike", "outcome": "in good times it comes easily, and in bad the orders are needed", "quote": "When business is good, that is the time to force it, because it will come easy; and when it is bad, that is the time to force it, too", "stance": "do"}]},
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{"chunk": 95, "story": 11,
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"summary": "The quack's tricks, songs and tales draw a crowd but sell nothing, since nobody is sick and a rival had already sold the town a cheaper cure.",
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"predicament": "Someone with goods to sell draws a large, friendly crowd and still sells nothing, because nobody feels any need.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 96, "story": 11,
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"summary": "Instead of moving on, the quack praises the town's health while listing every epidemic creeping toward it, and warns against imitations.",
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"predicament": "Someone facing buyers who feel no need for the goods sets about making them feel one.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 97, "story": 11,
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"summary": "The speech leaves the women uneasy, but the quack holds back from selling, entertains, and returns next day for a children's show, where a child starts howling.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has stirred up worry in a crowd holds back the offer until exactly the right moment comes.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 98, "story": 11,
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"summary": "The quack doses the crying child and pretends to draw a swallowed button-hook from his mouth; in the excitement every mother in town buys a bottle.",
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"predicament": "Someone stages a convincing demonstration so that an uneasy crowd rushes to buy what it had just refused.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "stage a demonstration that makes the need feel real", "outcome": "the whole crowd buys", "quote": "leaving his stock of the Priceless Boon distributed--for the usual consideration--among all the mothers in town", "stance": "do"}]},
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{"chunk": 99, "story": 11,
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"summary": "The family never owned a button-hook; the father offers the quack as a lesson in method, not morals: a good salesman creates an appetite, and new methods beat old ones.",
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"predicament": "Someone selling to people who feel no need must decide whether to wait for demand or to create it.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "create a demand where the buyer feels none", "outcome": "that is what makes a good salesman", "quote": "a good salesman is like a good cook--he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry", "stance": "do"},
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{"move": "keep doing things the same way year after year", "outcome": "people tire of it and want a change", "quote": "Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days.", "stance": "avoid"}]}
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]
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