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": 108, "story": 13,
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"summary": "A broker angling for the father's business lets slip that the son made a profit selling short; the father has the account closed and the profit given to an orphans' home.",
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"predicament": "Someone has quietly made a profit gambling on prices, and it has come to the notice of the one they work for.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 109, "story": 13,
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"summary": "The firm will fire the son if he trades again; margin trading is trading on nothing, speculators cannot stop, and being the son of a packer gives him no edge.",
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"predicament": "Someone on modest pay is tempted to gamble on prices, sure that their inside view of the trade gives them an edge.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "gamble on the market while employed by the firm", "outcome": "the firm will dismiss you", "quote": "the particular one is that Graham & Co. will fire you if you do", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "start speculating at all", "outcome": "winners cannot stop until they lose, and losers cannot stop until they win", "quote": "When a speculator wins he don't stop till he loses, and when he loses he can't stop till he wins.", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "count on inside knowledge of the trade to win at speculation", "outcome": "it gives you no edge", "quote": "Because you are the son of a pork packer you may think that you know a little more than the next fellow about paper pork. There's nothing in it.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 110, "story": 13,
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"summary": "A speculating clerk loses more than money: bad habits and self-respect; a man is broke only when character goes; the father has kept many clerks out of prison after they fed losses from his cash drawer.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has lost money gambling is tempted to win it back by means they would once have refused.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "chase your losses", "outcome": "you trade away your self-respect to win the money back", "quote": "if the market goes up, he's likely to go short his self-respect to win back his money", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "cover speculating losses from your employer's cash", "outcome": "it leads toward prison", "quote": "I've kept a heap smarter boys than you out of Joliet when they found it easy to feed the Board of Trade hog out of my cash drawer", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 111, "story": 13,
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"summary": "A dollar earning twenty per cent is either very good or very foolish, and one earning a hundred is heading for ruin; sure things and tips bite. A pious, well-off deacon is introduced.",
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"predicament": "Someone is offered a return on their money so high that it ought to make them ask what is wrong with it.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "check hard before trusting any unusually high return", "outcome": "it may be very good or very foolish, and you must know which", "quote": "when it makes twenty you own a blame good critter or a mighty foolish one, and you want to make dead sure which", "stance": "do"},
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{"move": "take up sure things and straight tips", "outcome": "they bite you", "quote": "looking as innocent as if they hadn't just killed a lamb, but they'll bite", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 112, "story": 13,
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"summary": "The deacon preaches giving while hoarding safely, condemns his broker brother's high living, and goes to stay with him in the city because it is cheaper than a hotel.",
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"predicament": "Someone who preaches thrift and virtue to others goes to stay with a relative whose way of life they condemn.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 113, "story": 13,
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"summary": "Duty to most men is what the other fellow should do; a man's first duty is minding his own business. The deacon lectures his brother on cigars, fast horses and the sinful exchange.",
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"predicament": "Someone accepts a relative's hospitality while lecturing them on the sinfulness of how they live.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "spend your effort reforming other people's characters", "outcome": "you neglect building your own", "quote": "if a fellow's putting in five or six hours a day on his neighbor's character, he's mighty apt to scamp the building of his own", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 114, "story": 13,
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"summary": "The broker pretends to take the sermon to heart and offers to quit; the deacon, heir to his money, starts to hedge; the broker confesses he speculated once, to make his brother a present.",
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"predicament": "Someone who hopes to inherit a relative's money pushes them to reform, then fears the reform may cost the inheritance.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 115, "story": 13,
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"summary": "Expecting to be asked to cover a loss, the deacon refuses gambling money on principle, then learns it was a two-hundred-dollar gain; the broker says he cannot now offer it or keep it.",
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"predicament": "Someone who refused tainted money on principle learns it was a gain, not a loss, and regrets the stand they took.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 116, "story": 13,
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"summary": "The deacon lies awake over the money and next morning questions his brother about how speculation works, hoping to find it respectable.",
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"predicament": "Someone who condemned a way of making money hunts for reasons to call it respectable once some is on offer.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 117, "story": 13,
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"summary": "Finding real grain somewhere behind the trading, the deacon declares speculation legitimate and accepts; the broker has already sent the money to the deacon's pastor, who spent it on the poor.",
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"predicament": "Someone who talks themselves out of their principles to take easy money finds it already gone.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "step off the straight path to pick up easy money", "outcome": "there is a string tied to it, and it is yanked away", "quote": "when he reaches down to pick up the money there's usually a string tied to it and a small boy in the bushes to give it a yank", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "count on easy money or easy loans", "outcome": "easy money earns nothing and easy loans cost dearly", "quote": "Easy-come money never draws interest; easy-borrowed dollars pay usury.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 118, "story": 13,
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"summary": "Exchanges have their uses, but not for someone who owns no more pork than is on his plate; until then he can go there only as a sucker.",
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"predicament": "Someone with no stake in the real goods is tempted to trade in a market run by the people who hold them.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "trade on a market where you hold none of the real goods", "outcome": "you are the sucker", "quote": "When you become a packer you may go on 'Change as a trader; until then you can go there only as a sucker.", "stance": "avoid"}]}
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]
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