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": 91,
"story": 8,
"summary": "Summoned by telegram, the narrator arrives at the gasworks where a crowd of hundreds watches a new balloon being inflated for a night flight.",
"predicament": "A guest arrives to join a daring venture that is being launched before a large, curious crowd."
},
{
"chunk": 92,
"story": 8,
"summary": "He explains the balloon's new varnish and valve, all made in the pilot's own shops; self-appointed experts in the crowd predict it will come down before the city walls, and paper patches on small holes alarm the onlookers.",
"predicament": "A builder launching an untried invention hears confident onlookers predict it will fail before it clears the town."
},
{
"chunk": 93,
"story": 8,
"summary": "After dinner the basket is loaded with instruments, horns and food; it proves too heavy and one passenger has to climb out, much to his regret, before the pilot cuts the ropes.",
"predicament": "A group setting out on a venture find there is not room for everyone, and one of them must stay behind."
},
{
"chunk": 94,
"story": 8,
"summary": "The balloon shoots up over the city and the river; the pilot gloats over his varnish, and they tell whether they are rising by dropping cigarette papers.",
"predicament": "A group lifted suddenly far above everyday life watch their friends and the world below shrink away."
},
{
"chunk": 95,
"story": 8,
"summary": "At five hundred metres they hear wheels, whips, trains and children's voices distinctly, and answer the people calling up to them with their siren.",
"predicament": "Travellers far above the world can still hear its ordinary noises clearly, and call back down to it."
},
{
"chunk": 96,
"story": 8,
"summary": "As night falls they argue over which town they are passing, hear dogs and cattle raise the alarm below, and the narrator feels a well-being he has never known.",
"predicament": "Travellers drifting with no fixed course debate where they are, and one feels a peace he has never known."
},
{
"chunk": 97,
"story": 8,
"summary": "The crew keep the balloon level with pinches of sand, delighting in how it answers the smallest weight while remaining the slave of the wind; their siren terrifies sleeping peasants.",
"predicament": "A crew handling something that answers every small touch but cannot be steered keep it aloft by constant small corrections."
},
{
"chunk": 98,
"story": 8,
"summary": "They rise above the mist into starlight as the moon comes up below them, and float in a silent, weightless intoxication.",
"predicament": "Cut off from the world below, a small group drift into a blissful state where nothing seems to matter."
},
{
"chunk": 99,
"story": 8,
"summary": "All care forgotten, they climb to 2,350 metres; then the balloon plunges and they hurl out ballast, landing near a populous plain where strange lights flash on the rivers.",
"predicament": "A group lost in blissful forgetfulness is jolted when their craft suddenly drops and they must act fast."
},
{
"chunk": 100,
"story": 8,
"summary": "They mistake their racing shadow for a dog and steer by the pole star toward Belgium, calling out for directions; the narrator hears what he knows to be a strong wind.",
"predicament": "An experienced traveller hears a sign of danger that the others, and even their leader, will not admit."
},
{
"chunk": 101,
"story": 8,
"summary": "The pilot nudges him to keep quiet so as not to frighten the passengers, since a storm is pursuing them; they pass over the dazzling furnaces of a manufacturing town.",
"predicament": "A leader who knows danger is coming keeps it quiet so as not to frighten the people in his care."
},
{
"chunk": 102,
"story": 8,
"summary": "Dawn shows the fields racing past; peasants shout at them to come down, but they hold their course over an old canal city whose chimes greet them.",
"predicament": "Travellers racing ahead of a storm are urged to come down, but hold their course as long as they can."
},
{
"chunk": 103,
"story": 8,
"summary": "They sight the sea ahead with thunder behind them; the pilot orders everything packed and hunts for a landing as they skim over a canal and a farm, scattering the animals.",
"predicament": "With open water ahead and a storm behind, a leader must bring his party down fast wherever he can."
},
{
"chunk": 104,
"story": 8,
"summary": "They drop, drag the anchor through a beet field and bounce to a halt; wary peasants and curious cows gather, and they catch a train home just before the storm breaks.",
"predicament": "A party makes a rough, frightening landing among wary strangers and escapes the storm with seconds to spare."
}
]