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
2026-10-07 06:05:51 -04:00
parent e5617b86ba
commit 3a4758172d
566 changed files with 303901 additions and 0 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+[
+ {
+  "chunk": 262,
+  "story": 32,
+  "summary": "After a ballad epigraph, the narrator observes that everyone in the service believes his own small task is the pivot on which the whole administration turns.",
+  "predicament": "Everyone in a large organisation believes their own small task is what keeps the whole machine running."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 263,
+  "story": 32,
+  "summary": "A middle-aged official is said to know more about the princely states than any man alive; his superiors echo his words and feel they are guiding the empire, while he does the work.",
+  "predicament": "In a big undertaking, one expert does the real work while those above him repeat his words and collect the credit."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 264,
+  "story": 32,
+  "summary": "His superiors keep him working by praise, even the viceroy's, until he believes himself indispensable; yet hardly anyone knows who he is, and his work leaves no time for friends.",
+  "predicament": "An indispensable worker is kept at his desk by praise from above, while almost nobody knows who he is or what he does."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 265,
+  "story": 32,
+  "summary": "He falls suddenly in love with a frivolous, lisping girl; the station laughs; she pretends interest in his work and mocks it behind his back.",
+  "predicament": "A dry, overworked expert falls for a frivolous young woman who pretends interest in his work and mocks it behind his back."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 266,
+  "story": 32,
+  "summary": "After a month of doing his work badly, he conceives a great history to lay at her feet; she promises to wait a year, with an eye on his salary, and he takes leave.",
+  "predicament": "A man plans a great work to lay at his beloved's feet, and she agrees to wait, mostly for his salary."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 267,
+  "story": 32,
+  "summary": "He works ten hours a day for two hundred and thirty days, and love makes the book a masterpiece; the narrator notes how women drive men out of the ranks and then lose interest.",
+  "predicament": "Working blind for someone else's sake, a man toils day and night and produces the finest work of his whole life."
+ },
+ {
+  "chunk": 268,
+  "story": 32,
+  "summary": "She glances at it and says she did not understand it; broken, he returns to hack work and sinks the whole edition in a lake, keeping one copy that he later gives the narrator.",
+  "predicament": "The one person a man's life's work was made for dismisses it unread, and he destroys it and returns to drudgery."
+ }
+]