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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"summary": "The narrator and his reasoning friend are sitting in the dark when the head of the police, an old acquaintance, arrives to consult them on troublesome official business.",
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"predicament": "An official out of his depth comes to a clever private acquaintance for advice on a matter he cannot solve himself."
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},
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"chunk": 1,
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"summary": "The official laughs at the friend's hint that the matter may be too simple, and warns that he would lose his post if it were known he had confided in anyone.",
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"predicament": "An official who must keep a matter secret or lose his post asks outsiders for help, then scoffs at their first hint."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 2,
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"summary": "He explains that a compromising document has been stolen from the royal apartments by a known man, who holds it as a weapon over the lady it belongs to.",
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"predicament": "A person of high rank has lost a compromising paper to someone who now holds it over her as a weapon."
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},
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"chunk": 3,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "The thief, a daring minister, took the letter from the table in front of the lady, who could not object without drawing the attention of the person she was hiding it from.",
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"predicament": "A woman watches a schemer pocket her compromising letter and cannot object without revealing it to the one she hides it from."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 4,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "The lady, desperate, has handed the recovery to the official, who must search the minister's house without ever letting him suspect it.",
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"predicament": "An official must recover a stolen paper from a powerful man's house without ever letting that man suspect a search."
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},
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"chunk": 5,
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"summary": "He has ransacked the house every night for three months, spurred by honour and an enormous reward, and has even had the thief waylaid and searched in the street.",
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"predicament": "An official has searched a rival's house by night for months, driven by honour and a huge reward, and found nothing."
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},
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"chunk": 6,
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"summary": "The friend says the thief must have foreseen the waylaying; the official dismisses the thief as a poet and describes taking every piece of furniture apart.",
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"predicament": "A searcher who has taken everything apart insists his methods cannot fail, and looks down on the man he is searching."
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},
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"chunk": 7,
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"summary": "The official describes examining every joint, mirror, bed and square inch of the house and its neighbours with a microscope.",
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"predicament": "A searcher describes exhausting every conceivable hiding place with painstaking care, certain that nothing could have escaped him."
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},
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"chunk": 8,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "Even the books, carpets and cellars yielded nothing; the friend's only advice is to search the whole house again.",
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"predicament": "A searcher who has looked everywhere is told his only course is to look again, and knows it is hopeless."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 9,
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"summary": "A month later the official admits the second search failed, that the reward has doubled, and that he would pay fifty thousand francs himself for the letter.",
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"predicament": "An official who has failed again admits he would pay a fortune out of his own pocket to anyone who could help."
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},
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"chunk": 10,
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"summary": "The friend tells him to write the cheque, then hands over the letter; the stunned official snatches it and rushes out without a word.",
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"predicament": "An official who promised a fortune to anyone who could help is told to sign it over, and gets what he wanted at once."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 11,
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"summary": "Alone with the narrator, the friend begins explaining that the police are able and did their search perfectly, within its limits.",
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"predicament": "A clever man tells his companion that diligent searchers failed only because their methods did not suit the case."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 12,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "He tells of a schoolboy who won every marble at guessing even-or-odd by judging how clever each opponent was.",
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"predicament": "A reasoner explains that beating an opponent depends on judging exactly how clever that particular opponent is."
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},
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"chunk": 13,
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"summary": "The boy's secret was to copy his opponent's expression and see what thoughts it produced in himself.",
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"predicament": "A reasoner claims the way to read an opponent is to copy his face and wait to see what thoughts arise."
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},
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"chunk": 14,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "The friend argues the police fail because they search only where they themselves would hide something, and underrated the thief as a mere poet.",
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"predicament": "Searchers fail because they only look where they themselves would hide a thing, and the one they seek thinks differently."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 15,
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"summary": "The narrator objects that the thief is a mathematician, not a poet; the friend answers that he is both, and attacks the received view of mathematical reason.",
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"predicament": "A clever man insists that his opponent's supposed weakness is really his strength, against what everyone else believes."
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"chunk": 16,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "The friend argues at length that mathematical truths do not hold in morals or motive, and that mathematicians will fight anyone who says so.",
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"predicament": "A reasoner attacks a respected habit of thought, warning that its followers will turn violent on anyone who questions it."
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"chunk": 17,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "He explains that he knew the minister as poet, courtier and intriguer, and reasoned that the man expected every search and even invited them.",
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"predicament": "A man who knows his opponent's cunning reasons that the rival foresaw every search and arranged to be searched."
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},
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"chunk": 18,
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"summary": "He argues that great minds, like large bodies, are slow to start, and asks the narrator which shop signs draw the eye.",
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"predicament": "A reasoner suggests that the most obvious things are exactly the ones careful people are least likely to notice."
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},
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"chunk": 19,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "He explains that the largest names on a map go unnoticed, and concludes that the minister hid the letter by not hiding it at all.",
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"predicament": "A reasoner concludes that the cleverest hiding place is in plain view, where no careful searcher would think to look."
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},
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"chunk": 20,
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"summary": "Wearing green spectacles as an excuse, the friend calls on the minister, scans the room, and notices a soiled, torn letter stuffed carelessly in a card-rack.",
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"predicament": "A man calls on a rival under a pretext, hiding his searching eyes, and spots what he came for in plain sight."
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},
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"chunk": 21,
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"summary": "Though it looks nothing like the description, its dirt, its tears and its obvious place convince him it is the stolen letter, disguised.",
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"predicament": "A searcher sees an object made to look worthless and recognises it precisely because of how carefully it was disguised."
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},
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"chunk": 22,
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"summary": "He memorises the letter, leaves a snuff-box as an excuse to return, and next day, while the minister runs to the window at a gunshot outside, swaps it for a copy.",
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"predicament": "A man stages a disturbance outside so he can swap a rival's prize for a fake while the rival looks away."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 23,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "The man who fired the musket was paid by the friend; the narrator asks why he did not simply seize the letter and leave.",
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"predicament": "A man who pulled off a secret swap reveals that the commotion which covered it was his own doing."
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"chunk": 24,
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"story": 0,
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"summary": "The friend says seizing it openly might have cost his life, and that the minister, unaware, will now ruin himself acting on a power he no longer holds.",
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"predicament": "A man turns the tables on a powerful schemer, leaving him to use a hold he no longer has and ruin himself."
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},
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"chunk": 25,
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"summary": "For an old wrong the minister once did him, the friend wrote a quotation in the copy so the minister will know who outwitted him.",
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"predicament": "A man who once promised to repay an old injury leaves his rival a quiet clue to who has outwitted him."
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}
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