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": 4, "story": 1, "summary": "A nervous little old man paces the porch of his house at the edge of town while young berry pickers passing on the road jeer at him to comb hair he no longer has.", "predicament": "A timid old man living alone on the edge of things is mocked by passing young people as he paces back and forth."},
+ {"chunk": 5, "story": 1, "summary": "The old man, a town mystery for twenty years, waits anxiously for the one young man who visits him, in whose company he grows bold and talks out the ideas of his silent years.", "predicament": "A fearful recluse waits for the one young friend in whose company he dares to speak his long-held thoughts aloud."},
+ {"chunk": 6, "story": 1, "summary": "The old man's restless hands, which he tries to hide, have become his fame in town because of how fast they pick berries, and they make him seem stranger still.", "predicament": "A man is known for a trait he is ashamed of, and everyone admires it without ever asking why he hides it."},
+ {"chunk": 7, "story": 1, "summary": "The young man longs to ask about the hands but holds back; the old man scolds him for imitating the town, urges him to dream, and describes a pastoral golden age.", "predicament": "An older friend urges a young man to stop imitating the people around him and to trust his own dreams instead."},
+ {"chunk": 8, "story": 1, "summary": "Carried away, the old man lays his hands on the youth's shoulders, then in horror thrusts them into his pockets and hurries off; the frightened youth decides not to ask.", "predicament": "A lonely man reaches out to touch the young friend he cherishes, then recoils in terror and runs from him."},
+ {"chunk": 9, "story": 1, "summary": "Years earlier, under another name, the old man was a schoolmaster much loved by his boys, whose shoulders and hair he touched as he talked them into dreaming.", "predicament": "A gentle mentor shows his care for the young people in his charge through touch, and they begin to share his dreams."},
+ {"chunk": 10, "story": 1, "summary": "A half-witted pupil told his fantasies as fact; the town turned, a father beat the schoolmaster in the yard, and a mob with a rope drove him out into the rainy night.", "predicament": "A gentle man is falsely accused by a confused youth, and the whole community turns violently against him overnight."},
+ {"chunk": 11, "story": 1, "summary": "He fled, took a name off a crate, lived with an aunt, and has worked twenty years as a day labourer, hiding his hands because he believes they were to blame.", "predicament": "A man driven out by a false accusation starts over under a new name, blaming himself and hiding what he was."},
+ {"chunk": 12, "story": 1, "summary": "Alone at night he eats bread and honey and picks up crumbs from the floor with flashing fingers, like a priest at his rosary, his hunger for the boy folded back into waiting.", "predicament": "A lonely man ends another evening alone, his longing for his one friend folded back into habit and waiting."}
+]