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": 123, "story": 11, "summary": "The town's telegraph operator, compared to a grotesque caged monkey, is the ugliest, dirtiest man in town, yet keeps his hands fine and is proud of having once been the best in the state.", "predicament": "A man fallen to an obscure post, repellent to everyone, still takes quiet pride in the one skill he has left."},
+ {"chunk": 124, "story": 11, "summary": "He shuns the townsmen, drinks heavily, and hates women; a few men secretly respect his hatred, and his superior, who keeps him in the post to avoid firing him, tears up a complaint against him.", "predicament": "A bitter man who scorns everyone is quietly admired by those who share a resentment they dare not voice."},
+ {"chunk": 125, "story": 11, "summary": "He once loved a beautiful wife; he tells his story to the young reporter only after seeing the boy embracing a woman who has another suitor.", "predicament": "A man with a painful secret decides to tell it to one young person after seeing him on the edge of the same mistake."},
+ {"chunk": 126, "story": 11, "summary": "The boy, long curious, waits beside him on a pile of railroad ties, then awkwardly asks whether he was married and whether his wife is dead.", "predicament": "A curious young man tries to draw out a silent older man, sensing he has something to say to him alone."},
+ {"chunk": 127, "story": 11, "summary": "He curses that his wife and all women are living dead things sent to keep men from making the world worthwhile.", "predicament": "A man betrayed long ago pours out a hatred of everyone like the one who hurt him to a startled young listener."},
+ {"chunk": 128, "story": 11, "summary": "In the dark his voice becomes almost beautiful; he says he tells the story to warn the boy and destroy his dreams, and describes marrying and settling down in a new post.", "predicament": "A disillusioned man tells his story to a young one precisely to destroy the dreams the young one still holds."},
+ {"chunk": 129, "story": 11, "summary": "He describes his devoted early marriage: planting a garden in spring while his wife handed him seeds and laughed at the worms.", "predicament": "A bitter man recalls, despite himself, a time of simple happiness with the person who later betrayed him."},
+ {"chunk": 130, "story": 11, "summary": "He admits he still loves her; after two years he found she had three lovers, sent her home silently with all his savings, wept, and was later summoned by her mother.", "predicament": "A man who discovers betrayal says nothing, gives away everything he has, and still aches to forgive."},
+ {"chunk": 131, "story": 11, "summary": "Waiting two hours in the mother's parlour, aching to forgive, he was confronted by his wife pushed in naked by her mother, who waited in the hall.", "predicament": "A man who came hoping to forgive and be reconciled is met instead with a crude scheme that destroys all hope."},
+ {"chunk": 132, "story": 11, "summary": "Back on the bright main street, the boy feels sick and old; the operator says he struck the mother with a chair and regrets she died before he could kill her.", "predicament": "A young man hears an older man's story of betrayal and walks away feeling old and sick himself."}
+]