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": 155, "story": 14, "summary": "A silent, well-liked minister dreads preaching and prays each Sunday for strength; his stout wife is secretly proud as they drive about town in their carriage.", "predicament": "A quiet man respected in his position dreads the public part of his duties and prays each week for the courage to perform."},
{"chunk": 156, "story": 14, "summary": "He makes no enemies but no converts, suffers remorse that the spirit does not burn in him, dreams of power in his voice, and settles for doing well enough.", "predicament": "A man who has done his work decently for years secretly longs for a greatness he suspects he will never have."},
{"chunk": 157, "story": 14, "summary": "From his tower study he sees a woman next door smoking in bed with bare shoulders; shocked, he closes the window and preaches unusually well, hoping to reach her soul.", "predicament": "A man of spotless reputation glimpses something forbidden, and his shock turns into a fixation disguised as concern for her."},
{"chunk": 158, "story": 14, "summary": "The woman is a sharp-tongued teacher who has lived abroad; he talks himself out of condemning her smoking and throws himself into sermons meant for her.", "predicament": "A man tells himself his growing interest in a worldly neighbour is only a wish to help her, and works harder to reach her."},
{"chunk": 159, "story": 14, "summary": "Inexperienced with women and married after a courtship his wife conducted, he begins wanting to look at her again, breaks a hole in the window, and waits, but she is not there.", "predicament": "A man who never let himself think of anyone but his spouse finds himself arranging, in secret, to watch another person."},
{"chunk": 160, "story": 14, "summary": "Relieved at being spared, he forgets to mend the hole; that day he preaches that ministers too are tempted and have fallen, but God raises them up.", "predicament": "A man spared from acting on a secret temptation confesses in general terms, in public, that he too is tempted."},
{"chunk": 161, "story": 14, "summary": "He puts the woman out of his mind and becomes attentive to his wife, putting his arm around her on a drive and kissing her at breakfast, praying to stay on the narrow path.", "predicament": "A man fighting a forbidden attraction tries to cure it by turning his attention back to his neglected spouse."},
{"chunk": 162, "story": 14, "summary": "He discovers she reads in bed each evening and sits watching for hours, then walks the streets begging God to give him strength to mend the window.", "predicament": "A man who cannot stop watching someone in secret begs for the strength to do the one simple thing that would end it."},
{"chunk": 163, "story": 14, "summary": "For weeks he is troubled and begins to blame God, asking why he, who never sought sin, should be tempted.", "predicament": "A man who always lived by the rules is tempted for the first time and bitterly asks why this should happen to him."},
{"chunk": 164, "story": 14, "summary": "Three times that season he creeps back to watch, telling himself each time that he will sit there without looking and that the temptation is a test he will pass.", "predicament": "A man keeps returning to his secret temptation, each time telling himself he is only testing his own strength."},
{"chunk": 165, "story": 14, "summary": "On a bitter January night he goes to the tower resolved to give way to sin, thinking he will leave his calling for business rather than be a hypocrite.", "predicament": "A respected man decides he would rather give up his position and give in openly than go on living as a hypocrite."},
{"chunk": 166, "story": 14, "summary": "Freezing and feverish in the tower, he almost hates his wife for denying him passion and vows to pursue the teacher and live for his lusts.", "predicament": "A man waiting to give in to temptation blames his spouse for everything he has missed and vows to throw off all restraint."},
{"chunk": 167, "story": 14, "summary": "Near collapse, he sees the woman throw herself naked on the bed, weep, beat the pillow, and kneel to pray, looking like the child in the church window.", "predicament": "A man spying on someone in secret sees her private anguish, and it changes utterly what he thought he was looking at."},
{"chunk": 168, "story": 14, "summary": "He smashes the window with his fist, runs to the young reporter's office, and declares that God has revealed himself in the body of a woman and he is delivered.", "predicament": "A man who has fought a secret temptation for months bursts in on a young acquaintance declaring himself miraculously set free."}
]