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": 169, "story": 15, "summary": "On a snowy day men chat about sleighing and wheat; the young reporter, with nothing to do, walks past the frozen pond and builds a fire in a beech grove to think.", "predicament": "A young man with a free day slips away from everyone to sit alone and think over something that puzzles him."},
{"chunk": 170, "story": 15, "summary": "He broods over his former teacher's earnest talks, suspects she loves him, rehearses confronting her aloud, then lies in his room embracing a pillow and thinking of her and of the banker's daughter.", "predicament": "A young man cannot make out what an older woman means by her earnest talks, and suspects, half pleased, that she loves him."},
{"chunk": 171, "story": 15, "summary": "By night the snowbound town is asleep; the lame old night watchman makes his rounds, checks the doors, and settles by the hotel stove.", "predicament": "An old man doing a humble job through the night checks every door while everyone else sleeps."},
{"chunk": 172, "story": 15, "summary": "The watchman plans to paint his house and dreams of retiring to breed ferrets; only the reporter, the minister in the tower and the teacher are awake.", "predicament": "An old man near the end of his working life dreams by the stove of a small new venture to see him through."},
{"chunk": 173, "story": 15, "summary": "The teacher, plain by day but lovely in the night, suddenly runs out into the storm, though a doctor has just warned her she may be losing her hearing.", "predicament": "A woman driven by a feeling she cannot contain rushes out into a storm, heedless of a warning about her health."},
{"chunk": 174, "story": 15, "summary": "She walks far through the snow; in the schoolroom she is cold and stern, yet sometimes, seized by happiness, she tells the children strange, intimate invented stories about dead writers.", "predicament": "A stern person who keeps everyone at a distance sometimes bursts out with a warmth that bewilders the people in her charge."},
{"chunk": 175, "story": 15, "summary": "Once she made the children roar with a comic tale about a boastful artist, laughing with them, then turned cold and stern again.", "predicament": "A reserved woman lets her guard down to laugh with those in her charge, then abruptly turns cold again."},
{"chunk": 176, "story": 15, "summary": "The town thinks her a cold old maid, but she is the most passionate soul among them and often walks half the night; her mother fears she has her wild father's nature.", "predicament": "A woman everyone thinks cold and dried up is in fact the most passionate person among them, and nobody suspects it."},
{"chunk": 177, "story": 15, "summary": "She saw a spark of talent in the reporter's schoolboy writing; one summer she took him out and told him earnestly he must stop fooling with words and learn what people think, not what they say.", "predicament": "A mentor who sees real promise in a young person urges them earnestly to stop playing and learn what life is really about."},
{"chunk": 178, "story": 15, "summary": "The evening before, as he was leaving with a borrowed book, she took his hand and brushed his cheek with her lips, then turned harsh, saying it would be ten years before he understood her.", "predicament": "A mentor's earnest wish to be understood by a young person slips into tenderness, and she covers it with harshness."},
{"chunk": 179, "story": 15, "summary": "On the stormy night she goes into the newspaper office, talks passionately about life for an hour, then says she must go or she will want to kiss him.", "predicament": "A lonely woman trying to open a young person's eyes to life feels her passion to teach turn into longing to be loved."},
{"chunk": 180, "story": 15, "summary": "She lets him hold her, then stiffens and beats his face with her fists and runs; the minister bursts in raving about her; the reporter goes home to his cold bed.", "predicament": "A young man embraced and then struck by an older woman is left furious and baffled about what she wanted."},
{"chunk": 181, "story": 15, "summary": "Lying awake till four, he tries to understand what happened and mutters as he falls asleep that he has missed something she was trying to tell him.", "predicament": "A young man lies awake realising that someone had been trying to tell him something important, and he missed it."}
]