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": 211, "story": 18, "summary": "The awkward son of a failing store, lacing his shoes in a back shed, sees the young reporter at the printshop door and, sure he is listening to a salesman working on his father, stamps in fury.", "predicament": "A self-conscious young man is sure that a passer-by who stands for everyone else is listening and laughing at his family."},
{"chunk": 212, "story": 18, "summary": "The store sells everything and nothing, its window holding a lump of coal and six-month-old honey; the father, a former farmer, wears his greasy wedding coat every day to feel dressed up.", "predicament": "A family whose business and whose looks are a local joke carries on as if nobody noticed."},
{"chunk": 213, "story": 18, "summary": "The father is afraid of every salesman, fearing both to refuse and to buy; a salesman flatters him into taking an exclusive agency for collar fasteners.", "predicament": "An anxious man who cannot say yes or no is flattered by a smooth talker into buying what he can never sell."},
{"chunk": 214, "story": 18, "summary": "The son grabs a cheap revolver from the showcase and screams at the salesman to get out, that they are through being fools and queer; the salesman flees, calling him crazy.", "predicament": "A young man who can bear his family's foolishness no longer lashes out wildly at the outsider taking advantage of it."},
{"chunk": 215, "story": 18, "summary": "Embarrassed, he waits for a word of understanding from his father, who only mutters his odd saying; the son strides out of town vowing he will not be queer and will show the reporter.", "predicament": "A young man who waits for a parent's understanding gets only bewilderment, and storms off vowing to prove himself."},
{"chunk": 216, "story": 18, "summary": "The reporter, whom he does not know, stands in his mind for the town's judgment that condemned his family to queerness; after a year he has no friends and hates the thought.", "predicament": "A friendless young man picks one confident person to stand for the whole community's judgment, and wants to strike at it."},
{"chunk": 217, "story": 18, "summary": "Miserable and cold, he walks to his boyhood farm and signals to the old half-witted hired man who stayed on there, the only person he feels he can explain himself to.", "predicament": "A young man in misery walks miles to the one simple soul he feels safe explaining himself to."},
{"chunk": 218, "story": 18, "summary": "The old man lives happily talking to his animals and is the source of the father's odd saying; he sits by the fire warming his feet, indifferent to what the young man says.", "predicament": "A troubled young man pours his heart out to someone happy and simple who barely listens."},
{"chunk": 219, "story": 18, "summary": "He rants that his father and dead mother were queer, that the store is a jumble that will never sell, and that his sister knows but says nothing while he will not be stared at any longer.", "predicament": "A young man ashamed of his parents' oddness rails that he alone sees how everyone looks at them."},
{"chunk": 220, "story": 18, "summary": "He says in town nobody talks to him and he cannot talk either; he screams at the old man, then admits he ran to another queer one because he is a coward, and vows to confront the reporter.", "predicament": "A young man admits he fled to someone as odd as himself because he is too frightened to face anyone who matters."},
{"chunk": 221, "story": 18, "summary": "The old man tells the cows the young man is crazy and will hurt someone; that evening the young man calls the reporter outside, and the reporter goes gladly, hoping to make a friend.", "predicament": "A tormented young man finally summons the person he resents, who comes along gladly hoping to become his friend."},
{"chunk": 222, "story": 18, "summary": "Facing the reporter on the cold street, he cannot speak, tells him to go back, and wanders for hours blind with anger at his failure, seeing no future for himself.", "predicament": "A young man who has worked himself up to speak his mind freezes at the moment and sends the other person away."},
{"chunk": 223, "story": 18, "summary": "He takes twenty dollars from the family's hidden cash box and plans to ride a freight train to the city, lose himself among workmen, and at last have friends and not be queer.", "predicament": "A young man convinced he can never belong where he is decides to slip away to somewhere nobody will know him."},
{"chunk": 224, "story": 18, "summary": "Newly confident, he has the reporter woken to meet him at the depot, but when the moment comes he can only mutter the old man's saying.", "predicament": "A young man about to leave for good wants to say one important thing before he goes, and cannot find the words."},
{"chunk": 225, "story": 18, "summary": "In a fury he thrusts the stolen money into the reporter's hand to return, beats him senseless, jumps onto the moving train, and cries proudly that he showed him he is not queer.", "predicament": "A young man unable to say what he means strikes out at the one who came to listen, and leaves proud of it."}
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