JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5
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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": 92, "story": 92, "summary": "A wounded wolf asks a passing sheep to fetch him water, and the sheep sees he would make her the meat as well.", "predicament": "Someone known to prey on people like you is laid up and asks you for a small favour that would bring you within reach.", "moral": "Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through."},
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{"chunk": 93, "story": 93, "summary": "An old woman sniffs an empty wine jar and praises how fine the wine must have been.", "predicament": "Only the faint trace of someone's good work is left behind, and you find yourself still admiring what it must have been.", "moral": "The memory of a good deed lives."},
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{"chunk": 94, "story": 94, "summary": "A man bitten by a dog is advised to feed the dog bread dipped in his blood, and says that would invite every dog to bite him.", "predicament": "Someone who hurt you could be soothed with a reward, and you are advised that appeasing them is the cure.", "moral": "Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you."},
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{"chunk": 95, "story": 95, "summary": "A huntsman and a fisherman swap their catches daily until a neighbour warns that habit will spoil the pleasure.", "predicament": "An exchange with a partner has pleased you both so much that you repeat it daily, and someone warns it will soon go stale.", "moral": "Abstain and enjoy."},
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{"chunk": 96, "story": 96, "summary": "A fox flatters a crow's beauty and doubts her voice, so she caws and drops her meat to him.", "predicament": "Someone who wants what you hold praises you lavishly, then hints at one doubt you would have to prove wrong by speaking up.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 97, "story": 97, "summary": "A poor widow shears her sheep herself to save the fee and cuts his flesh with the wool.", "predicament": "To save an expert's fee you are doing a skilled job yourself, and you are hurting the thing you meant to profit from.", "moral": "The least outlay is not always the greatest gain."},
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{"chunk": 98, "story": 98, "summary": "An ass dances on the roof and is beaten, protesting that everyone laughed when the monkey did it.", "predicament": "You copied a favourite's antics that everyone applauded, and are being punished for exactly what they were praised for.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 99, "story": 99, "summary": "A hunted stag hides in an ox-stall, escapes the servants' notice, and is found by the sharp-eyed master.", "predicament": "You are hiding from trouble in a place you should not be, the careless have passed you by, and the sharp-eyed boss is coming.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 100, "story": 100, "summary": "A hound complains that the housedog feasts on his catch, and the housedog tells him to blame the master who taught him so.", "predicament": "You do the hard work while a colleague enjoys its rewards, and they say the fault lies with the boss who arranged it.", "moral": "Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents."},
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{"chunk": 101, "story": 101, "summary": "A lion and a wild ass hunt together, and the lion takes all three shares by rank, partnership and threat.", "predicament": "You went into a venture with a far more powerful partner, and now they are dividing the proceeds entirely their own way.", "moral": "Might makes right."},
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{"chunk": 102, "story": 102, "summary": "A lion allies with a dolphin, and when the dolphin cannot come ashore to help him fight, calls him a traitor.", "predicament": "An impressive ally from another field swore friendship with you, and now you need help they have no means to give.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 103, "story": 103, "summary": "An eagle is mortally shot with an arrow fledged with his own feathers.", "predicament": "You are being brought down by a rival who is using the very tools, ideas or people you supplied them.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 104, "story": 104, "summary": "A dying kite asks his mother to pray for him, and she asks which god he has not robbed.", "predicament": "In your hour of need you look for someone to speak up for you, and realise you have cheated everyone who could.", "moral": "We must make friends in prosperity if we would have their help in adversity."},
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{"chunk": 105, "story": 105, "summary": "A lion and a boar fighting over a well see vultures waiting and make peace.", "predicament": "You and a rival are fighting over something small, and you notice others waiting to pick over whoever loses.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 106, "story": 106, "summary": "The mice agree to bell the cat, but none will volunteer to do it.", "predicament": "Everyone agrees a clever plan to deal with the danger, and the only question left is who will risk carrying it out.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 107, "story": 107, "summary": "A one-eyed doe watches the land and is shot from the sea she thought safe.", "predicament": "You have guarded carefully against the threat you expect, and turned your back entirely on the side you assume is safe.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 108, "story": 108, "summary": "Mice appoint generals who wear conspicuous plumes, and in the rout the generals cannot fit into their holes and are eaten.", "predicament": "You have been promoted and given marks of rank, and when things go wrong those marks may be exactly what trap you.", "moral": "The more honour the more danger."},
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{"chunk": 109, "story": 109, "summary": "A shepherd sells his flock to trade dates by sea, loses all in a storm, and later sneers that the calm sea wants more dates.", "predicament": "A calm opening tempts you to sell what you have and stake it all on a trade you do not know.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 110, "story": 110, "summary": "An ass sees a lion flee at a cock's crow, chases the lion himself, and is torn apart.", "predicament": "You saw someone powerful back down before another person, and are tempted to think they will back down before you too.", "moral": "False confidence often leads into danger."},
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{"chunk": 111, "story": 111, "summary": "The rivers complain the sea makes them salty, and the sea tells them to stop flowing into it.", "predicament": "People who keep choosing to join you complain that you change them, and are trying to lay the blame on you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 112, "story": 112, "summary": "A boar whets his tusks with no enemy in sight, saying there is no time to sharpen them once attacked.", "predicament": "Things are quiet with no threat in sight, and someone asks why you are spending effort preparing for trouble.", "moral": "To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace."},
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{"chunk": 113, "story": 113, "summary": "A milkmaid counts the future profits of her milk, tosses her head at imagined suitors, and spills the pail.", "predicament": "You are carrying your only real asset while already spending, in your head, everything you hope it will turn into.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 114, "story": 114, "summary": "A bee asks Jupiter for a deadly sting, and gets one that kills her if she uses it.", "predicament": "A powerful patron has promised you any favour, and you are tempted to ask for the power to punish anyone touching what is yours.", "moral": "Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost."},
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{"chunk": 115, "story": 115, "summary": "A lean wolf admires a well-fed dog until he sees the heavy collar and log, and wants none of it.", "predicament": "A well-fed insider shows you how comfortably their employer keeps them, and you notice the chain they wear for it.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 116, "story": 116, "summary": "A besieged city asks how to defend itself, and the bricklayer, carpenter and currier each propose their own trade.", "predicament": "In a crisis everyone is asked for the best solution, and each expert recommends exactly what they happen to sell.", "moral": "Every man for himself."},
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{"chunk": 117, "story": 117, "summary": "An ass carrying a sacred image thinks the crowd bows to him and balks, until the driver's whip corrects him.", "predicament": "People bow as you pass, and you are tempted to believe it is for you rather than for what you happen to carry.", "moral": "They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others."},
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{"chunk": 118, "story": 118, "summary": "A storm-bound man kills his sheep, goats and then his oxen, and his dogs flee reasoning they are next.", "predicament": "In hard times your employer has sacrificed even the people who earn for them, and you wonder how long before it is you.", "moral": "He is not to be trusted as a friend who mistreats his own family."},
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{"chunk": 119, "story": 119, "summary": "An old hound loses his grip on a boar and, abused by his master, asks to be praised for what he was.", "predicament": "Age has cost you the ability you were known for, and your boss is berating you for failing at it.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 120, "story": 120, "summary": "A traveller says 'I' found the axe but 'we' are undone when the owner comes, and his companion holds him to 'I'.", "predicament": "A companion kept a find to themselves, and now that it has brought trouble they want you to share the blame.", "moral": "He who shares the danger ought to share the prize."},
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{"chunk": 121, "story": 121, "summary": "A dying old lion is struck by the boar and the bull, and then kicked by the ass.", "predicament": "Once powerful, you are now weak, and even the least of those you once ruled are lining up to strike at you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 122, "story": 122, "summary": "A wolf sees shepherds eating mutton and remarks on the outcry there would be if he did the same.", "predicament": "The people who condemn you for something are openly doing the very same thing themselves.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 123, "story": 123, "summary": "Travellers wait for what they think is a ship, and it turns out to be a bundle of sticks.", "predicament": "You have waited a long while for something that looked grand from far away, and it is shrinking as it comes closer.", "moral": "Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities."},
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{"chunk": 124, "story": 124, "summary": "A traveller and the ass's owner fight over who hired the ass's shadow, and the ass runs off.", "predicament": "You and a client are locked in a bitter dispute over a technicality while the thing you both needed slips away.", "moral": "In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance."},
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{"chunk": 125, "story": 125, "summary": "An overworked ass keeps asking for a new master and each is worse, ending with a tanner.", "predicament": "You are unhappy with your boss and could ask for a transfer, though you have asked before and each move was worse.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 126, "story": 126, "summary": "Mercury in disguise asks a sculptor the price of his own statue, expecting it to be highest, and is offered it free.", "predicament": "You go incognito to find out how highly people rate you, expecting to hear you are the most valued of all.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 127, "story": 127, "summary": "A woodcutter hides a fox but points to it while denying it, and the fox leaves without thanks.", "predicament": "Someone claims you owe them for protecting you, when their words protected you and their gestures quietly gave you away.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 128, "story": 128, "summary": "An uprooted oak asks the reeds how they survive the wind, and they say they bend rather than fight.", "predicament": "A force far stronger than you is sweeping through, and you could stand rigid against it or bend until it passes.", "moral": "Stoop to conquer."},
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{"chunk": 129, "story": 129, "summary": "A farmer shuts a lion in his farmyard, loses his flocks, and has to let it go.", "predicament": "You have a chance to trap someone far more dangerous than you, but you would be locked in with them.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 130, "story": 130, "summary": "A lion takes a stolen lamb from a wolf, who protests the injustice, and the lion jeers at his claim.", "predicament": "Someone stronger has taken from you something you had taken dishonestly yourself, and you want to protest.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 131, "story": 131, "summary": "A birdcatcher spares his decoy partridge and his cock after each pleads usefulness, but still must feed his guest.", "predicament": "Your boss needs to cut someone and you plead how useful you are, but the need is pressing and must be met somehow.", "moral": "Necessity knows no law."},
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{"chunk": 132, "story": 132, "summary": "A dove saves a drowning ant with a leaf, and the ant later stings a birdcatcher to save the dove.", "predicament": "Someone you once helped for nothing sees a threat to you coming that you cannot see, and has a chance to repay you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 133, "story": 133, "summary": "Despairing hares rush to drown themselves, see frogs flee from them, and take heart.", "predicament": "You feel so weak and harried that you are ready to give up entirely, and then notice others who fear even you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 134, "story": 134, "summary": "A monkey copies the fishermen's netting, gets tangled and drowns.", "predicament": "You have watched experts do a job and are about to try it yourself with their tools, having never learned how.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 135, "story": 135, "summary": "A swan seized by mistake for the goose sings and is known and spared.", "predicament": "In the dark you have been mistaken for someone marked to be cut, and only showing your one real talent will set it right.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 136, "story": 136, "summary": "A doe escaping hunters takes refuge in a lion's cave and is killed there.", "predicament": "Fleeing one danger, you are about to take shelter with someone who may be far more dangerous than what chases you.", "moral": "In avoiding one evil, care must be taken not to fall into another."},
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{"chunk": 137, "story": 137, "summary": "A fisherman refuses to release a small fish that promises to be worth more when grown.", "predicament": "Someone you have caught asks you to let them go now, promising you a much bigger return later.", "moral": null}
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