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": 228, "story": 228, "summary": "A country mouse visits his friend's rich town house, is chased from every meal, and goes back to his safe plain fare.", "predicament": "A well-off friend urges you to leave your plain, safe post for their lavish one, where every meal comes with a fright.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 229, "story": 229, "summary": "An ape judging a wolf's theft charge against a fox rules that the wolf lost nothing and the fox stole anyway.", "predicament": "You must settle a dispute between two people with bad reputations, and you believe neither of their accounts.", "moral": "The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit."},
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{"chunk": 230, "story": 230, "summary": "Wasps and partridges promise a farmer service for water, and he says his oxen already do it without promises.", "predicament": "Newcomers promise you great service in return for a favour now, while your steady workers already do it without promising.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 231, "story": 231, "summary": "A father tells his vain son and plain, spiteful daughter both to look in the mirror daily, to mind their conduct.", "predicament": "Two people in your care are at odds, one vain of their gifts and the other spiteful for lacking them, and both appeal.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 232, "story": 232, "summary": "Dogs tear at a lion's skin, and a fox says they would learn a lion's claws if it were alive.", "predicament": "Someone who once ruled over you is gone for good, and everyone is now bravely tearing into their reputation.", "moral": "It is easy to kick a man that is down."},
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{"chunk": 233, "story": 233, "summary": "A blind man feeling a wolf cub cannot say if it is fox or wolf, but knows it must not go in the sheepfold.", "predicament": "You are asked to vouch for a young newcomer whose record is unclear, but whose instincts are plainly those of a predator.", "moral": "Evil tendencies are shown in early life."},
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{"chunk": 234, "story": 234, "summary": "A failed cobbler poses as a doctor with a cure-all, and confesses when the governor tests him with 'poison'.", "predicament": "Your reputation as an expert was built on noise rather than skill, and someone powerful is about to test it on you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 235, "story": 235, "summary": "A wolf says he left a field of oats untouched for the horse, who says he would not if wolves ate oats.", "predicament": "Someone with a bad reputation makes a show of having saved something for you that they could never have used themselves.", "moral": "Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get credit for it."},
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{"chunk": 236, "story": 236, "summary": "Two enemies on a sinking ship sit at opposite ends, and one is content if his enemy's end sinks first.", "predicament": "You and a bitter enemy are going down together, and you care more about seeing them fall first than about saving yourself.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 237, "story": 237, "summary": "A partridge pecked by gamecocks thinks it is because he is a stranger, until he sees them fight each other.", "predicament": "You are new and the old hands keep attacking you, and you assume it is because you are an outsider.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 238, "story": 238, "summary": "A fox reviles a caged lion, who says it is his mischance, not the fox, that insults him.", "predicament": "Someone powerful is trapped by circumstances for now, and it is tempting to insult them while they cannot answer.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 239, "story": 239, "summary": "A frog proclaims himself a physician, and a fox asks why he cannot cure his own gait and skin.", "predicament": "Someone offers to fix everyone else's problems, while their own obvious failings are there for all to see.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 240, "story": 240, "summary": "A wolf accuses the absent fox to the sick lion, and the fox prescribes the wolf's warm skin as the cure.", "predicament": "A rival is denouncing you to the boss just as you walk in, and you could turn the boss's anger back on them.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 241, "story": 241, "summary": "A dog curled against winter cold plans a house, but stretched out in summer thinks one too big a job.", "predicament": "In hard times you resolved to build yourself some security, and now that times are easy it seems too big a job.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 242, "story": 242, "summary": "The north wind blows in vain to strip a traveller's cloak, and the sun's warmth makes him take it off.", "predicament": "You need someone to give something up, and the harder you push the tighter they cling to it.", "moral": "Persuasion is better than Force."},
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{"chunk": 243, "story": 243, "summary": "A crow breaks his vow to Apollo after being freed, and when caught again Mercury will not believe his new vow.", "predicament": "You broke your promise to the last person who got you out of trouble, and now you need a new patron to trust you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 244, "story": 244, "summary": "A fox serves a crane soup in a flat dish, and the crane repays him with a narrow-necked jar.", "predicament": "Someone humiliated you with a show of hospitality you could not use, and now it is your turn to host them.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 245, "story": 245, "summary": "A wolf seeing his long evening shadow thinks he should be king, and a lion kills him.", "predicament": "Things are going so well that you feel bigger than the people above you and start to think you deserve their place.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 246, "story": 246, "summary": "A bat fights for whichever side, birds or beasts, is winning, and after peace both condemn him.", "predicament": "Two factions are at war, and you could keep switching to whichever side is winning at the moment.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 247, "story": 247, "summary": "A spendthrift sells his last cloak on seeing an early swallow, and the frost returns.", "predicament": "Having run through almost everything, you see an early sign of good times and are tempted to sell your last safeguard.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 248, "story": 248, "summary": "A captured trumpeter pleads he carried no weapon, and his captors say his trumpet roused all the others.", "predicament": "You are caught on the losing side and plead that you never did harm yourself, only urged others on.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 249, "story": 249, "summary": "The birds scorn the owl's warnings about acorns, flax and archers until they come true.", "predicament": "You warned your group early about dangers others could not yet see, and they called you mad.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 250, "story": 250, "summary": "Driven out by the ills, the goods ask Jupiter for protection, and he sends them to men one at a time.", "predicament": "Troubles keep arriving together while good things come one at a time, and you must learn to spot the good when it comes.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 251, "story": 251, "summary": "An ass in a lion's skin frightens the foolish beasts until a fox hears him bray.", "predicament": "You have borrowed the trappings of real authority and are enjoying frightening people, and now you meet someone who listens.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 252, "story": 252, "summary": "A sparrow mocks a hare seized by an eagle and is himself taken by a hawk.", "predicament": "A colleague has just been brought down, and it is tempting to mock them for failing, as if it could not happen to you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 253, "story": 253, "summary": "A flea asks why the ox slaves for men, and the ox says he is loved and patted, while a pat means the flea's death.", "predicament": "A freeloader asks why you work so hard for your employer when they themselves take freely and give nothing.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 254, "story": 254, "summary": "A buyer returns an ass on trial because it at once joined the laziest ass in the yard.", "predicament": "You are new and on trial, and the first thing you do is choose whom to fall in with.", "moral": "A man is known by the company he keeps."},
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{"chunk": 255, "story": 255, "summary": "A caged dove boasts of her many young, and a crow says that only means more of them in prison.", "predicament": "You boast of how many people you have brought into the organisation, when all of them are stuck there with you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 256, "story": 256, "summary": "A satyr breaks his friendship with a man who blows on his hands to warm them and on his food to cool it.", "predicament": "Your new ally has watched you argue both sides of the same question within a day, and is doubting you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 257, "story": 257, "summary": "Momus, made judge of the gods' works, envies and faults all three, and is expelled.", "predicament": "You have been asked to judge between colleagues' work, and your envy is tempting you to find fault with all of it.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 258, "story": 258, "summary": "A jackdaw envious of an eagle tries to carry off a ram, gets caught in the fleece, and is clipped and given to children.", "predicament": "You watched a star performer pull off a feat and are about to try an even bigger one yourself, without their strength.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 259, "story": 259, "summary": "An eagle steals her neighbour fox's cub, and later her own young burn in a nest fired by a stolen cinder.", "predicament": "A powerful neighbour who swore friendship has taken something precious from you, and you cannot reach them to answer it.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 260, "story": 260, "summary": "Every man carries a bag of his neighbours' faults in front and a bigger bag of his own behind.", "predicament": "You see a colleague's faults very clearly and are ready to point them out, without looking at your own.", "moral": "Hence it is that men are quick to see the faults of others, and yet are often blind to their own failings."},
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{"chunk": 261, "story": 261, "summary": "A bitch granted a place to whelp later uses her grown pups to bar the shepherd from it.", "predicament": "Someone you let use your space for a while has built up a following and now claims it as their own.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 262, "story": 262, "summary": "A stag admires his antlers and despises his thin legs, which save him until the antlers catch in a thicket.", "predicament": "You prize your showy strengths and are ashamed of your plain ones, and trouble is coming that will test which matters.", "moral": "What is most truly valuable is often underrated."},
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{"chunk": 263, "story": 263, "summary": "A lark born before the earth, with nowhere to bury her father, buries him in her own head.", "predicament": "You owe a duty of respect to someone who has gone, and there is no proper place to pay it but within yourself.", "moral": "Youth’s first duty is reverence to parents."},
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{"chunk": 264, "story": 264, "summary": "A gnat asks a bull if he should leave, and the bull says he never noticed him come.", "predicament": "You are making a show of whether to leave, sure your departure will be felt, and you may not have been noticed at all.", "moral": "Some men are of more consequence in their own eyes than in the eyes of their neighbors."},
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{"chunk": 265, "story": 265, "summary": "A camel envious of the monkey's applauded dance tries to dance and is driven out.", "predicament": "A colleague's performance has just been loudly applauded, and you are tempted to get up and try to outdo them.", "moral": "It is absurd to ape our betters."},
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{"chunk": 266, "story": 266, "summary": "Hungry dogs try to drink a river dry to reach hides in it and burst.", "predicament": "Your group has agreed on a plan to reach something it wants that would require doing the impossible.", "moral": "Attempt not impossibilities."},
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{"chunk": 267, "story": 267, "summary": "A hungry jackdaw waits on a fig tree for out-of-season figs to ripen.", "predicament": "You are waiting, hungry, for a promise that is out of season to come good, and someone tells you it never will.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 268, "story": 268, "summary": "An honest woodman is given gold and silver axes, and a neighbour who lies to get the same loses his own axe.", "predicament": "A colleague was rewarded for honesty in a lucky accident, and you could stage the same accident and claim the reward.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 269, "story": 269, "summary": "A peasant ignores the pleas of birds to spare his barren tree, but spares it on finding honey inside.", "predicament": "You are about to cut something that has not paid its way, and those who depend on it beg you to spare it.", "moral": "Self-interest alone moves some men."},
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{"chunk": 270, "story": 270, "summary": "A soldier who fled a robber returns boasting after his comrade has killed him, and is rebuked.", "predicament": "You ran when your partner was in danger, and now that it is over you are tempted to boast of your courage.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 271, "story": 271, "summary": "A shepherd shakes down acorns onto his cloak, and the sheep eating them tear it.", "predicament": "The people you work to provide for have carelessly damaged something of yours while taking what you gave them.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 272, "story": 272, "summary": "The gods choose fruitless trees so as not to seem covetous, and Minerva prefers the olive for its fruit.", "predicament": "Your peers choose honours that look disinterested, and you would rather be known for work that is plainly useful.", "moral": null}
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