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": 273, "story": 273, "summary": "A wrestler bitten by a flea calls on Hercules, and wonders what help to expect against greater foes if none comes for a flea.", "predicament": "You keep calling on your powerful backer over every small irritation, and wonder whether they will come when it truly matters.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 274, "story": 274, "summary": "A fox who finds prey for a lion grows jealous of the lion's share, hunts alone, and is caught.", "predicament": "You do the scouting while a stronger partner takes the biggest share, and you are tempted to go it alone.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 275, "story": 275, "summary": "A traveller meets Truth alone in the desert, who says she left the city because falsehood is now with everyone.", "predicament": "Everyone around you now lies as a matter of course, and speaking plainly has left you entirely on your own.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 276, "story": 276, "summary": "A murderer fleeing his victim's kin climbs from a lion into a serpent's tree and jumps into a crocodile's river.", "predicament": "Pursued for a real wrong you did, you find every place you run to is more dangerous than the last.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 277, "story": 277, "summary": "An eagle proposes an alliance, and the lion asks for a surety since the eagle could fly off whenever he likes.", "predicament": "Someone proposes a partnership who could walk away from it at any moment, while you could not.", "moral": "Try before you trust."},
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{"chunk": 278, "story": 278, "summary": "An ass bolts for a precipice, and his owner, unable to hold him by the tail, lets go.", "predicament": "Someone you are responsible for is determined to throw themselves at a ruinous course, and holding them back is hurting you both.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 279, "story": 279, "summary": "A thrush lingers on a myrtle for its berries and is caught by a fowler.", "predicament": "You have been lingering in one pleasant spot because it is so rewarding, and someone has noticed exactly where to find you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 280, "story": 280, "summary": "A wolf waits all day at a cottage door after hearing a mother threaten to throw her child out to him.", "predicament": "Someone made an angry threat in your hearing that seemed to promise you a windfall, and you are waiting for them to follow through.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 281, "story": 281, "summary": "A hen hatches viper eggs, and a swallow warns they will harm everyone, starting with her.", "predicament": "You are carefully nurturing a group of newcomers who, once grown, are likely to turn on everyone, starting with you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 282, "story": 282, "summary": "An amaranth envies the rose, who replies that her beauty is brief while the amaranth never fades.", "predicament": "You envy a colleague's dazzling reputation, and they tell you it will not last while your quieter one will.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 283, "story": 283, "summary": "Travellers resting in a plane tree's shade call it useless, and the tree rebukes them.", "predicament": "People who depend on you every day are, in your hearing, calling you useless because you do not produce anything showy.", "moral": "Some men underrate their best blessings."},
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{"chunk": 284, "story": 284, "summary": "A horse refuses the ass a little feed now but promises a sackful later, and the ass does not believe it.", "predicament": "Someone refuses you a small favour now but promises a much larger one later, and you are asked to be grateful.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 285, "story": 285, "summary": "A crow rides a sheep's back and says she bullies the weak and flatters the strong.", "predicament": "A colleague bullies you freely, and openly admits they would never try it with someone who could bite back.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 286, "story": 286, "summary": "A slipping fox grabs a bramble for help, is torn by it, and is told he should have known its nature.", "predicament": "In a crisis you grabbed for help from someone known to take advantage of everyone, and they have hurt you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 287, "story": 287, "summary": "An ass envies the pampered warhorse until the horse is killed in battle.", "predicament": "You envy how well a favoured colleague is kept, not asking what they are being kept for.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 288, "story": 288, "summary": "A lion ashamed of fearing a cock finds an elephant terrified of a gnat, and is consoled.", "predicament": "You are strong in every way but one small fear, and it shames you so much that you are ready to give up.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 289, "story": 289, "summary": "A dog used to eggs swallows an oyster whole and suffers for thinking everything round is an egg.", "predicament": "Something new looks just like what you are used to handling, and you are about to take it on without a second look.", "moral": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger."},
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{"chunk": 290, "story": 290, "summary": "Robbers wound the proud mule carrying treasure and ignore the one carrying grain.", "predicament": "You are proud to carry the most valuable load and make sure everyone hears it, while a colleague carries theirs quietly.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 291, "story": 291, "summary": "A lamb fleeing a wolf into a temple says being sacrificed there is better than being eaten by him.", "predicament": "Someone chasing you warns that the refuge you are running to will be no kinder to you than they would be.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 292, "story": 292, "summary": "A partridge offers to lure other partridges if spared, and the fowler kills him for it.", "predicament": "You have been caught, and you could save yourself by offering to deliver your colleagues to the one who caught you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 293, "story": 293, "summary": "A man catches a flea who pleads it does little harm, and kills it because no evil should be tolerated.", "predicament": "You have caught someone in a petty offence, and they plead that what they did was too small to matter.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 294, "story": 294, "summary": "A rich man presses his tanner neighbour to move, the tanner stalls, and the rich man grows used to the smell.", "predicament": "A powerful neighbour wants you gone and keeps pressing, and you could keep promising to leave soon without actually going.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 295, "story": 295, "summary": "A viper asks a file for a meal, and the file says he takes from everyone and gives nothing.", "predicament": "You have gone to ask for help from someone well known for taking from everyone and never giving.", "moral": "The covetous are poor givers."},
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{"chunk": 296, "story": 296, "summary": "A shepherd pulls a thorn from a lion's paw, and the lion later spares him in the arena.", "predicament": "Someone dangerous and in pain comes to you for help, and helping them means getting close to their claws.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 297, "story": 297, "summary": "A camel envying the bull's horns asks Jupiter for some and loses part of his ears.", "predicament": "Not content with your strengths, you are asking the boss for a colleague's distinctions too.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 298, "story": 298, "summary": "A panther in a pit, stoned by some shepherds and fed by others, escapes and takes revenge only on his attackers.", "predicament": "Someone dangerous has fallen, and others are pelting them while a few offer help, and you must choose which you will be.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 299, "story": 299, "summary": "A kite boasts he can catch ostriches to win an eagle's hand, and brings her a stale mouse.", "predicament": "Someone courting you for a partnership boasts of what they can deliver, and you have no way yet to check.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 300, "story": 300, "summary": "An eagle freed by a new owner brings him a hare, and a fox advises courting the old owner who clipped him.", "predicament": "A new employer has restored what your old one took from you, and you must decide whom to cultivate.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 301, "story": 301, "summary": "A prince confined because of his father's dream of a lion strikes at a painted lion, is pricked by a thorn and dies.", "predicament": "You have been confined to protect you from a danger someone only dreamed of, and you are raging against it.", "moral": "We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them."},
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{"chunk": 302, "story": 302, "summary": "A cat turned into a woman for love leaps from the bridal couch after a mouse.", "predicament": "You have been given a new, polished role, and an old temptation is about to be dropped in front of you.", "moral": "Nature exceeds nurture."},
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{"chunk": 303, "story": 303, "summary": "A beetle whose young an eagle ate pursues her eggs even into Jupiter's lap until they are broken.", "predicament": "Someone far more powerful destroyed what you cared about, and you could pursue them relentlessly even into their protector's presence.", "moral": "The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though they be more powerful."},
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{"chunk": 304, "story": 304, "summary": "The he-goats complain the she-goats got beards, and Jupiter says an empty badge makes them no equals.", "predicament": "Juniors have been given the same badge of rank as you, and you are tempted to complain to those above.", "moral": "It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit should be like us in outside appearances."},
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{"chunk": 305, "story": 305, "summary": "A bald man slaps his own head at a fly, and says he forgives himself but would kill the fly at any cost.", "predicament": "Someone small keeps needling you, and your efforts to hit back are hurting you more than them.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 306, "story": 306, "summary": "A shipwrecked man blames the sea, who says the winds are to blame for her fury.", "predicament": "You were ruined in a venture and blame the institution, which says it was only stirred up by others.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 307, "story": 307, "summary": "A crowd prefers a buffoon's fake pig squeal to a countryman's real pig, until he shows it.", "predicament": "The crowd has already decided their favourite is better than you, however genuine your work, and you must show them.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 308, "story": 308, "summary": "A hungry crow seizes a sleeping serpent as a windfall and is bitten to death.", "predicament": "You are desperate, and an easy prize seems to have been left lying unguarded right in front of you.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 309, "story": 309, "summary": "A horseman takes a hunter's hare under pretence of buying it and gallops off, and the hunter calls it a gift.", "predicament": "Someone has made off with what you earned, pretending to buy it, and you cannot catch them.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 310, "story": 310, "summary": "An evergreen olive mocks the fig for shedding leaves, and snow breaks the olive but passes through the fig.", "predicament": "A colleague mocks you for scaling back in lean seasons while they keep up appearances all year round.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 311, "story": 311, "summary": "The frogs protest the sun's marriage, fearing that more suns would parch them worse.", "predicament": "Someone who already makes your life hard is about to gain more power, and you could protest before it happens.", "moral": null},
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{"chunk": 312, "story": 312, "summary": "A brazier scolds his dog for sleeping while he works and waking only to beg at dinner.", "predicament": "Someone who dozes through all the work always wakes up just in time to ask for a share of the rewards.", "moral": null}
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