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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69 lines
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"chunk": 35,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "An advancing army halts at the edge of a wood before open country and a stone wall on a distant crest; after days of fighting the enemy has vanished, and nobody knows whether they wait behind the wall.",
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"predicament": "A large group must cross open ground toward a place where an enemy may be waiting, and nobody knows whether they are."
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},
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"chunk": 36,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "The narrator reflects on how strange the enemy's leavings seem, and reads from the tracks that the enemy withdrew in good order up the hill rather than fleeing.",
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"predicament": "People who have fought an unseen enemy for days study the signs they left, trying to guess whether they are truly gone."
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},
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"chunk": 37,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "The commander orders the skirmish line forward; a young officer in full dress on a white horse with a scarlet blanket gallops up, and the whole line laughs at his vanity.",
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"predicament": "A showy young newcomer rides in front of hardened veterans, who laugh at him as a vain fool."
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"chunk": 38,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "The young officer asks the commander something the older man is reluctant to grant, then rides alone at a walk straight toward the wall; the skirmishers are halted, and the watching army is stirred to adoration and shame for having laughed.",
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"predicament": "Someone the crowd mocked a moment ago volunteers to walk alone toward almost certain death so that the others need not."
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"chunk": 39,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "The whole army watches in silence; the horseman swerves toward a break in the wall, meaning to ride through and see what lies beyond.",
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"predicament": "Someone takes a mortal risk alone while a whole crowd holds its breath, unable to do anything but watch."
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"chunk": 40,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "The narrator explains that skirmishers sent to find out whether the enemy holds the ridge would be slaughtered; the young officer is paying the price alone.",
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"predicament": "The only way to learn whether danger waits ahead is to send someone into it, and one person offers to pay the whole price."
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"chunk": 41,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "He could surrender and live, but that would answer nothing; for his errand to succeed he must either return unharmed or be shot dead before his comrades' eyes.",
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"predicament": "Someone on a lonely errand could save themselves by giving up, but that would make the whole sacrifice worthless."
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{
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"chunk": 42,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "Having seen the enemy line, he gallops back and forth along the crest trying to force the hidden troops to reveal themselves by firing on him, while they hold their fire.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has found out the truth cannot bring word back, so they try to force the enemy to reveal it themselves."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 43,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "He dashes at the wall, then turns and races back; the wall erupts in rifle fire and artillery, he survives the first volley to a great cheer, and shells begin falling among the watching troops.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has drawn every enemy weapon onto themselves races for home while their comrades cheer and the danger spreads to them."
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{
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"chunk": 44,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "His horse is killed; he stands and salutes with his sabre before he falls, and his comrades, choking with emotion, surge forward against orders into the enemy's fire.",
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"predicament": "A crowd moved by one person's sacrifice rushes forward against orders, throwing away the very lives it was meant to save."
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{
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"chunk": 45,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "The commander, unmoved, sounds the halt; the lines fall back carrying their wounded and the dead, and the narrator laments the many needless deaths and the hero's vain devotion.",
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"predicament": "Someone in command must call back a crowd carried away by grief, knowing the sacrifice that inspired them was wasted."
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}
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]
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