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": 66,
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"story": 5,
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"summary": "The narrator introduces the best officer on the general's staff, a tall, handsome, courteous and fearless newcomer from another regiment, conspicuous in full uniform in action.",
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"predicament": "A gifted newcomer joins a close-knit group whose members know nothing of him, and quickly stands out among them."
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},
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"chunk": 67,
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"story": 5,
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"summary": "The staff grow fond of him but are dismayed that he is vain of his courage: in every battle he refuses to take cover, standing exposed where braver, older men sensibly hide.",
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"predicament": "Someone admired by everyone refuses ever to take cover, and the people who like them watch fearing the worst."
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"chunk": 68,
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"story": 5,
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"summary": "Sent with orders across fire-swept ground, he walks upright instead of running, holding every eye; a fellow officer offers to bet he will be killed before he reaches the ditch.",
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"predicament": "Someone walks upright through danger where everyone else runs, while their own comrades lay bets on how soon they will fall."
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},
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"chunk": 69,
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"story": 5,
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"summary": "He never boasts and turns remonstrance aside with a joke; when the captain who warned him is killed, he tends the body in the middle of a fire-swept road, and his comrades wish he were not a fool.",
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"predicament": "Friends try to talk someone out of needless risks, and are laughed off with a joke they have no answer to."
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{
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"chunk": 70,
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"story": 5,
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"summary": "Sent with a message the long, safe way round, he instead canters into the open field under the enemy's guns; the general shouts to stop him, and the private who tries is killed at once.",
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"predicament": "Someone given a safe way to carry out an order takes the deadly way instead, and another dies trying to stop them."
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},
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"chunk": 71,
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"story": 5,
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"summary": "He rides calmly along the enemy's front; both lines break into a furious battle around him, and he ends up standing alone in the shot-swept space, his horse dead.",
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"predicament": "One person's needless display of courage sets off a fight in which many others die, and now leaves them stranded alone."
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{
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"chunk": 72,
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"story": 5,
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"summary": "Blocked by a gully he could have sheltered in, he will neither advance nor retreat and stands waiting to be killed; both sides stop firing, the enemy honours his body, and a year later the narrator finds a woman's love letter in his pocketbook.",
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"predicament": "Someone who could save themselves by taking cover will not be seen to shelter, and stands still until they are killed."
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{
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"chunk": 73,
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"story": 5,
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"summary": "The letter reveals that a rival had told the woman her lover was seen cowering behind a tree, and that she could bear his death but not his cowardice; the narrator visits her to return it, and she is charming and careless.",
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"predicament": "Someone learns that a person they love would rather see them dead than hear them called a coward."
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{
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"chunk": 74,
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"story": 5,
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"summary": "Seeing the bloodstain, she throws the letter into the fire, saying she cannot bear blood, and asks how he died; the narrator, seeing her beauty and her heartlessness, answers that he was bitten by a snake.",
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"predicament": "Someone faces the person whose careless words drove a friend to his death, and must decide whether to tell them."
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}
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]
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