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JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5 3a4758172d story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3
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
2026-10-07 06:05:51 -04:00

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[
{
"chunk": 142,
"story": 12,
"summary": "A captain stands at the head of his company in a vast line of battle awaiting attack; the narrator contrasts the silent order of the front with the endless confusion of the rear.",
"predicament": "Someone stands in the front rank of a huge crowd waiting for a clash that everyone knows is coming."
},
{
"chunk": 143,
"story": 12,
"summary": "Before him lies a peaceful, empty landscape of fields and woods, yet every man in the line knows he is face to face with death.",
"predicament": "Someone looks out at a calm, empty landscape and knows that death is waiting somewhere in it."
},
{
"chunk": 144,
"story": 12,
"summary": "The captain spent two years of the war in a desk post he hated, refusing promotion out of principle; now at last at the front, he commands veterans who think him a shirker, and is too proud to explain.",
"predicament": "Someone kept from the front through no fault of their own is scorned as a shirker, and is too proud to explain."
},
{
"chunk": 145,
"story": 12,
"summary": "He is exultant, eager to prove himself to his men and to a woman at home; then the first enemy shell shrieks toward the line and he dodges and throws up his hands.",
"predicament": "Someone eager to prove their courage flinches at the very first danger, in front of the people they wanted to impress."
},
{
"chunk": 146,
"story": 12,
"summary": "He sees his lieutenant and his men laughing at him and burns with shame; his idea of war collapses, he trembles and chokes, and fears that what he feels is fear.",
"predicament": "Someone who flinched sees their people laughing at them, and fears that the thing they feel is cowardice."
},
{
"chunk": 147,
"story": 12,
"summary": "Battle begins on the right; rifle fire from the woods kills the man beside him, everyone lies down, and he lies sickened beside the yellowing corpse, unable to turn away without facing from his men.",
"predicament": "Someone who imagined glorious death is forced to lie beside a real one, sickened, with nowhere else to look."
},
{
"chunk": 148,
"story": 12,
"summary": "Staring at the silent wood, imagining the hidden guns, he analyses his feelings instead of fighting and groans aloud in despair at what he finds.",
"predicament": "Someone left with nothing to do but wait turns inward to examine their courage, and is devastated by what they find."
},
{
"chunk": 149,
"story": 12,
"summary": "The line is called to attention and waits for an order to advance that does not come; the delay is unbearable, until he looks at his sword, thinks of it as a Roman blade, and grows suddenly calm.",
"predicament": "Someone at the end of their endurance while waiting for danger suddenly sees a way out that would spare them the shame."
},
{
"chunk": 150,
"story": 12,
"summary": "The sergeant behind him sees a bloody blade spring from his back; he has fallen on his sword and dies. A week later the official report lists the losses as one officer, one man.",
"predicament": "Someone who cannot bear to be thought a coward takes their own life before the danger they dreaded ever arrives."
}
]