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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{
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"chunk": 151,
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"story": 13,
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"summary": "The narrator, a map-maker on a brigade staff, describes an unsociable new aide nobody liked, and his own dangerous work surveying close to enemy lines.",
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"predicament": "An aloof newcomer joins a hard-pressed group that does not take to them, while everyone else is too busy to care."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 152,
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"story": 13,
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"summary": "The new aide asks to come along on a hazardous survey; the narrator gruffly asks in what capacity, and the aide says as a spectator, handing his sword and pistols to his servant. The narrator regrets his rudeness.",
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"predicament": "A rude remark to a newcomer is taken so literally that they disarm themselves to go into danger, and the speaker cannot apologise."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 153,
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"story": 13,
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"summary": "Under fire, the aide sits in the open road with folded arms; his horse is killed, and he stands unarmed before a charging trooper until a lucky bullet drops his attacker. The narrator later apologises.",
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"predicament": "Someone disarmed by another's careless words stands in the open facing death with folded arms, too proud to retreat."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 154,
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"story": 13,
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"summary": "In a later assault the aide is lost and found badly wounded; a captured enemy soldier says he walked straight into their line and, with rifles at his chest, folded his arms and refused to surrender.",
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"predicament": "Someone surrounded by enemies with weapons pointed at them is ordered to surrender, and simply refuses."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 155,
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"story": 13,
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"summary": "At the mess, a stammering quartermaster suggests the aide's folded arms are his way of mastering an urge to run; the narrator angrily defends him. Later the aide learns a giant camp swing and swings higher than anyone dares.",
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"predicament": "Someone's extraordinary courage is whispered to be a way of mastering fear, and they go looking for ever greater danger."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 156,
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"story": 13,
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"summary": "He drives the swing ever higher until he is nearly horizontal; everyone shouts at him to stop, a woman faints, crowds gather, and suddenly the shouting stops.",
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"predicament": "Someone pushes a reckless feat further and further while everyone watching begs them to stop, and they will not."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 157,
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"story": 13,
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"summary": "He lets go of the rope and flies up past a branch, then pitches down with a sickening impact; the hardened soldiers turn sick, and his body lies broken with its arms folded across the breast.",
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"predicament": "Someone who faced every danger with defiance meets a senseless end in front of hardened witnesses who cannot bear to look."
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}
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]
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