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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": 158,
"story": 14,
"summary": "A Union private sits against a pine deep in the forest, far outside the lines, looking as if he were asleep.",
"predicament": "Someone alone and far outside the safety of their own side sits brooding, where being caught could mean death."
},
{
"chunk": 159,
"story": 14,
"summary": "He is troubled by the previous night, when he stood sentry at a lonely post in this forest on an over-extended picket line.",
"predicament": "Someone cannot stop turning over what happened on a night they were left alone to keep watch in the dark."
},
{
"chunk": 160,
"story": 14,
"summary": "In the darkness he walked round his tree and lost his bearings, not knowing where the enemy or his own camp lay; then he heard a figure approaching and challenged it.",
"predicament": "Someone on watch loses all sense of direction in the dark, just as a figure comes toward them and will not answer."
},
{
"chunk": 161,
"story": 14,
"summary": "He fired; the whole jumpy picket line fired and ran, but he, not knowing which way to run, stayed put and was praised for bravery. Sure he hit someone but finding no body, he kept quiet.",
"predicament": "Someone is praised for courage they did not show, and keeps quiet about what really happened."
},
{
"chunk": 162,
"story": 14,
"summary": "Granted a pass as a reward for his supposed bravery, he goes back to search for the person he believes he shot, penetrates deep into enemy country, and finally sits down, disappointed.",
"predicament": "Someone who fears they killed a person in the dark goes back alone into danger to find out for certain."
},
{
"chunk": 163,
"story": 14,
"summary": "He reflects that he is in a false position, praised for acts he did not perform, and that telling the truth would sound like a lie; he wishes he could find his man, and falls asleep.",
"predicament": "Someone praised for something they did not do sees that the truth would sound like a lie, and cannot decide what to say."
},
{
"chunk": 164,
"story": 14,
"summary": "He dreams of a happy childhood by a great river with his beloved twin brother, their widowed mother and a mocking-bird whose song filled everything.",
"predicament": "Someone far from home dreams of a lost childhood and the person closest to them, before they were separated."
},
{
"chunk": 165,
"story": 14,
"summary": "In the dream their mother dies, the brothers are parted to feuding relatives on opposite sides of the river, the bird goes with the brother, and their letters stop; he wakes at sunset.",
"predicament": "Someone remembers how they lost touch with the person closest to them when their family was split between enemies."
},
{
"chunk": 166,
"story": 14,
"summary": "Walking back, he hears a mocking-bird and weeps, then finds in a thicket the body of his twin brother in enemy uniform, shot the night before; he never answers roll-call again.",
"predicament": "Someone searching for the stranger they killed in the dark finds it was the person they loved most."
}
]