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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": 167,
"story": 15,
"summary": "A shack shaped like a face stands on a poor hillside terrace; every day at exactly two o'clock a well-dressed man steps out of its door and checks his watch.",
"predicament": "Someone living in poverty keeps a strange daily ritual with exact punctuality, and nobody around them knows why."
},
{
"chunk": 168,
"story": 15,
"summary": "He walks round a block, staring over his shoulder at a dusty upper window of a factory where nothing ever appears, and returns home, where his wife, a washerwoman who supports them both, helps him in.",
"predicament": "Someone walks past the same empty window every day in hope, while a devoted spouse quietly supports them."
},
{
"chunk": 169,
"story": 15,
"summary": "The man, prematurely aged, is kept neatly dressed by his wife's scanty earnings; thirty years before, the couple were rich, cultivated and apparently happy, and she was proud of him.",
"predicament": "A devoted spouse spends everything keeping up the appearance of the person they married, long after their fortune is gone."
},
{
"chunk": 170,
"story": 15,
"summary": "The husband fell in love with a visiting friend's wife; caught leaving her house at night, he tried to bribe the policeman and gave a false name, with only her jewelled portrait on him.",
"predicament": "Someone caught leaving a lover's home at night takes the blame for a crime rather than let the truth come out."
},
{
"chunk": 171,
"story": 15,
"summary": "His wife finds him in prison under a false name, and in a private interview he bends her to his will; she leaves broken-hearted, keeps his secret, and then disappears herself.",
"predicament": "Someone discovers the person they married has betrayed them, and is persuaded to help keep the betrayal secret."
},
{
"chunk": 172,
"story": 15,
"summary": "He pleads guilty; the lover, ill, twice refuses to testify, tears up her statement, embraces her children in tears, and finally swears she knows nothing and faints.",
"predicament": "Someone must swear to a lie that will send the person they love to prison, or ruin their own family."
},
{
"chunk": 173,
"story": 15,
"summary": "He is sentenced to three years, his lawyer having made no defence; on release his wife meets him at the gate and they go abroad, selling everything.",
"predicament": "Someone who kept silent to protect a lover serves their sentence, and the spouse they betrayed is waiting at the gate."
},
{
"chunk": 174,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Years later they return, broken in fortune and health, living quietly under another name; the wife is endlessly devoted and cheerful, and he is sunk in dejection.",
"predicament": "Someone ruined by a love affair is cared for devotedly by the spouse they betrayed, and remains sunk in misery."
},
{
"chunk": 175,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Wandering one day, he sees his former lover at a window; she cries out, leans out too far and falls to her death, and he sits on the pavement cradling her broken body.",
"predicament": "Someone meets the person they gave up everything for by chance, and the meeting ends in disaster in front of a crowd."
},
{
"chunk": 176,
"story": 15,
"summary": "The lover's husband, understanding everything, leaves for good; the man spends a year in an asylum with his wife caring for him, and they move near the factory so he can make his daily pilgrimage to the window.",
"predicament": "A devoted spouse gives up everything to care for a partner who still mourns someone else every day."
}
]