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": 211,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "In a dusty upper room of an empty house, a body lies under a sheet on a kitchen table beside a candle, an armchair and a reading-stand, with the windows shut and blinds drawn.",
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"predicament": "A body has been laid out behind sealed doors in an empty building, as if for some purpose not yet explained."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 212,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "A man enters, the door is locked behind him, he finds the windows barred, and he calmly sits down with a book.",
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"predicament": "Someone is locked in overnight with a corpse, finds there is no way out, and settles down as if unconcerned."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 213,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "The young man, resolute-looking, reads composedly for half an hour, glancing occasionally at the body, then moves the stand aside and returns to his chair.",
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"predicament": "Someone determined to show no fear keeps a calm watch over the dead, glancing at it now and then."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 214,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "He inspects the face under the sheet, pockets matches and blows out the short candle to save it. Elsewhere, three young doctors over punch discuss whether fear of the dead is inherited and incurable.",
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"predicament": "Someone alone with the dead chooses to sit in darkness to save their last light, while others idly debate human fear."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 215,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "The host says anyone locked alone all night in the dark with a corpse would crack; the student says he knows a fearless stranger who would take that on for any stake.",
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"predicament": "A careless boast about someone else's courage turns into a dare that another person will have to face alone."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 216,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "The host accepts the wager, and the third doctor offers to play the corpse. In the dark room, the watcher cannot sleep and tells himself he stays in his chair out of respect for the dead.",
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"predicament": "Someone alone in the dark with a corpse cannot sleep, and invents polite reasons for not daring to move."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 217,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "He hears a faint sound from the table and holds his breath until he nearly faints; angry, he gropes round the room in the dark and knocks over the stand.",
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"predicament": "Someone who prides themselves on courage catches themselves holding their breath in terror at a sound, and is furious."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 218,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "He relights the candle, finds nothing changed, checks and bolts the door, sees that only half an hour has passed, and blows the candle out again.",
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"predicament": "Someone enduring a terrible night checks that nothing has changed, and finds that almost no time has passed."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 219,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "He berates himself as a sceptic who will not lose his bet and self-respect to savage superstition, and then hears soft footsteps approaching behind him. At dawn the host and the student drive toward the house.",
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"predicament": "Someone who does not believe the dead can walk hears footsteps coming toward them in the dark."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 220,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "The host admits he regrets the wager, which pride pushed him into; the fake corpse is their friend, and as they reach the house a man runs past looking for a doctor.",
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"predicament": "People who set up a cruel dare for their own amusement arrive to find it has gone badly wrong."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 221,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "A crowd is gathering at the house; the student wants to flee and lie low, but the doctor says a physician may be needed and goes in.",
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"predicament": "Someone whose prank has gone wrong must choose between slipping away unseen and going in to face what they caused."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 222,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "A wild, white-haired man bursts down the stairs, beating his way through the crowd, and flees into the street; the student calls out the watcher's name and is dragged back.",
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"predicament": "Someone sees the person they put up to a dare burst out transformed by terror, and must not be seen to know them."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 223,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "Upstairs, a doctor examines the body on the table, face contorted and frothing, pronounces it six hours dead, and calls for the coroner.",
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"predicament": "Someone whose prank went wrong looks on while a stranger declares a friend dead, and cannot say a word."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 224,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "The police clear the room; the student says the watcher has killed their friend, and the two agree to leave for Europe that afternoon.",
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"predicament": "People whose game ended in a death agree without a word of it to flee before anyone connects them."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 225,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "Seven years later a white-haired stranger approaches the two in a park, and reveals he is their friend who played the corpse, not the watcher.",
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"predicament": "People who ran from a death they caused years ago are confronted by someone they believed long dead."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 226,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "He says he rose from the table to frighten the watcher, who died of fright; he changed clothes with the body and was never let out. He is now mad, and the two are gamblers.",
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"predicament": "Someone whose cruel joke killed a person was driven mad by it, and blames the friends who left them to it."
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}
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]
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