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": 236,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "A white-haired stranger arrives unnoticed at a mining camp that was deserted two years ago, after the man whose tall tales of gold drew thousands there was shot on the third day.",
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"predicament": "Someone arrives alone at a place everyone else abandoned long ago, with a private reason for coming back."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 237,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "The abandoned camp is a wreck of skeleton shanties, rotting flumes, torn ground, old boots and bottles.",
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"predicament": "Someone looks over the wreckage of a place where thousands once pinned their hopes on a lie."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 238,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "The stranger ignores the ruins, goes to a hill, searches among the ground until he finds what he seeks, and stakes out a mining claim according to the local law.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has come a long way on a secret tip quietly stakes their claim before anyone else can."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 239,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "The hill is the camp's cemetery, which grew as the camp shrank, complete with a hanging tree and a dangling rope; he has staked his claim among the densest graves.",
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"predicament": "Someone stakes their fortune on digging up ground where the dead lie buried, and means to go through with it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 240,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "Six years before, he left his fiancée in the East, who told him he never succeeded at anything and would not come back alive.",
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"predicament": "Someone leaves the person they love to seek their fortune, sent off with a prediction that they will fail."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 241,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "She took up with a gambler who slashed her face; she wrote renouncing the engagement and sent a photograph of her scarred face, but he held to her more firmly out of honour. Then her letters stopped.",
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"predicament": "Someone learns the person they are pledged to has been disfigured and released them, and stays faithful out of honour."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 242,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "An old drinking friend, now a gravedigger, wrote to him in miners' slang; he tucked the letter away unread for two years, then found and read it.",
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"predicament": "Someone discovers years late that a friend once wrote to offer them a secret fortune, and they never answered."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 243,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "The letter said the gravedigger had struck a rich gold ledge while digging a grave and hidden it by burying a notorious woman above it; the gravedigger has since drunk himself to death. The claimant calls her a holy terror.",
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"predicament": "Someone inherits the secret of a buried fortune from a dead friend, and must dig through a grave to reach it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 244,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "He knows the dead woman only from campfire gossip and a comic obituary; repeating that she was a holy terror, as if to justify himself, he sinks his pick into her grave, and a raven croaks.",
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"predicament": "Someone about to desecrate a grave tells themselves the dead person deserved no better, to quiet their conscience."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 245,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "Digging feverishly into the night, he stands the coffin on end in the grave and is terrified by his own shadow falling on it, then tries to master his fear by moving his head.",
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"predicament": "Someone driven by greed to work alone among the dead at night is startled by their own shadow, and cannot shake the fear."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 246,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "He sees that the coffin was buried upside down, the woman face downward.",
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"predicament": "Someone alone at night with the dead notices something wrong about the burial that nobody ever explained."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 247,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "The absurd discovery overwhelms him with terror; he cannot breathe or move.",
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"predicament": "Someone known for their daring is frozen by a terror that is half absurd, and cannot move or cry out."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 248,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "His senses return oddly sharp but blind to the coffin; he notices the tree, the rope and the coyotes, smells something sickening, and a raven drops past his face.",
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"predicament": "Someone overwhelmed by dread goes numb to its cause and notices everything else, until something startles them back."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 249,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "He imagines the rotted corpse behind the lid and, for the first time that day, thinks of his fiancée's photograph, contrasting her beauty with the dead face.",
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"predicament": "Someone imagining the horror behind a closed lid finds their thoughts turning to the person they love most."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 250,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "He links the disfigured photograph with the dead woman's nickname, which spoke of a disfigurement, and becomes convinced the woman in the coffin is his fiancée.",
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"predicament": "Someone becomes convinced, on the flimsiest of links, that the horror before them is the person they love."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 251,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "The coffin seems to advance; he strikes the plate with his knife hilt, the rotten lid falls away, and he is face to face with the dead woman, shrieking.",
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"predicament": "Someone who can no longer bear imagining the worst forces it open to look, and the sight destroys them."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 252,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "Months later, a rich society party passes through; the leader, once a gambler in the camp who narrowly escaped hanging there, shows his wife and friends the hanging tree.",
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"predicament": "Someone who escaped disgrace and rose to wealth returns carelessly to the scene of their shady past, with company."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 253,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "They pass the picked skeleton of a donkey still tethered beside a miner's kit, and at the tree the millionaire playfully loops the old rope round his neck, horrifying his wife.",
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"predicament": "Someone who once nearly met a shameful end makes light of it in front of people who know nothing of their past."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 254,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "They find an open grave with two skulls and a broken coffin; a young man jumps in, and the millionaire reads aloud the coffin plate with its coarse epitaph for a local woman.",
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"predicament": "Sightseers treat an old tragedy as entertainment, making a show of the remains while the most delicate among them protests."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 255,
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"story": 21,
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"summary": "The millionaire dismisses a glittering rock as fool's gold; his wife, alone, pockets a wallet from an old coat and finds her own letters and photographs addressed to her former fiancé, and she is found dead, her scarred face white.",
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"predicament": "Someone who abandoned a faithful partner long ago stumbles on proof of how they died, and it kills them."
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}
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]
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