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": 256,
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"story": 22,
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"summary": "A farm boy, lost at midnight while searching for missing cows, follows a bridle path through a dark forest and sees a light near a deserted house.",
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"predicament": "Someone lost alone at night sees a light where no light should be, in a place with a bad name."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 257,
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"story": 22,
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"summary": "The house is reputed haunted, and the boy himself once helped smash its windows; shaking with fear and guilt, he refuses to turn back and walks past.",
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"predicament": "Someone who once mocked what they feared must pass it alone at night, and refuses to turn back."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 258,
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"story": 22,
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"summary": "Through the window he sees a man staring motionless at a table and believes him dead; he pushes his face into the window, an owl shrieks, the man leaps up and puts out the candle, and the boy flees. The previous morning, a writer finds a friend reading his ghost story on a streetcar.",
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"predicament": "Someone frightened out of their wits forces themselves closer to look, and a sudden noise sends everyone fleeing."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 259,
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"story": 22,
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"summary": "The writer says his friend is ruining his own pleasure by reading a ghost story on a streetcar, likening it to hearing an opera in an office.",
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"predicament": "Someone takes offence that a friend enjoys their work casually, and starts to lecture them about it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 260,
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"story": 22,
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"summary": "He insists that an author has a right to the reader's undivided attention, growing so vehement that the friend notices his pallor and burning eyes.",
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"predicament": "A friend's small grievance swells into fury out of all proportion, and the other begins to wonder what is wrong."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 261,
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"story": 22,
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"summary": "He says a ghost story must be read alone, at night, by candlelight, if it is to produce the fear the author intends.",
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"predicament": "Someone insists that others meet their exact conditions before their work can be fairly judged at all, and grows heated about it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 262,
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"story": 22,
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"summary": "The friend, suspecting the writer takes opium, teases him by asking whether the story could really frighten him; the writer says he would not dare to read it alone in a deserted house, and that he has a manuscript that would kill him.",
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"predicament": "Someone is told to their face that they lack the courage to face something alone, and the taunt stings."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 263,
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"story": 22,
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"summary": "Stung, the friend accepts the dare to read the manuscript alone at night in the deserted house. The next day three men and the boy go there, mocking his story, and find a dead body.",
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"predicament": "Someone accepts a dare to prove their courage alone at night, and is found dead the next day."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 264,
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"story": 22,
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"summary": "The men admit the boy was right; one reads the manuscript found by the body, which begins as a suicide note.",
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"predicament": "A child nobody believed is proved right in the worst way, and the doubters have to admit it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 265,
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"story": 22,
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"summary": "The manuscript is the writer's declaration that he will kill himself at midnight on the anniversary of the day his friend, the house's former owner, killed himself in fulfilment of a vow between them.",
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"predicament": "Someone bound by a terrible old pledge to a dead friend feels obliged to follow them into death."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 266,
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"story": 22,
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"summary": "A postscript tells the reader the writer will come for him after midnight; a relative of the dead friend burns the paper; a newspaper reports the writer has been committed to an asylum after being found sharpening a razor.",
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"predicament": "Someone who set out to prove another's courage has frightened them to death, and ends up mad themselves."
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}
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]
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