JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5
3a4758172d
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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{"chunk": 0, "story": 0, "summary": "A village schoolmistress of thirteen years rides back from town with her monthly pay; the spring morning means nothing to her, and she can imagine no future but the same school and the same road.", "predicament": "A woman who has done the same dull duty for years can no longer imagine any other life for herself."},
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{"chunk": 1, "story": 0, "summary": "She has nearly forgotten her childhood family, and her brother has stopped writing; on the road a wealthy neighbour who once examined her pupils overtakes her cart and greets her.", "predicament": "A woman cut off from the family she came from has almost forgotten she ever had another life."},
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{"chunk": 2, "story": 0, "summary": "The neighbour is a handsome, idle, hard-drinking bachelor who gave her pupils only top marks; she found him attractive and was embarrassed sitting beside him.", "predicament": "A woman of small means is drawn to a charming man above her, and is flustered in his company."},
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{"chunk": 3, "story": 0, "summary": "Jolting along a ruined road, she broods on the officials who ignore her complaints about a violent, rude caretaker, and on how nobody will hear her.", "predicament": "A woman who has complained for years about an abuse at her work finds nobody above her will listen."},
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{"chunk": 4, "story": 0, "summary": "She cannot understand why a rich man would choose to live in this mud; he laughs at the road, says he is bored at home, and thinks his small gifts make him useful.", "predicament": "A struggling woman watches a comfortable man shrug off the hardships she lives with, and wonders why he stays."},
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{"chunk": 5, "story": 0, "summary": "Smelling drink on him, she pities his slow ruin and imagines saving him as his wife, then feels how absurd it is that they could ever be equals; he drives off.", "predicament": "A lonely woman imagines devoting herself to a man above her, then sees how impossible it is that they could ever be equals."},
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{"chunk": 6, "story": 0, "summary": "She reviews her comfortless life: no firewood without begging a coarse overseer, headaches, fear of every official, no affection and no friends.", "predicament": "A woman worn down by a thankless routine feels herself growing old and coarse, with no affection anywhere in her life."},
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{"chunk": 7, "story": 0, "summary": "She took the post from necessity, never felt a vocation, and endures it like a patient cart-horse while livelier people give up; the cart keeps being turned back by fences and ditches.", "predicament": "A woman who took up a hard duty only to live keeps enduring it long after more spirited people have quit."},
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{"chunk": 8, "story": 0, "summary": "At a noisy tavern a drunk swears in front of her, is rebuked, apologises, and the others call her a good young lady; she drinks her tea content.", "predicament": "A woman who feels unvalued among rough company is briefly treated with a little respect, and is glad of it."},
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{"chunk": 9, "story": 0, "summary": "Her driver repeats gossip that officials pocketed money for a school; she denies it, but sees that he, the villagers and the overseer all believe she steals the firewood money too.", "predicament": "A woman who handles other people's small sums finds they all quietly believe she is cheating them."},
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{"chunk": 10, "story": 0, "summary": "Her driver insists on fording the swollen river rather than taking the bridge the rich neighbour uses, and the horse wades in up to its belly.", "predicament": "A woman at the mercy of a stubborn companion is dragged through a needless hardship to save a little time."},
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{"chunk": 11, "story": 0, "summary": "Soaked and with her supplies ruined, she waits at the railway crossing; a lady on the passing train looks like her mother, and for a moment her whole lost childhood returns.", "predicament": "A worn-out woman glimpses a stranger who recalls the life she lost, and is flooded with longing for it."},
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{"chunk": 12, "story": 0, "summary": "Weeping, she imagines happiness and greets the passing neighbour as an equal, as if the years had been a dream, until her driver calls her and it all vanishes.", "predicament": "A woman caught up in a sudden dream of happiness is called back to her ordinary life, and the feeling vanishes."}
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