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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{"chunk": 13, "story": 1, "summary": "Two friends persuade a scrupulous law student to come with them to a street of brothels; he knows fallen women only from books and pious stories, and goes reluctantly.", "predicament": "A scrupulous young man lets his friends talk him into an outing he knows only from books and privately disapproves of."},
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{"chunk": 14, "story": 1, "summary": "Walking out in the first snow, the three stop for vodka; he peers at a bit of cork in his glass and his friend tells him to stop philosophising and live like a human being for one evening.", "predicament": "A cautious young man is teased by livelier companions for brooding when he is meant to be enjoying himself."},
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{"chunk": 15, "story": 1, "summary": "Warmed by drink, he envies his friends' easy, balanced cheerfulness and resolves to let himself go for one evening, whatever it costs him.", "predicament": "A man who weighs every step envies his carefree friends and decides, just once, to stop holding himself back."},
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{"chunk": 16, "story": 1, "summary": "Humming a song with his friends, he enjoys the snowy night and imagines a dark, secret, dreadful encounter with a guilty, frightened woman.", "predicament": "A young man about to try something forbidden pictures it as dark and thrilling, and cannot wait to see it."},
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{"chunk": 17, "story": 1, "summary": "The street turns out brightly lit and noisy, with everyone indifferent to it; his friends clown their way into the first house.", "predicament": "A newcomer finds that a place he imagined as shameful and secret is treated as utterly ordinary by everyone around him."},
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{"chunk": 18, "story": 1, "summary": "His friends bow and joke their way into the parlour; he hangs back smiling awkwardly as young women arrive one by one.", "predicament": "A self-conscious man trails his confident friends into a strange place, wishing he could play the fool as easily."},
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{"chunk": 19, "story": 1, "summary": "He finds everything tawdry and ordinary, politely buys a girl a drink he will not share, and is scolded by a friend for being fleeced.", "predicament": "A man too polite to refuse is taken advantage of, then scolded by his friend for being so easily fleeced."},
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{"chunk": 20, "story": 1, "summary": "In house after house he fixates on the doormen, wondering what lives brought them there; one friend gets drunk and demands they go on to 'the best one'.", "predicament": "A man dragged along by a drunken friend distracts himself by wondering what brought the people around him so low."},
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{"chunk": 21, "story": 1, "summary": "His friends dance; he decides the ugliness is a deliberate style, sneers inwardly at how clumsily the women sell themselves, and tells one he is dull because it is dull.", "predicament": "A bored and disgusted guest sits apart from the fun, silently judging everyone in the room while his friends enjoy themselves."},
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{"chunk": 22, "story": 1, "summary": "He wants to ask a woman about her life and family but cannot find words; she jokes, says something coarse aloud, and keeps asking him to buy wine.", "predicament": "A well-meaning man longs to ask a stranger about her real life, but cannot find a way that is not insulting."},
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{"chunk": 23, "story": 1, "summary": "Repelled, he moves away and stares at the musicians, unable to understand how respectable-looking men can sit there unashamed; the place seems another world.", "predicament": "A man who expected to feel pity feels only disgust, and cannot understand how decent-looking people can stand to be there."},
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{"chunk": 24, "story": 1, "summary": "Disgusted, he leaves and announces he is going home, but his tearful, affectionate friend hugs him and drags him into one more house.", "predicament": "A man who wants to go home is guilted by an affectionate friend into staying for one more round."},
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{"chunk": 25, "story": 1, "summary": "Ignored in a grander house, he is ashamed to be there and tormented that he feels only hatred for the women, and resolves to try to understand them.", "predicament": "A man who thought himself kind is ashamed to find he feels nothing but contempt for people he meant to pity."},
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{"chunk": 26, "story": 1, "summary": "Finding only boredom on every face, he sits beside a tired, thoughtful-looking woman and tries to draw her out; she says she is bored but has nowhere else to go.", "predicament": "A man who wants to rescue someone draws her out, and learns she sees no better place to go."},
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{"chunk": 27, "story": 1, "summary": "He tells her begging would be freer; she only asks for porter. Then a man slaps a girl, he rushes to the weeping girl in pity, and recoils when he sees she is drunk.", "predicament": "A man who rushes to comfort someone being mistreated recoils when she turns out not to be the victim he pictured."},
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{"chunk": 28, "story": 1, "summary": "Frightened, he flees the house and waits in the falling snow, exhausted and wanting to go home but wanting still more to vent his feelings on his friends.", "predicament": "A shaken man flees an ugly scene and waits outside, torn between going home and having it out with his companions."},
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{"chunk": 29, "story": 1, "summary": "He concludes the women are not falling but already ruined and that everyone shares the blame; a drunk passer-by claps him on the shoulder as one of the crowd, and he hears his friend fighting inside.", "predicament": "A man who has seen something he cannot unsee realises his own friends are part of the wrong he is horrified by."},
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{"chunk": 30, "story": 1, "summary": "One friend is thrown downstairs after defending a woman from being hit; they calm him and walk home singing, while the student walks behind, judging them.", "predicament": "A man walks home behind friends who have already shrugged off the evening, unable to shake it off himself."},
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{"chunk": 31, "story": 1, "summary": "He decides his friends are as bad as slave-owners and murderers who keep a religious fast, their art and science a hypocrite's pretence.", "predicament": "A man decides the friends he admired are hypocrites whose fine talk covers the harm they cheerfully do."},
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{"chunk": 32, "story": 1, "summary": "He accuses his friends of murdering the women; one calls him a fool whose look of hatred is worse than the whole street, and both leave him.", "predicament": "A man who denounces his friends for their conduct is called a self-righteous fool and left standing alone."},
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{"chunk": 33, "story": 1, "summary": "Walking home alone he is seized by terror, knows a breakdown is coming, and lies imagining himself the brother or father of such a woman.", "predicament": "A sensitive man alone at night feels a familiar collapse coming on, and cannot stop imagining others' misery as his own."},
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{"chunk": 34, "story": 1, "summary": "Treating it as his own problem, he sits up methodically recalling every method his acquaintances have tried to save such women.", "predicament": "A man who cannot bear an injustice tries to solve it single-handed overnight by sheer effort of thought."},
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{"chunk": 35, "story": 1, "summary": "He sorts past rescue attempts into three kinds, finds the first two always failed, and concludes only marriage has ever worked.", "predicament": "A man looking for a way to help someone concludes that the only remedy that works would cost him his whole life."},
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{"chunk": 36, "story": 1, "summary": "He admits he could never marry one, sees the problem is endless, decides the buyers must be saved, and dreams of preaching on the street corner.", "predicament": "A man who realises he cannot make the sacrifice his principles demand looks for a grander, less personal cause instead."},
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{"chunk": 37, "story": 1, "summary": "He imagines rebuking passers-by, and in an ecstasy of feeling for others' pain writes letters and makes vows through the night.", "predicament": "A man who feels others' suffering as his own is swept up in a burst of fervour to set the world right."},
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{"chunk": 38, "story": 1, "summary": "The inspiration fades; the scale of the problem crushes him, and he remembers he is timid, unpersuasive and insignificant.", "predicament": "A man's burst of zeal collapses as he remembers how small, timid and unheeded he really is."},
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{"chunk": 39, "story": 1, "summary": "By daylight he lies motionless in a nameless anguish that makes everything, good or evil, equally loathsome; only the thought that he could kill himself, or that it will pass in three days, soothes him.", "predicament": "A man sunk in a despair that makes everything he cared about seem loathsome clings to the knowledge it will pass."},
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{"chunk": 40, "story": 1, "summary": "He paces, sees his haggard face, hides when a friend knocks, weeps, and at dusk runs out into the street dreading the night.", "predicament": "A man in private anguish hides from a friend at his door, then flees into the night rather than face it alone."},
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{"chunk": 41, "story": 1, "summary": "He wanders the city, drinks vodka, bares his chest to the wet snow and nearly throws himself off a bridge to trade one pain for another, then goes home and paces till morning.", "predicament": "A man in unbearable distress looks for any other pain to drown it out, and finds nothing works."},
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{"chunk": 42, "story": 1, "summary": "His friends find him in torment, begging to be saved; they take him to a polite, cold specialist who begins questioning him.", "predicament": "A man who has reached the end of his strength begs his friends to take him anywhere that can help."},
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{"chunk": 43, "story": 1, "summary": "The doctor asks endless questions about heredity and vices while stroking his knees; the patient grows annoyed at being treated as a case.", "predicament": "A man in real anguish is questioned like a specimen by an expert who does not care what upset him."},
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{"chunk": 44, "story": 1, "summary": "Hearing them discuss the street coolly, he protests that he is praised for trivial work but called mad for caring about the women, then weeps in pity for everyone.", "predicament": "A man is treated as ill for feeling what everyone around him calmly agrees is a real wrong."},
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{"chunk": 45, "story": 1, "summary": "The doctor sedates and examines him; calmer and ashamed, he leaves with prescriptions he has had before and drags himself back to his studies.", "predicament": "A man whose outburst has been soothed away feels ashamed and goes back to his ordinary routine as if nothing happened."}
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