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": 71, "story": 6, "summary": "By a campfire on a bleak river-bank, a drunk old exile hides his bottle from his mates while a sick young newcomer mourns the home and wife he was sent away from.", "predicament": "A young man sent far from home against his will sits in a bleak place longing for the family he left behind."},
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{"chunk": 72, "story": 6, "summary": "The old exile tells him he will get used to it: he has worked the same crossing for twenty-two years and wants nothing, and urges the youth to stop wanting his wife and freedom.", "predicament": "A homesick newcomer is told by an old hand that the only way to endure is to stop wanting anything at all."},
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{"chunk": 73, "story": 6, "summary": "The old man boasts that he was once a gentleman's son who wore a frock-coat, and has made himself free by wanting nothing; whoever listens to longing even once is lost.", "predicament": "A man who has lost everything insists he is free because he has trained himself to want nothing."},
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{"chunk": 74, "story": 6, "summary": "He tells of a gentleman exiled for forgery who meant to live by his own labour but kept riding for money from home, while the old man warned him that wanting leads to ruin.", "predicament": "A man starting over in hard exile cannot stop hoping for help from the life he lost."},
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{"chunk": 75, "story": 6, "summary": "The gentleman's wife joined him with their baby, he spent lavishly to keep her happy among the local officials, and she, spoilt and bored, pined in the hardship.", "predicament": "A man who drags a loved one into his hard lot spends everything trying to make it bearable for her."},
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{"chunk": 76, "story": 6, "summary": "Three years later the wife fled across the river with a young official; the husband chased them for five days and then beat his head on the ferry boards, while the old man laughed at him.", "predicament": "A man whose spouse has run off with another chases them in vain, and returns to be laughed at."},
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{"chunk": 77, "story": 6, "summary": "The gentleman spent eight years petitioning to go home, then found new joy in his grown daughter; but the girl, young and with no life there, pined and is now dying of consumption.", "predicament": "A father who pins all his remaining happiness on his child watches her waste away in a place with nothing for her."},
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{"chunk": 78, "story": 6, "summary": "The old man predicts the father will ruin himself chasing doctors and end in prison; the young exile answers that even three years with a wife were a gift, better than nothing.", "predicament": "A young man insists one brief happiness is worth any grief that follows, against an old man who wants nothing."},
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{"chunk": 79, "story": 6, "summary": "The young exile weeps that he is innocent, punished in place of a rich uncle by an unfair verdict; the old man only repeats that he will get used to it and goes to sleep.", "predicament": "A young man punished for what his relatives did protests his innocence, and is told only that he will get used to it."},
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{"chunk": 80, "story": 6, "summary": "Alone by the fire, he longs for his wife to come even for a day, then realises he could not feed her; his mates cheat him of his share of tips, and soon he will be begging.", "predicament": "A poor man longing for a loved one to join him realises he could not even feed her if she came."},
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{"chunk": 81, "story": 6, "summary": "Towards dawn he dreams he is home and the exile was a nightmare, then wakes to shouts and gunshots from the far bank calling the ferrymen out into the cold.", "predicament": "A homesick man dreams for a moment that his hardship was only a nightmare, then wakes to it again."},
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{"chunk": 82, "story": 6, "summary": "They row the clumsy barge unhurriedly across; on the far bank the exiled gentleman waits, grim and distracted, hurrying to a new doctor for his sick daughter.", "predicament": "A desperate father makes yet another hopeless journey in bad weather for anyone who might save his child."},
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{"chunk": 83, "story": 6, "summary": "The old man taunts the silent gentleman with his own words that people can live even here and tells him his search is useless; he pays and drives off without a word.", "predicament": "A man in distress is mocked by someone who takes satisfaction in having predicted his misfortune."},
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{"chunk": 84, "story": 6, "summary": "The young exile tells the old man he is a dead stone and the gentleman is truly alive; everyone laughs, the others lie down in the cold hut, and the youth weeps outside.", "predicament": "A young man who still feels his grief tells a hardened elder he is dead inside, and is laughed at."}
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