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": 141, "story": 10, "summary": "A well-fed, slightly drunk first-class traveller asks his companion to chat, and raises the question of what fame really is and how anyone gets it.", "predicament": "A comfortable older man, idle after dinner, draws a stranger into talk about something that plainly still rankles him."},
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{"chunk": 142, "story": 10, "summary": "He recounts a lifetime of distinguished work, bridges, treatises and discoveries, then tests his fame by asking if his companion knows his name; he does not.", "predicament": "A man who has worked hard all his life finds that nobody has ever heard of him or what he did."},
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{"chunk": 143, "story": 10, "summary": "He complains that worthless, idle people win renown while he did not, and begins a story about taking up, out of boredom, with a talentless singer in a dull town.", "predicament": "A capable man watches lesser people win the recognition he worked for, and cannot work out what they did right."},
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{"chunk": 144, "story": 10, "summary": "At the opening of his magnificent bridge nobody notices him; the crowd whispers only about his mistress, and he is pointed out merely as her lover.", "predicament": "A man whose finest work goes unnoticed is known in public only as the companion of someone more popular."},
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{"chunk": 145, "story": 10, "summary": "A bystander knows who the singer lives with but not who built the bridge; next day the paper mentions her beauty and not him, and he cries with vexation.", "predicament": "A man eager for credit reads the public account of his achievement and finds it given entirely to someone else."},
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{"chunk": 146, "story": 10, "summary": "He consoles himself that the provinces are stupid and real recognition waits in the capital, where a competition entry of his is about to be judged.", "predicament": "A man overlooked at home tells himself that people who matter elsewhere will surely recognise him."},
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{"chunk": 147, "story": 10, "summary": "His work wins first prize in the capital, but the papers fuss over his mistress's arrival and give his prize one tiny line with his name misspelt.", "predicament": "A man who wins the honour he hoped for sees it buried in small print while trivial gossip takes the headlines."},
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{"chunk": 148, "story": 10, "summary": "Years later, called to do an important work in another city and giving public lectures, he is ignored by every paper; he tries to start talk about himself on a crowded tram, and nobody knows.", "predicament": "A man starved of recognition fishes for it among strangers, and finds nobody has heard of him."},
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{"chunk": 149, "story": 10, "summary": "The whole tram rushes to see a famous runner; he rants that talented men die unknown while entertainers are household names, and a notorious cardsharp walks past.", "predicament": "A man who has spent his life on real work rages that the public only celebrates showmen and scoundrels."},
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{"chunk": 150, "story": 10, "summary": "Someone recognises the cardsharp at once; then his companion shyly asks if he knows his name, a professor and academician of thirty-five years, and he doesn't; they both laugh.", "predicament": "A man complaining that nobody knows his name is caught not knowing the name of the person in front of him."}
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