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JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5 3a4758172d story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3
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": 31,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Despite vowing never to report, Jack has gone to San Francisco after a veteran catcher told him refusing would only hurt himself and that a spell in the minor Coast League would give him experience.",
"predicament": "Someone who swore they would quit rather than accept a demotion is talked round by an old hand and swallows it."
},
{
"chunk": 32,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack pretends to Comiskey that he hopes to return, schemes to be bought by Detroit so he can be near Violet, and brags that he is terrorising the Coast League.",
"predicament": "Someone sent down to a lesser post tells the boss what he wants to hear while privately scheming to be rescued elsewhere."
},
{
"chunk": 33,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack claims he eased up to let an old acquaintance get a hit and praises his new, gentler manager; Violet has sent a postcard calling him a 'busher', so he says he is well rid of her.",
"predicament": "Someone freshly demoted is brushed off by the person he was courting, and insists he is glad to be rid of them."
},
{
"chunk": 34,
"story": 1,
"summary": "A big beer-loving fan named Hazel picks Jack up, steers the talk to marriage, and after several beers he proposes; she immediately asks what he earns and says it is not enough.",
"predicament": "A lonely man, flattered and a little drunk, lets a near stranger steer him into a proposal, and she asks his income at once."
},
{
"chunk": 35,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack boasts of his winning streak; when the manager warns him that chasing Hazel is ruining his form, Jack tells him to mind his own business but quietly goes to bed early.",
"predicament": "A boss warns that a new romance is hurting someone's work; they tell him to mind his business, then quietly obey."
},
{
"chunk": 36,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The White Sox exercise an option and recall Jack; Hazel wants to come along and marry him at once, but he puts her off for lack of money and promises to send for her.",
"predicament": "Someone suddenly recalled to a better post must leave a new fiancée behind, promising to send for her once he can afford it."
},
{
"chunk": 37,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Back in Chicago Jack wants revenge on Detroit and on Violet; Gleason asks what he learned, and when Jack sneers at the great Walter Johnson, Gleason concludes he learned nothing.",
"predicament": "Someone returning from a demotion claims to have learned his lesson, then dismisses the very best in the business in front of a mentor."
},
{
"chunk": 38,
"story": 1,
"summary": "After being held back, Jack beats the champion Athletics five to one and disputes the scorers' hits; Gleason praises him but warns him to keep his head from swelling.",
"predicament": "Someone given a second chance wins a real success, and a mentor's praise comes with a warning not to let it swell his head."
},
{
"chunk": 39,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Callahan agrees to let Jack pitch at Detroit, jokes about his plan for Cobb, then says he has improved and may use him in the lucrative autumn series; Jack is scornful of Allen and his wife's plain sister.",
"predicament": "Someone who has earned the boss's grudging confidence is promised a chance at the big payout and immediately sneers at a humbler peer."
},
{
"chunk": 40,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack one-hits Detroit, blaming a teammate for the one hit; before the game the rival manager and Callahan trade jokes at his expense and Jack chimes in with a retort.",
"predicament": "Someone who was humiliated by a rival crowd comes back to face them, while the two bosses joke about him in his presence."
},
{
"chunk": 41,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack trades insults with Cobb and the Detroit bench and handles their hitters, and Callahan says he learned something on the Coast.",
"predicament": "Someone once humbled by a rival outfit gets his revenge on them, trading taunts with the rivals while he does it."
},
{
"chunk": 42,
"story": 1,
"summary": "After the win Jack sneaks a couple of beers, then gets a phone call from Violet, who wants to see him; he accuses her of calling him a busher and she denies writing the postcard.",
"predicament": "Someone who wrote off a former sweetheart gets a call from her after a public success, and she denies the slight that ended it."
},
{
"chunk": 43,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Violet cries on the phone and Jack, half believing her, tells her he is engaged and hangs up; he then misses supper and grumbles over the twenty cents the evening cost him.",
"predicament": "Someone who half believes an old sweetheart's denial tells her he is promised to another, then frets over the pennies it cost him."
},
{
"chunk": 44,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Hazel asks Jack for a hundred dollars; he sends thirty, accepting her excuse that a friend borrowed her money, while a tear-blotted letter from Violet protests her innocence.",
"predicament": "A man sends money to a fiancée with a flimsy excuse while a former sweetheart writes pleading that she was wronged."
},
{
"chunk": 45,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Relieving in Cleveland, Jack disobeys Callahan's order to walk a dangerous hitter and gets lucky; Callahan threatens to suspend him without pay and thrash him if he ever disobeys again.",
"predicament": "Someone who defies a direct order and gets away with it by luck is told by the boss that next time he is finished."
},
{
"chunk": 46,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack wins in Boston, blames teammates for the hits, and sends Violet his next address; in New York he reads a paper saying he was lucky and threatens to punch the reporter.",
"predicament": "Someone who keeps an old sweetheart dangling while engaged is stung by a public report calling his success luck."
},
{
"chunk": 47,
"story": 1,
"summary": "In New York teammates run up a tab and leave the country boy to pay a dollar for one round, and he is baffled when the waiter and hat-check boy expect tips.",
"predicament": "A country newcomer out with worldly colleagues is left holding the bill and does not understand what is expected of him."
},
{
"chunk": 48,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack turns down a ticket scalper; Gleason buys him a cheap beer, hears about the expensive round, and tells him to stop going out with the players and let Gleason steer him instead.",
"predicament": "A naive newcomer being fleeced in the big city is taken in hand by a senior mentor who offers to steer him."
},
{
"chunk": 49,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Gleason squires Jack round New York, drives off two women who approach them, and takes him to a picture show; Jack sends Hazel postcards.",
"predicament": "A mentor chaperoning a naive newcomer drives off the city's temptations, while the newcomer thinks he is spoiling the fun."
},
{
"chunk": 50,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Gleason sends Jack to bed at ten; Callahan saves him to face the great Johnson in Washington, which Jack takes as proof he is the best, and a letter from Violet nearly makes him cry.",
"predicament": "Someone handed the hardest assignment takes it as proof he is the best, while torn between two women he has encouraged."
},
{
"chunk": 51,
"story": 1,
"summary": "At breakfast Gleason and the others joke that everyone falls sick when facing Johnson; Jack insists he is not afraid and will win if they get him a couple of runs.",
"predicament": "Colleagues joke about how hopeless the next challenge is, and the newcomer loudly insists he alone is not afraid."
},
{
"chunk": 52,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack writes that he beat Johnson one to nothing and got a theatre ticket from Callahan; before the game he told the catcher he wanted to prove Callahan right.",
"predicament": "Someone chosen for a nearly hopeless task wants badly to prove the boss did not make a mistake in choosing him."
},
{
"chunk": 53,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The game is scoreless through seven; Jack walks several and gives up hits but escapes with men on base, and blames the umpire for his walks and strikeouts.",
"predicament": "Someone holding their own in a tense contest escapes trouble again and again, and blames the judge for his own mistakes."
},
{
"chunk": 54,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack's single drives in the only run and he escapes a bases-loaded ninth; Callahan calls him a real pitcher, and Jack sends a pitying postcard to Violet while wondering why Hazel hasn't written.",
"predicament": "Someone who has just won the boss's full approval keeps an old flame on a string while his fiancée has gone quiet."
},
{
"chunk": 55,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack asks Al to rent him the yellow house next door for married life with Hazel, and boasts the White Sox would have won the pennant if he had been there all season.",
"predicament": "Someone makes firm plans for a home and a marriage on the strength of a fiancée who has stopped writing."
},
{
"chunk": 56,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack loses a game of the city series and blames his arm and his support, while assuming Hazel's silence means she is planning a surprise.",
"predicament": "Someone who loses an important contest blames everyone else, and explains away a fiancée's long silence as a pleasant surprise."
},
{
"chunk": 57,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Hazel writes that she has married a prizefighter, calls Jack a cheapskate and keeps his thirty dollars; Jack declares himself happy and immediately invites Violet to come and marry him.",
"predicament": "A man jilted by one fiancée who kept his money declares himself relieved and proposes to the other at once."
},
{
"chunk": 58,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack rhapsodises about marrying Violet in the little yellow house; a day later he writes that he has lost all interest in the game because his heart is broken.",
"predicament": "Someone who rushed to rebuild his plans around a second choice hears bad news and loses all heart for his work."
},
{
"chunk": 59,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Violet is engaged to Detroit's left-hander Joe Hill, whom Jack sneers at; he asks Al to get him out of the lease and talks of leaving the country in despair.",
"predicament": "A man turned down for a rival sneers at the rival's ability and wants to escape the home he had arranged."
},
{
"chunk": 60,
"story": 1,
"summary": "The landlord won't cancel the lease; Jack is to pitch the deciding game, grudgingly goes to Allen's to play cards where the wife's sister is visiting, and admits drinking before breakfast over Violet.",
"predicament": "A heartbroken man stuck with a lease he no longer needs drinks in the morning and swears off love before a big day."
},
{
"chunk": 61,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack wins the deciding game and the series money, blames the umpire for the one run, and vows not to sign next year for less than five thousand or he will jump to the rival Federal League.",
"predicament": "Someone who has just delivered a big win vows to demand a huge raise or walk out to a rival outfit."
},
{
"chunk": 62,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack goes to a show with Allen, his wife and her sister Florence, and the next day announces he and Florence will marry tomorrow; he wants the house after all.",
"predicament": "A man jilted twice in a week proposes to the third woman who admires him, and marries her the next day."
},
{
"chunk": 63,
"story": 1,
"summary": "Jack praises Florence for admiring him; he has signed for twenty-eight hundred, far below the five thousand he swore to demand, and is relieved the lease is now useful.",
"predicament": "Someone who vowed to hold out for a huge sum signs for much less, and rushes into marriage with a woman who flatters him."
}
]