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": 441, "story": 9, "summary": "Keefe writes from training camp, sore from vaccination and queasy, sneering at his rough, foreign-born barrack-mates and, out of habit, at left-handers.", "predicament": "A newcomer in a strange, crowded institution sneers at the people around him while feeling sick and sore from his first days."},
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{"chunk": 442, "story": 9, "summary": "He consoles himself for missing his old club's big payday with fantasies of future glory, and describes a tearful farewell at the station where his son did not cry.", "predicament": "Leaving for a hard new life while old colleagues share a windfall, a man comforts himself with the fame he imagines coming."},
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{"chunk": 443, "story": 9, "summary": "The draftees wear patriotic armbands on the train; some recognise Keefe, and he graciously shakes hands, claiming to set aside who he is for the common cause.", "predicament": "Thrown in with a crowd of strangers, someone accepts their recognition graciously and congratulates himself on being so humble."},
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{"chunk": 444, "story": 9, "summary": "The train ride turns into a drunken party: patriotic songs, men too drunk to stand for the anthem, and one who has to be carried back aboard after deciding to go home.", "predicament": "A crowd of newcomers heading into a hard new life drinks itself senseless on the way, and one tries to quit before arriving."},
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{"chunk": 445, "story": 9, "summary": "A brawl breaks out when a small man throws another's trombone out of the window; they arrive battered, and Keefe, who was also drunk, blames a sandwich for his blurred vision.", "predicament": "Someone who arrives as drunk as everyone else insists he alone stayed sober, and blames something he ate."},
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{"chunk": 446, "story": 9, "summary": "They are issued blankets and assigned to barracks; the next letter describes the relentless schedule of calls that regulates every hour of the day.", "predicament": "A newcomer discovers that every hour of his day is now regulated by signals, and grumbles at being told when to sleep."},
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{"chunk": 447, "story": 9, "summary": "The first days are spent cleaning up the grounds; at the medical exam Keefe covers for the camp-wide hangover by blaming the sandwich again.", "predicament": "A newcomer made to clean up other people's mess keeps up a transparent excuse for his own misbehaviour with an unconvinced examiner."},
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{"chunk": 448, "story": 9, "summary": "He is issued an ill-fitting uniform and interviewed about his civilian work; others angle for soft jobs by claiming useful skills, which he says he disdains.", "predicament": "While others talk up their skills to land easy posts, a newcomer claims he is above angling for any comfortable job."},
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{"chunk": 449, "story": 9, "summary": "Asked what he did in civil life, Keefe assumes the interviewer knows his fame, then answers with a long boast about his career.", "predicament": "Asked a simple question about his past, someone assumes he is famous and launches into a long, boastful account."},
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{"chunk": 450, "story": 9, "summary": "The officer puts him down as a pitcher, skill-less otherwise; Keefe boasts he will be the best grenade thrower, then describes callisthenics, breakfast and making his bed.", "predicament": "Found to have no useful skill outside his old line of work, a man boasts that it will make him the best at something new."},
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{"chunk": 451, "story": 9, "summary": "He brags that drilling is easy for him and assumes the captain will pick him to replace the regular instructors, but chafes at having to salute and say sir.", "predicament": "A newcomer who finds the routine easy is sure he will be picked to lead, yet chafes at deferring to those above him."},
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{"chunk": 452, "story": 9, "summary": "He asks the drill instructor to excuse him from exercises because he is already fit and tired, and is made to do them all; he frets that his barrack-mates will cut his throat at night.", "predicament": "A newcomer asks to be excused from the routine because he thinks himself above it, and is made to do every bit of it."},
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{"chunk": 453, "story": 9, "summary": "A joker, Shorty, tells Keefe that the surly man in the next bunk is a notorious knife-wielder with a prison record, and Keefe believes it.", "predicament": "A newcomer is told by a joker that the silent person sleeping next to him is a dangerous criminal, and swallows it whole."},
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{"chunk": 454, "story": 9, "summary": "Keefe laughed when the man was shoved under the shower, and Shorty warns him the man never forgives being laughed at; Keefe lies awake in fear.", "predicament": "Someone who laughed at a stranger's humiliation is warned the stranger never forgives it, and lies awake afraid of revenge."},
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{"chunk": 455, "story": 9, "summary": "He reads the man's silence as plotting; a famous visitor speaks to the whole camp; days later Keefe is still alive and claims he was never really laughing.", "predicament": "Someone who fears a neighbour's revenge reads every silence as a plot and starts rehearsing excuses for what he did."},
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{"chunk": 456, "story": 9, "summary": "A new man takes the bunk on his other side and whispers all night, asking whether he should kill, then says he is talking to God.", "predicament": "Already afraid of the person on one side, a newcomer finds the person on his other side apparently talking about killing."},
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{"chunk": 457, "story": 9, "summary": "Shorty tells him the whisperer is a mad gunman; on inspection day Keefe is proud that he looks perfect and escapes the officers' scolding.", "predicament": "A newcomer frightened by tall tales about his neighbours still takes pride in passing an inspection that others fail."},
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{"chunk": 458, "story": 9, "summary": "He despairs of neatness when he expects to be murdered; then he gets a weekend leave, which he believes was granted because of his fame, and plans to show off at his old club's game.", "predicament": "Granted a favour early, a newcomer assumes it is because of who he used to be, and plans to parade it before his old colleagues."},
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{"chunk": 459, "story": 9, "summary": "He looks forward to seeing his family and cancels their planned visit; a long run leaves him exhausted and crippled by badly fitting shoes.", "predicament": "Excited about going home for a visit, a newcomer calls off his family's plans to come to him, and is worn out by the routine."},
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{"chunk": 460, "story": 9, "summary": "He announces that he has learned neither of his feared neighbours is dangerous after all.", "predicament": "Someone who has lain awake afraid of his neighbours learns the danger was largely imagined, and is relieved."},
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{"chunk": 461, "story": 9, "summary": "Caught asleep at breakfast, he complains of the madman next to him; the instructor laughs that the man is a conscientious objector, set to shovelling coal while he consults God.", "predicament": "A newcomer complains to someone above him about a frightening neighbour, and learns the neighbour is a harmless objector to the whole enterprise."},
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{"chunk": 462, "story": 9, "summary": "Shorty mocks the objector in the recreation room, offering to hold his weapon while he goes over; the objector says he does not mind dying, only killing, and walks out.", "predicament": "A joker publicly mocks someone who refuses on principle to join in, and the refuser answers quietly and walks away."},
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{"chunk": 463, "story": 9, "summary": "Shorty insists the other neighbour is waiting to catch Keefe outside camp; the next letter, days later, finds Keefe despondent and eager to be sent to the front.", "predicament": "Just relieved of one fear, a newcomer is fed a new one by the same joker, and soon sinks into gloom."},
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{"chunk": 464, "story": 9, "summary": "He explains he decided at the last minute not to go home, citing illness, sore feet and his promotion chances, and sent a message for his family to visit instead; Shorty hints that he should watch out.", "predicament": "A man gives up a long-awaited trip home, telling himself it will help his chances of promotion, while really acting from fear."},
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{"chunk": 465, "story": 9, "summary": "Shorty tells him the knife man has faked a family emergency to get leave on the same train, and will come after him and his family at home.", "predicament": "A joker convinces a newcomer that a dangerous man plans to follow him home and harm his family there."},
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{"chunk": 466, "story": 9, "summary": "Keefe says he fears nothing for himself but could not bear his wife and son being hurt defending him.", "predicament": "A frightened man tells himself he is only staying away to protect his wife and child from danger he would bring."},
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{"chunk": 467, "story": 9, "summary": "He adds a bad breakfast and promotion hopes to his reasons, second-guesses his old club's game, and asks the sergeant to postpone his leave, who says he never saw anyone too sick to go home.", "predicament": "Someone piles up excuses for backing out of a favour he begged for, and his superior sees through them at once."},
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{"chunk": 468, "story": 9, "summary": "The feared man also stays, which Keefe takes as proof of the plot; he spends all Sunday watching thousands of visiting families for his wife and son, who never come.", "predicament": "A man waits all day among crowds of visiting families for his own, who never arrive, while imagining a foe watching him."},
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{"chunk": 469, "story": 9, "summary": "The man he trusted to phone his wife admits he forgot, because his own baby was born that day; Keefe barely restrains himself from hitting him.", "predicament": "Someone learns the colleague he trusted with an important message forgot it entirely, for a reason too good to be angry at."},
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{"chunk": 470, "story": 9, "summary": "Florrie writes that she and the boy cried themselves to sleep thinking he no longer cared, then went to the ballgame; they will come next Sunday.", "predicament": "A man learns his wife and child cried all night thinking he had abandoned them, because of a message that never arrived."},
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{"chunk": 471, "story": 9, "summary": "Keefe claims he always knew Shorty was stringing him about the knife man and only played along.", "predicament": "Someone who fell completely for a colleague's prank tells a friend back home he saw through it all along."},
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{"chunk": 472, "story": 9, "summary": "The feared neighbour turns out to be a former groundskeeper and admirer who was too shy to speak; Keefe vows to get back at Shorty, and the objector is reassigned to handing out shoes.", "predicament": "The neighbour a newcomer feared turns out to be a shy admirer, and he vows to get even with the joker who fooled him."}
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