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": 607, "story": 14, "summary": "In endless rain behind the lines, Keefe sneers that sailors on big warships have a soft life waiting for an enemy fleet that will never come out.", "predicament": "Stuck in miserable conditions, a man sneers that others in the same enterprise have an easy ride and do nothing."},
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{"chunk": 608, "story": 14, "summary": "He jokes that the flooded camp could float battleships and says he would train recruits by soaking them, so the conditions would be no surprise.", "predicament": "Soaked and idle, someone grumbles that the people who trained him never prepared him for what the job is really like."},
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{"chunk": 609, "story": 14, "summary": "The billet is nicknamed the Ark for its animals and bugs; next, he explains that allied officers pin medals on men for brave deeds or for dying.", "predicament": "Living in squalor and hearing of colleagues honoured for bravery, a newcomer starts to covet the same recognition."},
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{"chunk": 610, "story": 14, "summary": "A joker, Alcock, needles him about the medals he will win, saying he would run from the enemy so fast he'd earn their decoration; Keefe threatens him.", "predicament": "A braggart who covets honours is mocked by a colleague as a coward who would run away, and answers with threats."},
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{"chunk": 611, "story": 14, "summary": "He says only favouritism could deny him a medal, claims the locals love him, and argues they should learn his language instead of him learning theirs.", "predicament": "Sure he deserves recognition, a newcomer claims everyone likes him and thinks the locals should adapt to him, not the reverse."},
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{"chunk": 612, "story": 14, "summary": "He mocks the allies' motley uniforms; the regiment is starting a weekly newspaper of news and jokes.", "predicament": "A newcomer mocks the ways of the people he is working alongside, while colleagues set up a little newsletter of their own."},
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{"chunk": 613, "story": 14, "summary": "The editor asks for an article on pitching; Keefe says he is only stalling, since writing is childish, and recalls a reporter who mocked him after a loss.", "predicament": "Asked to contribute to a colleague's project, someone claims it is beneath him, still sore at being mocked in print years ago."},
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{"chunk": 614, "story": 14, "summary": "He says the paper will get nothing from him and sneers that most of his comrades cannot spell.", "predicament": "Having refused to contribute, a man sneers that the colleagues running a project are too ignorant to do it well."},
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{"chunk": 615, "story": 14, "summary": "He wrote the article anyway, claiming the editor misheard his refusal, and boasts that he drank heavily after his talk and was never caught.", "predicament": "Someone who swore he was above a colleague's project does it anyway and pretends he was misunderstood into it."},
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{"chunk": 616, "story": 14, "summary": "His article, quoted, claims pitchers do the real thinking in baseball and begins an example from a game.", "predicament": "Given a platform, a man writes an essay claiming people in his old line of work are the true thinkers."},
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{"chunk": 617, "story": 14, "summary": "The example: he walked one batter to strike out a weak one, then lost the game on his teammates' errors and a passed ball.", "predicament": "To prove his cleverness, someone offers as an example a contest he lost, blaming the loss on everyone else."},
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{"chunk": 618, "story": 14, "summary": "He argues the war would go better if generals had played big-league baseball and learned to think quickly.", "predicament": "Someone near the bottom writes that the people running things would do better if they had his own background."},
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{"chunk": 619, "story": 14, "summary": "He ends with a joke about a green rookie; Alcock reads it, praises it extravagantly and suggests the generals may want him on their staff.", "predicament": "A joker praises a braggart's foolish essay to the skies and suggests the people at the top will want his advice."},
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{"chunk": 620, "story": 14, "summary": "Keefe says he does not want a safe staff job away from the fighting, but would gladly give the generals hints; next, he reports the paper has printed his article.", "predicament": "Flattered that his ideas may reach the top, a man insists he does not want a safe desk job while plainly hoping for one."},
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{"chunk": 621, "story": 14, "summary": "A letter arrives purportedly from the commander-in-chief himself; Keefe treasures it and copies it out for Al.", "predicament": "Someone low in a strict hierarchy receives a letter apparently from the very top, and never suspects it is a prank."},
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{"chunk": 622, "story": 14, "summary": "The hoax letter, signed with a nickname and a music-hall address, gravely asks for his baseball secrets and his plans for a campaign.", "predicament": "A prankster, writing as the head of the whole organisation, solemnly asks someone at the bottom for his plans to win."},
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{"chunk": 623, "story": 14, "summary": "He shows it to a few friends; Alcock vouches that the signature proves it genuine and urges him to reply carefully, since he may be summoned to headquarters and spared the trenches.", "predicament": "The joker behind a prank vouches that it is genuine, and dangles the prospect of a safe post far from danger."},
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{"chunk": 624, "story": 14, "summary": "Keefe protests he wants to fight, but talks himself into accepting a staff post as a patriotic sacrifice of his own feelings.", "predicament": "Offered an escape from danger, a man insists he wants to face it, then persuades himself that escaping is a noble sacrifice."},
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{"chunk": 625, "story": 14, "summary": "Alcock advises him to learn the language to speak at the war council; Keefe claims he already speaks it passably.", "predicament": "Told he must master a new skill for the important post he imagines, someone claims he already has it."},
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{"chunk": 626, "story": 14, "summary": "He says he half wishes he had never written the article, but jokes about a pair of jacks; next, he copies out his reply to the commander.", "predicament": "Someone pretends to regret the attention his work has drawn while relishing being linked to the person at the top."},
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{"chunk": 627, "story": 14, "summary": "His reply insists he is no shirker but will sacrifice himself if needed, and that strategy is the same in war and baseball.", "predicament": "Writing to the head of the organisation, someone insists he is no coward while offering himself for a safer role."},
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{"chunk": 628, "story": 14, "summary": "He claims he has ideas too secret to put in writing and asks for a letter ordering his captain to send him to the capital.", "predicament": "Writing upward, someone claims his ideas are too valuable to put in writing, and asks to be summoned for a meeting."},
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{"chunk": 629, "story": 14, "summary": "He closes with a poker joke about two jacks bluffing; then tells Al he hopes to stay with the regiment but will go if summoned.", "predicament": "Having written to the top with jokes and bluster, a man waits for a summons while claiming he would rather stay put."},
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{"chunk": 630, "story": 14, "summary": "He strikes a bargain with a girl at a café to trade language lessons, and worries she is already falling for him.", "predicament": "A married man arranges private lessons with a young woman who smiled at him, and fears she will fall for him."},
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{"chunk": 631, "story": 14, "summary": "The commander is really coming to inspect the camp; Keefe is sure it is to see him, and Alcock congratulates him on landing a soft job.", "predicament": "When the head of the organisation announces a routine visit, a man assumes it is to see him personally."},
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{"chunk": 632, "story": 14, "summary": "He prepares to leave at a moment's notice and writes down his ideas so he will not forget them when nervous.", "predicament": "Expecting to be singled out by the top, someone rehearses his ideas in writing so he will not freeze in the moment."},
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{"chunk": 633, "story": 14, "summary": "He frets that the café girl is falling for him, claims he only meant to cheer her, and decides the lessons must stop.", "predicament": "A married man who has been flirting convinces himself the young woman is heartbroken over him, and resolves to stay away."},
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{"chunk": 634, "story": 14, "summary": "He jokes about wearing a mask to escape female attention; next, he sets out his numbered notes for the commander.", "predicament": "Someone vain about his charms turns to preparing the grand ideas he means to present to the people at the top."},
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{"chunk": 635, "story": 14, "summary": "His first idea: generals should, like managers, study the enemy's weak points before battle and attack those.", "predicament": "Someone at the bottom prepares to lecture the leaders on the most obvious principle of their own business."},
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{"chunk": 636, "story": 14, "summary": "His second: get the jump on the opponent; his example is a game he lost to bad luck.", "predicament": "Someone illustrates his winning advice with a story of a contest he lost, blaming luck and colleagues."},
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{"chunk": 637, "story": 14, "summary": "His third and fourth: generals may use as many men as they like, and need not announce when they will attack; his examples are more losses.", "predicament": "Someone drafts advice for his leaders that states the obvious, each point illustrated by one of his own defeats."},
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{"chunk": 638, "story": 14, "summary": "He suggests moving troops at night for surprise, illustrated by a pitch that fooled a great hitter, who then hit it for two runs.", "predicament": "A man proposes surprise as his great insight, citing a time his own trick backfired."},
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{"chunk": 639, "story": 14, "summary": "He imagines the commander listening spellbound and dreams of the officer's pay a staff job would bring.", "predicament": "Someone at the bottom daydreams about the pay and status of a post he believes the top is about to offer him."},
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{"chunk": 640, "story": 14, "summary": "He broods over what his neglectful wife may be doing, and tells himself that if he kisses the café girl, it will be his wife's fault.", "predicament": "Brooding over a wife who rarely writes, a man excuses in advance the flirtation he is about to pursue."},
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{"chunk": 641, "story": 14, "summary": "He writes in despair that he would welcome a gas attack, so bad is his luck.", "predicament": "After a disastrous day, someone announces he is so unlucky he would welcome any danger that ended it."},
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{"chunk": 642, "story": 14, "summary": "Excused from rifle practice for sore feet, he visited the café girl and kissed her, was caught by her furious father, and bought him off with a banknote.", "predicament": "Having skipped duty with an excuse, a married man is caught kissing a young woman by her father and pays his way out."},
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{"chunk": 643, "story": 14, "summary": "The commander turned up at the rifle practice he skipped; Keefe believes he missed his great chance, and then gets two affectionate letters from his wife that arrived a day too late.", "predicament": "A man who skipped his duty to flirt learns he missed a visit from the top, and that his wife loves him after all."}
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