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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
2026-10-07 06:05:51 -04:00

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[
{
"chunk": 86,
"story": 14,
"summary": "A young union labourer, almost a stranger in town, drowns swimming horses; his funeral gathers at a pub, and most of it is too drunk to follow the hearse.",
"predicament": "A worker dies among strangers, and the only people who turn out for his burial are those who belonged to his side."
},
{
"chunk": 87,
"story": 14,
"summary": "A drover is waved away to the bar before he can join; pubs close their front doors as the procession passes, and a drunk shearer pulls himself together to take his hat off.",
"predicament": "Strangers along the road show rough respect to a dead man none of them knew, the drunkest of them pulling himself together."
},
{
"chunk": 88,
"story": 14,
"summary": "A drover walking with the narrator wonders if the dead man's union ticket will count in heaven, and points out that he was the man they joked with on the bank the day before.",
"predicament": "Mourners realise the stranger they are burying is the man they brushed off the day before, and wonder what they owed him."
},
{
"chunk": 89,
"story": 14,
"summary": "At the cemetery the priest's holy water shows up how cheap and shabby the coffin cloth is.",
"predicament": "A stranger's burial is done cheaply and quickly, and the small rites only show how little anyone spent on him."
},
{
"chunk": 90,
"story": 14,
"summary": "A pompous publican holds the priest's hat over his head throughout the service to show off his importance to the church.",
"predicament": "At a stranger's burial an important local makes a show of his own piety, and nobody present dares tell him to stop."
},
{
"chunk": 91,
"story": 14,
"summary": "The gravedigger tries to soften the fall of the clods, but they knock on the coffin all the same.",
"predicament": "The one paid to bury a stranger tries to show a little decency, though nothing much can soften the moment for anyone."
},
{
"chunk": 92,
"story": 14,
"summary": "There is no grieving mate and no letters in his swag, only union papers; his name turns out to be false, and the mourners soon forget it.",
"predicament": "A worker who died among strangers leaves nothing behind but his membership papers, and even his name turns out to be false."
}
]