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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81 lines
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{
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"chunk": 159,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "A drover's wife is left alone with four children in a slab hut nineteen miles from anyone; a snake goes into the woodheap and under the house, and her eldest boy and the dog rush after it.",
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"predicament": "A wife left alone with small children far from any help finds that a deadly danger has got into their home."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 160,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "She will not take the children into the house, so she puts them to bed on the kitchen table and sits up all night beside them with a club, the dog and her sewing.",
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"predicament": "Left alone to protect her children, a woman gives up her own sleep to keep watch through the night against a hidden danger."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 161,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "Her eldest son swears and vows to stay awake and kill the snake; a thunderstorm comes on, and the dog's gaze tells her the snake is behind the partition.",
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"predicament": "Keeping watch alone through a stormy night, a mother calms frightened children while her eager eldest wants to face the danger himself."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 162,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "Her nerves are shaken: a nephew recently died of snakebite, and she has not heard from her husband for six months since drought ruined him and sent him back to droving; her girlish hopes are long dead.",
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"predicament": "A wife left on her own for months, with no word from a husband gone to find work, has let every girlhood hope die."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 163,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "Her husband is careless but good to her when he has money; she bore her last children alone, helped once by an Aboriginal woman, and rode nineteen miles carrying a dead child.",
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"predicament": "A wife left alone when she most needed help has faced childbirth and a child's death with only strangers to turn to."
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},
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"chunk": 164,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "Near two in the morning, with the old scarred dog watching the wall, she lays down her sewing and thinks about her life, since there is little else to think about.",
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"predicament": "Sitting up alone at night, a woman whose life holds little else keeps company with her own hard memories."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 165,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "She remembers fighting a bushfire alone in her husband's trousers with her small son beside her, saved only by four bushmen who arrived in time.",
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"predicament": "A wife left alone to defend the place fights a disaster far beyond her strength, and is rescued only just in time."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 166,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "She remembers losing the dam to a flood, losing her best cows to disease, shooting a mad bullock and selling its hide, and telling suspicious strangers that her husband and sons are nearby.",
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"predicament": "A wife alone keeps losing battles against flood and sickness, and pretends her menfolk are close by whenever a stranger calls."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 167,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "Last week she drove off a menacing swagman with a batten and the dog; every Sunday she dresses the children and walks the empty track with the pram, having grown used to the loneliness.",
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"predicament": "A woman alone faces down a threatening stranger who expected no man about, and keeps up appearances though nobody will see."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 168,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "She is glad but undemonstrative when her husband returns; going for wood before dawn, she finds the woodheap she praised and paid an Aboriginal man for was built hollow, and cries.",
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"predicament": "A woman who praised and paid someone for honest work finds, at the worst possible moment, that she was cheated."
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{
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"chunk": 169,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "Wiping her eyes, she pokes her fingers through the holes in her handkerchief and laughs, as she once laughed when the cat seemed to cry with her.",
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"predicament": "A worn-out woman at the end of her tether finds something absurd enough to laugh at instead of weeping."
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{
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"chunk": 170,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "Near daylight the snake shows itself at a crack; the dog drags it out and the woman clubs it to death, holding her eldest back in bed.",
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"predicament": "After a long night's watch alone, the danger at last shows itself, and a woman and her loyal dog must kill it together."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 171,
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"story": 29,
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"summary": "She burns the snake; her son sees her tears, hugs her and vows he will never go droving, and they sit together as day breaks.",
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"predicament": "Seeing his mother's tears after the long night, a boy vows never to take up the life that leaves a family alone."
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}
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]
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