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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69 lines
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"chunk": 211,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "On a scorching Christmas Day an old hut-keeping shepherd plans to yard the sheep early without the super knowing, cooks his dinner and thinks of digging up an Aboriginal grave.",
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"predicament": "An old man alone at a remote post decides to knock off early for the holiday, sure that the boss will never know."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 212,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "He shares his Christmas dinner with his dog Five Bob, yards the sheep, and walks three miles to dig up the grave for its bones.",
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"predicament": "A solitary old man makes a holiday out of almost nothing, with only his dog for company, and goes hunting for curiosities."
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{
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"chunk": 213,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "Coming home through a gully he finds the sun-dried body of a man lying face down under a sapling.",
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"predicament": "A man alone far from anyone stumbles on the body of someone who died out there with no help at all."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 214,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "From the boots and the rum bottle he recognises Brummy, an old mate who could earn more than any man but drank it all, and scolds the corpse before pocketing the rum.",
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"predicament": "A man finds that an old mate who could never stay off the drink has finally drunk himself to death, alone."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 215,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "He sandwiches the body between sheets of bark, tears strips from his only shirt to tie it, and carries Brummy home on his shoulder with the bag of bones.",
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"predicament": "A man with almost nothing gives up part of what little he owns to carry home the body of an old mate decently."
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"chunk": 216,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "On the way he keeps stopping for pulls at the rum, while black goannas keep appearing and his dog will not touch them.",
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"predicament": "Carrying home a dead mate, a man steadies himself with the dead man's own drink while something keeps following them."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 217,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "At the hut the corpse falls against him and later seems to stare from empty sockets; he threatens it not to play jokes on him.",
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"predicament": "Alone at night with the body of an old mate, a man is badly frightened and scolds the dead man to steady himself."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 218,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "He wakes after dark to a rustling on the roof, searches with his shotgun, and finally sits up outside to watch till dawn.",
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"predicament": "A man alone at night hears something he cannot explain, and sits up armed and watching until he knows what it is."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 219,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "He shoots a goanna that had been feeding on the body; unable to leave the sheep to report the death, he decides to bury Brummy himself.",
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"predicament": "Unable to leave his charge to fetch anyone, a man alone takes on the burial of an old mate by himself."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 220,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "He lowers the body into the grave and, leaning on his spade, remembers the past and says tomorrow has come for Brummy and is coming for him.",
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"predicament": "Burying an old mate who drank himself to death, a lonely man remembers their past and feels his own end coming."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 221,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "Feeling something ought to be said, he takes off his hat and recites a garbled 'ashes to ashes' in hope of the resurrection, then walks back to the hut.",
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"predicament": "A rough, lonely man wants to say something proper over an old mate's grave and does his best with half-remembered words."
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}
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]
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