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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": 302,
"story": 51,
"summary": "Ten mates gather on the wharf to see off their first mate, a carpenter who can get no regular work or fair wages in Sydney, leaving his wife with her people and four pounds ten.",
"predicament": "A skilled worker who can find no steady work at home must leave his wife behind and go abroad to try again."
},
{
"chunk": 303,
"story": 51,
"summary": "He is the first of the old mountain push of building tradesmen to go; they have shared good times and lean ones and famous fortnightly sprees on country jobs.",
"predicament": "A band of workmates who shared good times and lean ones gather to see off the first of them forced to leave."
},
{
"chunk": 304,
"story": 51,
"summary": "Bound by work, poverty and drink, they slip tobacco, books and flasks into his bunk and pockets, and pool what money they have for more.",
"predicament": "Mates with very little money pool what they have to send one of their own off with small tokens of friendship."
},
{
"chunk": 305,
"story": 51,
"summary": "They fuss over his bunk, drag him ashore for drink after drink, and grip his hand over the rail as the steamer casts off, singing and cheering till a sergeant of police watches them.",
"predicament": "Workmates seeing one of their own off stretch the parting with one more drink after another until the very last moment."
},
{
"chunk": 306,
"story": 51,
"summary": "The policeman joins in the singing; the first mate has since prospered in New Zealand; another left secretly to escape debt, dishonour and a drunken wife, and others followed.",
"predicament": "One by one the old crew leave, one to prosper far away, another fleeing debt and shame, and the rest see each one off."
},
{
"chunk": 307,
"story": 51,
"summary": "Jack, the narrator's closest mate, left today, and the narrator thinks it is time he raised his own fare and followed the others.",
"predicament": "As the last of his old mates leaves, a man left behind decides it is time he followed them too."
}
]