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": 25, "story": 3,
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"summary": "The son wants two months in Europe before starting work; the father cuts off his allowance in two weeks and says it is worry and drink after hours, not work, that break men's health.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has never earned anything wants a long holiday before starting work, just as their support is being cut off.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "wear yourself out after hours with worry or carousing", "outcome": "that, not the work, breaks down your health", "quote": "It's not what a man does during working-hours, but after them, that breaks down his health.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 26, "story": 3,
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"summary": "Men who carouse or brood after work always need holidays and get no good of them; a change of work is the best rest, and a job should be taken the moment it is offered and used as bait for a better one.",
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"predicament": "Someone out of work, or about to start, must decide whether to take the first job offered or hold out for better.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "spend your evenings carousing or brooding over troubles", "outcome": "you always need a rest and never get any good from one", "quote": "They're the men who are always needing vacations, and never getting any good out of them.", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "take the first job offered and use it to reach a better one", "outcome": "each small catch lands a bigger one", "quote": "to take the first job that offered, and to use it for bait. You can catch a minnow with a worm, and a bass will take your minnow", "stance": "do"}]},
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{"chunk": 27, "story": 3,
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"summary": "Take the medicine without playing with the spoon: putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and a hard one impossible.",
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"predicament": "Someone facing an unwelcome task keeps finding reasons to put it off a little longer.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "put off an unwelcome task", "outcome": "easy things become hard and hard ones impossible", "quote": "Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 28, "story": 3,
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"summary": "An old storekeeper put off everything, from rising to prayers to firing and raising clerks to paying bills, and lost his meals, his church, his cash, his good men and his business.",
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"predicament": "Someone in charge keeps putting off hard decisions about people and bills until the consequences arrive on their own.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "put off dismissing bad staff", "outcome": "they make off with the cash", "quote": "he would keep putting off firing his bad clerks until they had lit out with the petty cash", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "put off raising good staff", "outcome": "a competitor hires them away", "quote": "he would keep putting off raising the salaries of his good ones until his competitor had hired them away", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "put off paying what you owe even when you have the money", "outcome": "the business is ruined", "quote": "Running a business on those lines is, of course, equivalent to making a will in favor of the sheriff and committing suicide so that he can inherit.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 29, "story": 3,
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"summary": "A mistake is excusable once; the father has seen hundreds of graduates go abroad for polish and come back with nothing but ill-fitting clothes, since culture is not a change of climate.",
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"predicament": "Someone hopes a spell of travel and leisure will give them the polish they feel they lack before starting work.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "make the same mistake twice", "outcome": "there is no excuse left but carelessness", "quote": "When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "go abroad expecting to come back polished", "outcome": "you bring back nothing worth having", "quote": "they didn't bring back a great deal except a few trunks of badly fitting clothes", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 30, "story": 3,
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"summary": "On his one trip to Europe the father was marked as an easy mark, sold two fake old masters, and chose his trade mark over a purchased coat of arms.",
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"predicament": "A newly prosperous person abroad is marked as an easy target by everyone with something to sell them.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "buy the trappings of culture where you cannot judge their worth", "outcome": "you are taken for an easy mark and fleeced", "quote": "In London, for the first time in my life, I was taken for an easy thing. Every time I went into a store there was a bull movement.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 31, "story": 3,
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"summary": "The father prefers his trade mark, known everywhere for quality, to an inherited coat of arms; the son can travel once he has worked some years.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has built a name by their work is tempted to buy the trappings of inherited rank instead.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "build your name on the quality of your work instead of borrowed rank", "outcome": "it pays better, and the whole trade trusts it", "quote": "and it's a heap more profitable. It's got so now that every jobber in the trade knows that it stands for good quality", "stance": "do"}]}
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