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": 158, "story": 18,
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"summary": "On the voyage home the father met a sensible, pretty young woman who knows a great deal about the son; he asks the son's intentions, and says fifty a week will do with the right wife, but money must be considered.",
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"predicament": "Someone on a modest salary seems serious about a sensible partner, and must weigh whether their means will carry a marriage.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "leave money out of your thinking before you marry", "outcome": "you have to think about it far too much afterwards", "quote": "When a boy and a girl don't think enough about money before the ceremony, they're going to have to think altogether too much about it after", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "marry a sensible partner even on modest pay", "outcome": "a modest income buys a great deal of happiness", "quote": "you can buy a whole lot of happiness with fifty dollars a week when you have the right sort of a woman for your purchasing agent", "stance": "do"}]},
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{"chunk": 159, "story": 18,
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"summary": "Two cannot live as cheaply as one; an unmarried man is unimproved land, and many rich young men are made land, ooze and drink under their fathers' dollars, that women build on without testing.",
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"predicament": "Someone is tempted to marry a charming heir whose inherited money covers a weak character underneath.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "marry a pampered heir without first testing what lies under the money", "outcome": "the marriage cracks and falls in", "quote": "a lot of women will go right ahead without any preliminaries and wonder what's the matter when the walls begin to crack and tumble about their ears", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 160, "story": 18,
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"summary": "The father was made trustee for a frivolous heir of a million until he turned twenty-five, and at a dance watched him court a young heiress with every sign of devotion.",
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"predicament": "Someone made guardian of a charming, idle heir watches them court one person after another.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 161, "story": 18,
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"summary": "Two other young women watch the heir jealously; next evening he raves to the father about the heiress, though a fortnight earlier he had called another girl a goddess.",
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"predicament": "A charmer who swore devotion to one person a fortnight ago now swears the same devotion to another.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 162, "story": 18,
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"summary": "Told to propose to the heiress and settle down, the heir confesses he is secretly engaged to one girl and has said things to another that she may take for a proposal.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has made promises to several people at once wants to marry yet another, and looks for a way out.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 163, "story": 18,
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"summary": "He kept both engagements quiet by telling each girl that his trustee disliked her and controlled his money; he has also as good as proposed to the heiress.",
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"predicament": "Someone has kept several secret engagements quiet by telling each partner that a guardian stands in the way.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 164, "story": 18,
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"summary": "The father dictates plain letters breaking off both engagements, makes the heir sign them, and has the butler post them before he can lose them.",
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"predicament": "Someone tangled in several promises is made to write plainly to each person that it is over.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 165, "story": 18,
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"summary": "Kept overnight at the father's house, the heir dreads the letters' arrival; one of the girls telephones him at breakfast.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has broken off by letter dreads the reply and is caught before they can hide from it.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 166, "story": 18,
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"summary": "Both girls, puzzled rather than angry, ask him to call and explain; the father tells him to be a man, say plainly he does not love them enough to marry, and hold firm.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has broken off with two people is summoned by both to explain, and must stay firm in person.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "tell each person plainly that you do not love them enough to marry, and stick to it", "outcome": "not stated", "quote": "Tell 'em plain and straight that you don't love 'em as you should to marry 'em", "stance": "do"}]},
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{"chunk": 167, "story": 18,
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"summary": "On his way to be firm the heir sends flowers to all three women, and returns hours later claiming a satisfactory beginning.",
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"predicament": "Someone who promised to end things firmly sends each person flowers on the way to do it.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 168, "story": 18,
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"summary": "The heir swears at the father's meddling and claims to be breaking off more gently; the father tells him he is tied tighter than ever, and goes to the evening's dance to watch.",
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"predicament": "Someone who chose a gentler way of breaking promises finds they are more tightly bound than before.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "break off gently and in person, with gifts and soft words", "outcome": "you end up more tightly bound than before", "quote": "You're tied up to them harder and tighter than ever.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 169, "story": 18,
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"summary": "At the dance one girl's married sister publicly congratulates the heir on his engagement while he is with the heiress; then the other girl appears, carrying his lilies.",
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"predicament": "Someone courting a new partner in public is ambushed by others announcing that they are already engaged.",
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"advice": []},
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{"chunk": 170, "story": 18,
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"summary": "A second man congratulates him on the other engagement, the heiress laughs at her twice-lucky suitor, and the heir flees to Europe, begging the father to hush it up.",
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"predicament": "Someone whose double dealing has been exposed in public flees rather than face anyone involved.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "try to hush up a scandal that is already public", "outcome": "it cannot be stopped", "quote": "Hush it up! You might as well say 'Shoo!' to the Limited and expect it to stop for you.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 171, "story": 18,
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"summary": "On the ship the heir is already charming another young woman; a widow has since tamed him; the father wants no second such case in the family and asks the son what's what.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has barely escaped one tangle of promises is already charming the next person in sight.",
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"advice": []}
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]
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