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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{
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"chunk": 42,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "A man reads a much-crossed letter from abroad at New Year and tells a friend how, twenty years before, his employer sent him off to inspect a wrecked ship instead of spending the holiday in the city.",
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"predicament": "A man receives his yearly letter from someone far away and is reminded of the chance meeting that began it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 43,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "With two hours to wait he wanders the old port town, then boards a small steamer for the island on a cold, foggy, dispiriting day.",
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"predicament": "A man sent alone on an errand over the holiday passes a gloomy day travelling among strangers."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 44,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "Crossing a dead, flat sea, he questions the steamer's captain; his task is to judge for the insurers whether everything was done to refloat the stranded ship.",
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"predicament": "A man sent to judge a loss on behalf of those who must pay for it seeks the facts from someone who was there."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 45,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "The captain points out the distant wreck and explains he can walk out to it dry-shod at low tide but must leave by a fixed hour or be caught by the returning sea.",
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"predicament": "A newcomer is told by a local exactly how long he can safely stay out before the danger returns."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 46,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "After lunch he sets out across the vast drained sands, marvelling at the vanished sea, toward the wreck growing on the horizon like a stranded whale.",
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"predicament": "A man walks alone into a strange, empty place that is safe to cross for only a few hours."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 47,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "He climbs into the shattered hull, full of sand, and sits taking notes, shivering at the loneliness and the scratching of crabs.",
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"predicament": "A man working alone in an abandoned place grows uneasy at every small sound around him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 48,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "Startled by voices, he finds an English traveller with three daughters; asked if he owns the ship, he says yes, lets them aboard, and is taken with the pretty eldest girl.",
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"predicament": "Surprised by strangers, a man passes himself off as the owner of the place and is charmed by a young visitor."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 49,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "He tells the story of the wreck as though he had witnessed it; the family sketch the hold while he listens, enchanted, to the eldest girl talk, until she hears a sound.",
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"predicament": "A man showing strangers around embroiders a story he never witnessed, to hold the attention of a young woman."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 50,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "The tide has surrounded the wreck; he stops the father from jumping into hidden channels, and they must wait aboard as night falls and the water deepens.",
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"predicament": "A man who lingered too long to impress a stranger realises he has trapped them all, with no way back."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 51,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "Huddled against the stern in the freezing dark, he feels the girl trembling against him and is astonished to find himself happy to be in danger beside her.",
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"predicament": "In real danger beside a young stranger, a man finds he feels only a strange happiness at being close to her."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 52,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "The youngest daughter sobs; he forces his cloak on the eldest; the wind rises and each wave shakes the rotten hull, and he longs to take her in his arms.",
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"predicament": "As the danger grows, a man presses his care on a young woman he barely knows and longs to hold her."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 53,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "At midnight the father solemnly wishes him a happy New Year and the family sings their anthem into the dark; he asks the girl to sing alone, and her voice moves him.",
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"predicament": "Facing likely death together, a group of strangers keep up their courage with ceremony and song."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 54,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "The wreck lurches and the girl falls on him; he kisses her, thinking it the end; a rescue boat sent by the innkeeper finds them, and he is sorry to be saved.",
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"predicament": "A man who snatched a kiss in what he thought were his last moments is rescued and finds he regrets the rescue."
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{
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"chunk": 55,
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"story": 3,
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"summary": "The family leave the next day; he wanted to propose but did not; she married abroad and writes every New Year, never mentioning her husband, and he mourns the girl she was.",
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"predicament": "A man who let a brief chance at love slip past keeps it alive for years in yearly letters, regretting his hesitation."
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}
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]
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