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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": 56,
"story": 4,
"summary": "A village carpenter who wins laughs by mocking the priest and working through Mass is the priest's secret rival of ten years, and may be elected mayor.",
"predicament": "A man whose standing rests on openly mocking the local authority is locked in a long, quiet rivalry with it."
},
{
"chunk": 57,
"story": 4,
"summary": "The priest wins money to replace the church pews; the village teases the carpenter, the job goes to an outsider, and word spreads that his opinions are the only bar to his getting it.",
"predicament": "A man learns a well-paid job he could do is going to an outsider, because of the opinions he has flaunted."
},
{
"chunk": 58,
"story": 4,
"summary": "Greed drives the carpenter into the church at dusk, where he feels in his enemy's house; he stammers that he has come about the work while the priest pretends not to understand.",
"predicament": "Greed drives a man to go cap in hand to his old rival, who pretends not to know what he has come for."
},
{
"chunk": 59,
"story": 4,
"summary": "The priest feigns outrage that the parish's one unbeliever should ask, then names his price: the carpenter must take communion publicly at high Mass on Sunday.",
"predicament": "A rival offers a man the work he wants on one condition: a public act that renounces everything he has boasted of."
},
{
"chunk": 60,
"story": 4,
"summary": "The carpenter agrees, asks to put it off, and balks at the confessional box; the priest, now friendly, insists on two confessions first but lets him make them in the parlour.",
"predicament": "A man who has agreed to humble himself for gain haggles over every detail of how publicly he must do it."
},
{
"chunk": 61,
"story": 4,
"summary": "He shakes on the bargain, dreads it all the next day like a tooth-pulling, and at the parsonage is made to kneel, ashamed, not even knowing the opening prayer.",
"predicament": "A man who traded his principles for a job must now kneel before his old rival and go through with it."
},
{
"chunk": 62,
"story": 4,
"summary": "Questioned commandment by commandment, he says he loves God as much as he can, though maybe not more than his children or a hundred francs, and never swears except when angry.",
"predicament": "A man forced to account for himself insists he is blameless while admitting, clause by clause, to every small failing."
},
{
"chunk": 63,
"story": 4,
"summary": "He works on Sundays, calls himself an honest man while admitting he pads bills for rich customers, and denies lying while admitting he tells tales when it pays.",
"predicament": "A man who calls himself honest admits, without seeing the contradiction, that he pads bills and bends the truth for gain."
},
{
"chunk": 64,
"story": 4,
"summary": "He swears he has never deceived his wife, then admits visiting brothels in town, but always paying; he is absolved, does the work, and takes communion every month.",
"predicament": "A man who swallowed his pride for profit gets what he wanted and keeps up the show of conversion ever after."
}
]