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": 13,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Cummings brings his wine-merchant friend Merton, who agrees the Pooters are no swells; Pooter declares they avoid Society because they do not care for it, and Merton flatters him into ordering a dozen whisky and promises free theatre passes anywhere in London.",
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"predicament": "A modest householder who claims to scorn fashionable society is flattered by a new acquaintance into buying drink on promised favours."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 14,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Carrie wants to treat her old school friend and her husband, the Jameses, to the theatre, so Pooter asks Merton for passes; Merton sends seats for a minor theatre along with his bill, and Mr James insists on paying the bus fares.",
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"predicament": "A man sets out to treat his wife's old friends to an evening out, relying on free tickets promised by a new acquaintance."
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},
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"chunk": 15,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "At the theatre the passes are refused as out of date; while Pooter argues with the manager, James quietly pays for a private box for all four.",
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"predicament": "A host finds his free tickets refused at the door in front of his guests, and one guest quietly pays for better seats."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 16,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Pooter's clip-on tie falls into the pit and is trodden on, James remarks that his beard hides its absence, and Pooter spends the play with his chin down; next day he writes Merton a cutting letter and misspells 'appreciate' in it.",
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"predicament": "A host humiliated in front of his guests writes a cutting complaint to the acquaintance responsible, and misspells the very word that mattered."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 17,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Carrie proposes making it up to the Jameses with a card evening; Pooter takes up enamel paint and paints flower-pots, the servant's furniture, the coal-scuttle and at last the bath red, dismissing the servant's and Carrie's objections.",
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"predicament": "A husband seized by a home-improvement craze redecorates without asking his wife, and dismisses everyone else's opinion as bad taste."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 18,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Cummings drops in and sneers at Pooter's joke about being the dummy at whist; when Gowing arrives Pooter makes a pun on 'Gowing always coming and Cummings always going', and he and Carrie laugh until his chair breaks.",
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"predicament": "A host makes a pun on his two old friends' names and laughs at it until the chair gives way beneath him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 19,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Neither friend laughs; both take offence at a pun on their names and leave. At the office the cheeky junior Pitt apologises humbly, and an hour later Pooter is hit in the face by a ball of paper thrown by one of the clerks, who all look busy.",
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"predicament": "A senior's threat to report a cheeky junior brings a humble apology, and an hour later a missile from the juniors' desks."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 20,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Taking a very hot bath for a cold, Pooter sees his hand turn red and believes he is bleeding to death, until he realises the red enamel on the bath has dissolved; he resolves to have it repainted without telling Carrie.",
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"predicament": "A man whose home improvement has gone ridiculously wrong decides to hide it from his wife and have it quietly put right."
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}
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]
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