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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": 28,
"story": 4,
"summary": "Pooter wakes ill after the ball and blames the lobster mayonnaise; Carrie answers him sharply, says champagne never did agree with him, walks out mid-sentence and goes to bed without saying good-night.",
"predicament": "A husband suffering after a grand evening finds his wife coldly silent with him, and cannot see what he has done wrong."
},
{
"chunk": 29,
"story": 4,
"summary": "The local paper's list of ball guests leaves the Pooters out but names Farmerson; Pooter writes to complain. When he asks Carrie to explain her conduct, she demands an explanation of his, hints he was drunk, and sneers at his new friend the ironmonger.",
"predicament": "A husband who expects an apology from his wife is instead called to account for his drinking and fawning at a grand event."
},
{
"chunk": 30,
"story": 4,
"summary": "Carrie lists his sins: he let the vulgar ironmonger snub him, drank with him, gave him a lift and asked him in; Gowing then bursts in unannounced dressed as the Lord Mayor, and Pooter coldly rebukes him for the joke.",
"predicament": "A husband is told by his wife how he let a vulgar tradesman snub him in public and then fawned on him all evening."
},
{
"chunk": 31,
"story": 4,
"summary": "Gowing finds his walking-stick enamelled black, says it was his late uncle's and calls Pooter a bigger fool than he looks; the newspaper first misprints the Pooters' name and then mocks them as 'Pewter' for writing in to be listed; Carrie is away and Gowing stays offended.",
"predicament": "A man who improved an old friend's belonging without asking is told it was a treasured keepsake and called a fool."
},
{
"chunk": 32,
"story": 4,
"summary": "Pooter buys Gowing a silver-mounted stick as a peace offering, meaning to understate its price to Carrie; Gowing replies he was never offended and the old stick cost a shilling. Pooter's 'frayed' pun is laughed at by the bus-driver and the office but not by the shirtmaker; evening games resume, Gowing overstepping good taste.",
"predicament": "A man buys an offended old friend a costly peace offering, then learns the friend never cared and the loss was trifling."
},
{
"chunk": 33,
"story": 4,
"summary": "A pleasant evening of songs at the Cummingses', where Pooter objects to one verse of Stillbrook's comic song; then the shirtmaker charges more for mending the shirts than they cost new and answers Pooter's complaint with insolence.",
"predicament": "A tradesman charges more to mend something than it cost new, and meets the customer's complaint with open insolence."
},
{
"chunk": 34,
"story": 4,
"summary": "Pooter impulsively invites Franching, a man of some style, home to supper; Franching insists on a cab, nobody answers the front door, Pooter climbs in through the kitchen window, and Carrie reminds him it is the servant's day off and there is no food, so he runs out for chops.",
"predicament": "A man impulsively invites a grander acquaintance home, and finds the door locked, no help in the house and nothing to eat."
},
{
"chunk": 35,
"story": 4,
"summary": "The Pooters keep quarrelling at meals; Carrie jibes at his late father's money troubles and ends in tears. His principal orders him to take his holiday early; he dines out with Franching to avoid home, leaves Carrie a silver bangle, and bites back an argument about her holiday dress.",
"predicament": "A husband and wife keep flaring into quarrels over nothing, and he avoids home for an evening and brings back a peace offering."
},
{
"chunk": 36,
"story": 4,
"summary": "Carrie tells him his 'Good old' is vulgar and decides their holiday herself; at the office Pitt calls 'Hornpipe' at his loose trousers, so Pooter orders new ones and buys the coloured shirt and tan boots the smart clerks wear.",
"predicament": "After a younger colleague jeers at his clothes, a man buys the fashionable things the smarter young men at work are wearing."
},
{
"chunk": 37,
"story": 4,
"summary": "Carrie buys an absurdly long parasol because Mrs James has a longer one, and Pooter buys a straw sun-helmet and other holiday finery; then the landlady writes that she has let the whole house to another party.",
"predicament": "A couple spend on holiday finery to keep up with a fashionable friend, and then the lodgings they booked are given to others."
}
]