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": 123,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "Franching invites the Pooters at a few hours' notice to fill two empty places at a dinner for a celebrated American writer; Pooter overrides Carrie's objections because Franching is rich and influential, economises on the telegram, and they arrive too early.",
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"predicament": "A couple invited at the last moment to fill empty places at a wealthier man's dinner accept, since they cannot afford to offend him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 124,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "The party is distinguished, with a hired waiter, flowers and champagne; Pooter knows nobody, tells his host he prefers having no lady to take in, then realises it was uncomplimentary; he sits by a deaf lady while Hardfur Huttle does all the talking.",
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"predicament": "A modest guest at a distinguished dinner knows nobody, makes a tactless remark to his host, and sits silent while a celebrity talks."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 125,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "Huttle dazzles the table with 'unorthodox' opinions, keeps the ladies from withdrawing, and declares that the 'happy medium' means miserable mediocrity and respectability means insipidness, then asks Pooter whether that is not so.",
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"predicament": "A brilliant guest at a grand dinner mocks respectable middle ways, then turns and asks the modest man beside him to agree."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 126,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "Pooter can only say he is not competent to offer an opinion; Huttle goes on to scorn the half-hearted man in a suburban villa 'with a soft beard and a made tie that hooks on', and Pooter, who wears one, keeps glancing at himself in the glass.",
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"predicament": "A modest guest hears a celebrated talker sneer at exactly his kind of man and his clothes, and has no answer."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 127,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "Huttle praises Franching's plain home with no hired waiter and no grocer's champagne, making his host wince, and sneers at milksops who play dominoes at home with their wives and at frivolous matrons who think a suburban dance is Society; Pooter leaves early for his train.",
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"predicament": "A celebrated guest's praise of the host's plain living exposes the host's pretences, while his scorn for homebodies lands on another guest."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 128,
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"story": 19,
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"summary": "At home Carrie says Huttle is just like Lupin; Pooter lies awake reflecting that such ideas make or break men, that he himself is happy because he is not ambitious, and that Lupin, now at Perkupp's, seems content to follow his father's steps.",
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"predicament": "A contented man tells himself he is happy because he is not ambitious, and hopes his son will follow in his steps."
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}
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]
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