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": 129,
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"story": 20,
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"summary": "While Pooter and Mr Perkupp were both away ill, the firm's most valued client came in angry, and Lupin received him and recommended a rival firm; Lupin is dismissed, and Pooter, dreading his first ever hard word from his master, is summoned; Perkupp says he, not a junior, will decide when the firm modernises.",
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"predicament": "A long-serving man learns his son has driven the firm's most valued client to a rival, and must face his employer about it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 130,
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"story": 20,
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"summary": "Pooter asks whether Perkupp suspects him of countenancing his son, and Perkupp says he would as soon suspect himself; flustered, Pooter nearly calls him a 'grand old man'. Perkupp admits the firm cannot afford to lose the client and says Pooter can be of service.",
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"predicament": "A loyal man whose son has damaged the firm is assured of his employer's complete trust and asked to help repair it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 131,
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"story": 20,
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"summary": "Perkupp asks Pooter to write to the client as if on his own initiative, explaining the son was taken on only as an inexperienced favour, and hints he should not spare his son; he declines to see the letter, trusting Pooter, and gives him the day to write it.",
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"predicament": "The employer asks a loyal man to write privately to a lost client, disowning his own son's conduct as if unprompted."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 132,
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"story": 20,
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"summary": "Lupin appears in a new hat he says was a present from an old friend-turned-rival, calls Perkupp an inflated fool, and insists he did no injury: the client was simply tired of a stagnant firm, and he recommended the new one as good business.",
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"predicament": "A son who cost his father's employer its best client calls the employer a fool and insists he has done no harm."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 133,
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"story": 20,
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"summary": "The hat was a gift from Murray Posh, Daisy's husband, with whom Lupin is now friends and goes off to lunch; Pooter spends the whole day on the letter to the client, finding Carrie's suggestions useless, and Perkupp again declines to read it.",
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"predicament": "A father spends all day on a letter to undo his son's damage, while the son goes off to dine with his former rival."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 134,
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"story": 20,
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"summary": "Gowing, and then Carrie, side with Lupin, and Gowing drinks most of his own small bottle of Madeira. The client replies in a few lines that Pooter's son showed more intelligence in five minutes than the firm has in five years.",
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"predicament": "A father's careful appeal on his employer's behalf is answered in a few curt lines saying his son showed more sense than the firm."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 135,
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"story": 20,
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"summary": "Lupin receives a £25 commission from the rival firm; Cummings and Gowing take his part; Perkupp tells Pooter the matter is closed; then the rival firm engages Lupin at £200 a year, and Lupin tells his father to drop Perkupp's 'stagnant dummies' for the firm of the future.",
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"predicament": "A loyal man's son, hired by a rival firm at a handsome salary, urges his father to leave his stagnant employer too."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 136,
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"story": 20,
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"summary": "Lupin whoops, jumps a chair and rumples his father's hair before going out to dine with the Poshes; Gowing and Cummings congratulate Pooter, saying the boy has more in his head than the three of them, and Carrie calls him a second Hardfur Huttle.",
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"predicament": "A father whose son has prospered by defying everything he believes in is congratulated on the boy by his old friends."
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}
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]
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