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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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"Chapter 4: The ball at the Mansion House.",
"Chapter 5: After the Mansion House Ball. Carrie offended. Gowing also offended. A",
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"Chapter 8: Daisy Mutlar sole topic of conversation. Lupin’s new berth. Fireworks ",
"Chapter 14: Begin the year with an unexpected promotion at the office. I make two ",
"Chapter 18: Trouble with a stylographic pen. We go to a Volunteer Ball, where I am",
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"text": "Write a letter so carefully worded that it apologises for you.",
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"text": "Send a costly peace offering.",
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"text": "Say nothing, and wait for them to come to you.",
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"text": "Take their flimsy excuse and laugh it off.",
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{
"text": "Say plainly, once, what hurt you, and let it go.",
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10,
12,
17,
21
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"Chapter 6: The Unexpected Arrival Home of our Son, Willie Lupin Pooter.",
"Chapter 11: We have a dose of Irving imitations. Make the acquaintance of a Mr. Pa",
"Chapter 13: I receive an insulting Christmas card. We spend a pleasant Christmas a",
"Chapter 18: Trouble with a stylographic pen. We go to a Volunteer Ball, where I am",
"Chapter 22: Master Percy Edgar Smith James. Mrs. James (of Sutton) visits us again"
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}
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"text": "Tell them pointedly that you are engaged tomorrow.",
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2,
13,
18,
21
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"Chapter 3: A conversation with Mr. Merton on Society. Mr. and Mrs. James, of Sutt",
"Chapter 14: Begin the year with an unexpected promotion at the office. I make two ",
"Chapter 19: Meet Teddy Finsworth, an old schoolfellow. We have a pleasant and quie",
"Chapter 22: Master Percy Edgar Smith James. Mrs. James (of Sutton) visits us again"
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}
],
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"text": "Tell it, and laugh loud enough for everyone.",
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{
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{
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{
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{
"text": "Keep it to yourself: the moment is wrong.",
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}
]
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"name": "A mishap at the very moment of dignity",
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2,
6,
7,
10,
11
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"Chapter 3: A conversation with Mr. Merton on Society. Mr. and Mrs. James, of Sutt",
"Chapter 7: Home again. Mrs. James’ influence on Carrie. Can get nothing for Lupin",
"Chapter 8: Daisy Mutlar sole topic of conversation. Lupin’s new berth. Fireworks ",
"Chapter 11: We have a dose of Irving imitations. Make the acquaintance of a Mr. Pa",
"Chapter 12: A serious discussion concerning the use and value of my diary. Lupin’s"
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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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"predicament": "A man demands to know who destroyed his cherished private record, and his cutting retort is spoiled when he smashes a treasured gift."
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{
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"standing": "+"
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{
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"text": "Laugh at yourself first.",
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"standing": "+",
"tact": "+"
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4,
9,
11,
17
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"middle": 1
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"chunk": 77,
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{
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{
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{
"text": "Doctor the price so the present looks dearer.",
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{
"text": "Live plainly and say so without apology.",
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4,
8,
17
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"middle": 3
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"chunk": 60,
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"chunk": 113,
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{
"text": "Invite them home on the spur of the moment, and improvise.",
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{
"text": "Help everyone lavishly, and trust that it is all provided.",
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{
"text": "Pay what you must, and hide the damage from your wife.",
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{
"text": "Offer a plain evening you can afford, and say so.",
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"standing": "-"
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17,
18,
19,
22
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"text": "Accept every invitation from above: you cannot afford to offend.",
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"text": "Ask your host about his things before you give opinions on them.",
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20,
22
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{
"text": "Refuse, in writing, to be drawn into the argument.",
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"text": "Tell yourself you are happy because you are not ambitious.",
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"text": "Answer that a steady life is a choice, and say why.",
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2,
3,
4,
9,
12
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"text": "Insist you were in the right, calmly and at length.",
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"text": "Say it is merely a matter of taste.",
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"text": "Admit you drank more than you meant, and apologise.",
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"standing": "-"
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18,
21
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"text": "Declare that you are master in this house.",
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"text": "Vow never to mention it again.",
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"text": "Refuse to take part, and sit somewhere else.",
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"text": "Give way, and treat them as they want to be treated.",
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7,
9,
11,
12,
20,
22
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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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"text": "Tell him plainly that beggars cannot be choosers.",
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"text": "Leave the room with silent dignity.",
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"text": "Let his mother put him in his place.",
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"text": "Defend your employer and your friends to his face.",
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9,
14,
22
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"text": "Tell him exactly what you think of the match.",
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"Chapter 7: Home again. Mrs. James’ influence on Carrie. Can get nothing for Lupin",
"Chapter 15: Gowing explains his conduct. Lupin takes us for a drive, which we don’",
"Chapter 17: Marriage of Daisy Mutlar and Murray Posh. The dream of my life realise"
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"predicament": "A father's long-held dream comes within reach when his employer asks him to bring his wayward son in to be seen."
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"predicament": "A father whose employer takes his son into the firm can only stammer his thanks, and is told he is the example to follow."
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"predicament": "A father whose son has joined him at work lies awake imagining them sharing everything, from the daily journey to the garden."
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"text": "Write to every firm you know.",
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"text": "Ask your own employer to take him on.",
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"text": "Confide your worries about him to the employer.",
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"text": "Order him to withdraw his resignation and apologise.",
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"text": "Leave him to find his own place.",
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20,
21
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"Chapter 16: We lose money over Lupin’s advice as to investment, so does Cummings. ",
"Chapter 21: Lupin is discharged. We are in great trouble. Lupin gets engaged elsew",
"Chapter 22: Master Percy Edgar Smith James. Mrs. James (of Sutton) visits us again"
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{
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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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"chunk": 134,
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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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{
"chunk": 137,
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"predicament": "A guest kicked by his hosts' spoilt child objects, and the mother retorts that his own son is no model either."
}
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"text": "Change the subject.",
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"tact": "+",
"relationships.friends": "-"
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"in_group": true
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{
"text": "Keep the complaint to yourself.",
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"composure": "+"
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"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Disown what he did, in writing.",
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"relationships.child": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Console the injured party yourself.",
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"relationships.friends": "+"
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"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Defend him: he is only a boy.",
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"relationships.employer": "-",
"standing": "-"
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"in_group": null
}
]
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"predicament": "Your grown son has found an easy road to money, and wants you to spend, invest or rejoice on the strength of it.",
"sentence": "A careful father wants to keep what he has from a son with a sure thing.",
"actor": "careful father",
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13,
14,
15
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"Chapter 9: Our first important Party. Old Friends and New Friends. Gowing is a li",
"Chapter 14: Begin the year with an unexpected promotion at the office. I make two ",
"Chapter 15: Gowing explains his conduct. Lupin takes us for a drive, which we don’",
"Chapter 16: We lose money over Lupin’s advice as to investment, so does Cummings. "
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"middle": 4
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"predicament": "A couple preparing their first important party hope the husband's employer might come, while their son pushes them into extravagance."
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{
"chunk": 91,
"story": 13,
"predicament": "A father's reward for long years of steady work is outshone the same evening by his son's windfall from speculation."
},
{
"chunk": 99,
"story": 14,
"predicament": "A father braced for bad news is so relieved his son has given up an extravagance that he opens the good wine."
},
{
"chunk": 101,
"story": 15,
"predicament": "A father who invested on his son's confident tip learns the shares have collapsed, and at first mistakes his loss for a profit."
},
{
"chunk": 102,
"story": 15,
"predicament": "A father learns his son risked none of his own money on the tip he urged on everyone, and a friend offloaded his share."
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"text": "Put your savings in on his tip.",
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"relationships.child": "+"
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"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Let him pay for the show, and worry quietly.",
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"in_group": true
},
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"text": "Tell him to his face that speculation is horrifying.",
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"composure": "+"
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"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Ask what he has risked himself before you risk a penny.",
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"tact": "+",
"money": "+"
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"id": "G19",
"name": "Your son's friends take over your home",
"predicament": "Your grown son's young friends have taken over your home with their own jokes and manners, and treat you as a fossil in your own chair.",
"sentence": "A householder and father wants his house back from his son's set.",
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7,
8,
10,
12
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"Chapter 9: Our first important Party. Old Friends and New Friends. Gowing is a li",
"Chapter 11: We have a dose of Irving imitations. Make the acquaintance of a Mr. Pa",
"Chapter 13: I receive an insulting Christmas card. We spend a pleasant Christmas a"
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{
"chunk": 58,
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{
"chunk": 59,
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{
"chunk": 65,
"story": 10,
"predicament": "A son brings home a self-important friend who monopolises the evening and corrects his host on how to address him."
},
{
"chunk": 67,
"story": 10,
"predicament": "A host finds his home taken over by a young guest's performances and a stranger who sits in the best chair laughing."
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{
"chunk": 69,
"story": 10,
"predicament": "A young guest tells his older host, in his own home, to confine himself to talking about what he understands."
},
{
"chunk": 73,
"story": 10,
"predicament": "A father shows his son an insolent letter from the son's friend, and the son replies that the father should apologise."
},
{
"chunk": 82,
"story": 12,
"predicament": "A host's supper descends into horseplay led by his son's set, and his own old friends join in pelting him."
}
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"text": "Drop hints that it is late, and wait.",
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{
"text": "Rise and insist the foolery stops at once.",
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"text": "Ask them to stay to supper, to keep your son at home.",
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"text": "Show your son what his friend wrote of you, and expect him to take your side.",
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"in_group": true
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"text": "Leave the young ones to it and see your own friends elsewhere.",
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"standing": "-"
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