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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": 44,
"story": 5,
"summary": "After an epigraph, the narrator introduces a conceited, popular man who means to propose to the prettier of two sisters, and warns against praising a sister to a sister.",
"predicament": "A conceited man who means to propose must choose between two close sisters, and everyone around them assumes they know which one."
},
{
"chunk": 45,
"story": 5,
"summary": "The sisters go everywhere together, each wary of the other; he divides his attentions evenly and gives no sign.",
"predicament": "Two sisters who both hope for the same man never let each other out of sight, while he gives no sign either way."
},
{
"chunk": 46,
"story": 5,
"summary": "As the hot weather nears and he still says nothing, both sisters grow strained, one more acid and the other less winning.",
"predicament": "As the season closes and a suitor still says nothing, two hopeful sisters grow strained and sharp with the waiting."
},
{
"chunk": 47,
"story": 5,
"summary": "He gives a moonlight riding picnic, and the whole small station knows he means to propose there.",
"predicament": "Everyone in a small society knows a proposal is planned for one particular evening, and gathers to watch it happen."
},
{
"chunk": 48,
"story": 5,
"summary": "On the ride out the narrator sees a dust-storm gathering but says nothing to spoil the well-managed party.",
"predicament": "An onlooker sees trouble gathering during a well-managed gathering and keeps quiet rather than spoil everyone's evening."
},
{
"chunk": 49,
"story": 5,
"summary": "A violent dust-storm plunges the party into roaring darkness, and everyone huddles blindly by the horses.",
"predicament": "A sudden storm throws a festive gathering into roaring darkness, and everyone huddles together blindly, waiting for it to pass."
},
{
"chunk": 50,
"story": 5,
"summary": "The younger sister begs to be taken home; then the suitor grabs the narrator and shouts that he has proposed to the wrong sister.",
"predicament": "In the confusion a man realises he has proposed to the wrong woman, and turns to a near-stranger for help."
},
{
"chunk": 51,
"story": 5,
"summary": "He insists he loved the younger sister all along; the elder comes up radiant and takes his arm while the younger mounts and rides away.",
"predicament": "A man must undo a proposal to one sister, who is radiant with happiness, while the one he truly loves flees in tears."
},
{
"chunk": 52,
"story": 5,
"summary": "Overexcited, the narrator takes charge, tells the suitor to stay and explain himself, and goes to fetch the younger sister.",
"predicament": "A bystander impulsively takes charge of someone else's romantic blunder, sending the man to explain while he fetches the other woman."
},
{
"chunk": 53,
"story": 5,
"summary": "He chases her across dangerous ground through the tail of the storm while she shouts at him to go away.",
"predicament": "A bystander chases a heartbroken woman across dangerous ground in the dark, trying to bring her back to hear something."
},
{
"chunk": 54,
"story": 5,
"summary": "Her horse goes lame; she begs to be let alone, and he tells her awkwardly that the suitor has something to say to her.",
"predicament": "A near-stranger must persuade a distraught woman to come back and hear a declaration he cannot bring himself to make for her."
},
{
"chunk": 55,
"story": 5,
"summary": "They ride back at dawn; the suitor kisses her in front of the whole picnic, who applaud as at a play.",
"predicament": "A man publicly claims the woman he truly loves before the whole gathering, while the sister he proposed to looks on."
},
{
"chunk": 56,
"story": 5,
"summary": "The party rides home in pairs, the narrator escorting the elder sister, and everyone drops back into ordinary life.",
"predicament": "After a night of upheaval, a bystander escorts home the jilted sister, and everyone quietly agrees to treat the night as forgotten."
}
]