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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": 112,
"story": 14,
"summary": "After an epigraph, the narrator argues that marriages arranged by mature, discreet people are sounder than love matches, since lovers cannot see straight.",
"predicament": "Those who arrange marriages for the young claim to know better than the lovers, who cannot see straight when they choose."
},
{
"chunk": 113,
"story": 14,
"summary": "He proposes a matrimonial department, then introduces a quiet, self-contained young official with a brilliant career, praised by all his superiors for knowing when to hold his tongue.",
"predicament": "A quiet, model junior with a brilliant career ahead is about to throw it away, and everyone above him is alarmed."
},
{
"chunk": 114,
"story": 14,
"summary": "He falls in love with a good, lovely girl from a poor family his world considers socially impossible; the match would weigh on his career for ever, and he will hear no remonstrance.",
"predicament": "A promising junior insists on marrying someone his whole circle considers impossible, a match that would weigh on his career for ever."
},
{
"chunk": 115,
"story": 14,
"summary": "Argument only fixes him in his purpose; the clever society woman attends a council of three men on his case and proposes a plan.",
"predicament": "Argument only hardens a young man's resolve on a ruinous match, so a clever meddler devises a plan to stop it by other means."
},
{
"chunk": 116,
"story": 14,
"summary": "He finds himself gazetted on leave, is carried off by camel with the three men for seven weeks, and the wedding day passes with no bridegroom while the bride's family is mocked.",
"predicament": "Friends arrange for a young man to be carried off until the day he was to marry has passed, leaving the bride's family humiliated."
},
{
"chunk": 117,
"story": 14,
"summary": "The bride's father comes raging and shows his coarseness; the young man keeps quiet, the girl refuses to sue and marries someone else, and he returns to his career and a suitable future match.",
"predicament": "Brought back after a forced absence, a young man faces his jilted bride's furious family and quietly lets the match die."
}
]