Files
TheLadder/tools/story-to-pack/probe/plaintales/claude/batches/s15.json
T
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

50 lines
2.6 KiB
JSON

[
{
"chunk": 118,
"story": 15,
"summary": "After a soldier's anecdote as epigraph, a vain young officer who prides himself on looking like an officer and a gentleman rides down from the hills at the very end of his leave.",
"predicament": "A vain young man who prides himself on always looking the part cuts his return from leave as fine as he dares."
},
{
"chunk": 119,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Dressed in a new suit and white helmet, he leaves his money at the hotel and sends his servants ahead; a monsoon downpour begins.",
"predicament": "Setting off in his finest clothes with almost no money, a man who prides himself on organisation is caught in a downpour."
},
{
"chunk": 120,
"story": 15,
"summary": "He is thrown by a pony, his helmet dissolves into pulp, and the cheap dyes of his clothes run in every colour down his body.",
"predicament": "Mile by mile, rain and mud strip a proud man of every mark of his respectability until he looks like a vagrant."
},
{
"chunk": 121,
"story": 15,
"summary": "At the railway station, with six annas to his name and no servants, he asks for a ticket; the staff telegraph for authority and then seize him.",
"predicament": "Filthy and penniless, a man asks for what he is owed, and those in charge take him for the fugitive they seek."
},
{
"chunk": 122,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Handcuffed after a scuffle, he is told he matches the description of a deserter; the more he explains, the less the stationmaster believes him.",
"predicament": "Mistaken for a wanted man, someone explains at length who he really is, and the more he explains, the less anyone believes him."
},
{
"chunk": 123,
"story": 15,
"summary": "At the next station he is handed to a corporal who calls him a disgrace to the service and tells him to hold his tongue.",
"predicament": "Held by people far beneath him who take him for a fraud, a man tries to carry it off lightly and is silenced."
},
{
"chunk": 124,
"story": 15,
"summary": "His swearing wins the soldiers' admiration, but he tries to run, is knocked down with his shirt torn off, just as one of his own senior officers arrives.",
"predicament": "Losing his temper in custody, a wrongly held man tries to run, is knocked down, and is found so by someone he knows."
},
{
"chunk": 125,
"story": 15,
"summary": "The senior officer recognises him; he begs him not to tell the mess, then spends the summer trying to have his captors court-martialled while the story spreads through the province.",
"predicament": "Rescued from a humiliating mistake, a man begs his superior to keep it quiet, then wastes months seeking redress as the story spreads."
}
]