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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"chunk": 195,
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"story": 24,
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"summary": "After an epigraph, one young official sells another a vicious horse that nearly kills him; the seller laughs it off, and the buyer vows to get even if it takes five years.",
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"predicament": "Sold a dangerous bargain by a colleague who laughs it off, a man vows to make him pay for it if it takes years."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 196,
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"story": 24,
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"summary": "The seller is an earnest young enthusiast for developing the province's agriculture; the buyer watches him and boasts he will chase him till he drops.",
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"predicament": "A vengeful colleague studies an earnest rival's enthusiasms, looking for a way to turn the system itself against him."
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},
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"chunk": 197,
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"story": 24,
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"summary": "The narrator explains that the government will set whole departments to answering any man who seems earnest, and that earnestness is easily faked.",
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"predicament": "In a system that answers anyone who seems earnest, a man who fakes earnestness can make endless work for others."
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},
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"chunk": 198,
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"story": 24,
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"summary": "The vengeful man proposes a scheme to feed the army on pig and has the government order his rival to supply information; the rival, flattered, begins with an essay on the primitive pig.",
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"predicament": "Through an official request, a rival is ordered to supply you with information, and he eagerly walks into the trap you set."
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},
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"chunk": 199,
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"story": 24,
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"summary": "The rival produces maps, tables and surveys, sitting up nights on top of his own work and a special duty elsewhere, too proud to seem ignorant.",
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"predicament": "Eager not to look ignorant, a conscientious junior sits up nights answering endless requests on top of his real work."
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},
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"chunk": 200,
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"story": 24,
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"summary": "New questions draw ever longer answers and a thirty-three-page theory, all carefully filed by the vengeful man, who asks for more.",
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"predicament": "Question after question draws a conscientious man into ever longer answers, every page carefully filed by the one who means him harm."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 201,
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"story": 24,
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"summary": "After fourteen months of questions on bristles and hides, the weary rival writes a flippant suggestion that his correspondent raise his pigs before tanning them.",
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"predicament": "After more than a year of pointless demands, an exhausted man lets slip one flippant reply to the person who keeps asking."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 202,
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"story": 24,
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"summary": "When a question seems to reopen everything, the rival writes only consult my first letter; the vengeful man complains formally; a new head rebukes the rival, who pleads for leave.",
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"predicament": "Seizing on one careless reply, a rival complains to those above, and the exhausted victim is rebuked for failing in his duty."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 203,
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"story": 24,
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"summary": "The vengeful man sends the rival's letter and essay to a newspaper that mocks him; shaken and ridiculed, the rival confronts him and gets only mild sympathy.",
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"predicament": "Publicly mocked for work extracted by a false request, a man confronts the colleague who set him up and gets only false sympathy."
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}
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