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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": 217,
"story": 26,
"summary": "After an epigraph about a husband who has come to hate his wife, the narrator introduces a coarse, grizzled, middle-aged officer and his pale, quiet, much younger wife.",
"predicament": "A middle-aged man has grown weary of the wife he sits across from every day, and she is too quiet to resist him."
},
{
"chunk": 218,
"story": 26,
"summary": "He torments her with years of brutal chaff about her headaches, her looks and her love for her children, and she stays devoted to him.",
"predicament": "A wife endures years of heavy, mocking jokes about her looks, her weaknesses and her love for her children."
},
{
"chunk": 219,
"story": 26,
"summary": "At dinner he gives their small son wine until he cries and is removed, then sends his wife from the table while the guests sit angry and helpless.",
"predicament": "A husband humiliates his wife and small child in front of guests, who sit angry and uncomfortable and say nothing."
},
{
"chunk": 220,
"story": 26,
"summary": "He brings a criminal charge against a man who had been attentive to his wife, resting on servants' evidence; two-thirds of the station believe it, and the accused knows even acquittal on doubt will blacken him.",
"predicament": "Accused of an affair on bought evidence, a man knows that even an acquittal on doubt will blacken his name for his whole career."
},
{
"chunk": 221,
"story": 26,
"summary": "The accused's friends telegraph for the master of disguise, now married, who comes gladly, spends three weeks disguised about the accuser's house, and finds the case invented from start to finish.",
"predicament": "Friends of a falsely accused man call in the one person who can find the truth, and he secretly proves it is a frame-up."
},
{
"chunk": 222,
"story": 26,
"summary": "In court he greets the chief witness with a private word that shows he knows all, and the terrified man recants every detail.",
"predicament": "At the hearing, a man who knows every witness's secret merely lets them see him, and the key witness collapses and recants."
},
{
"chunk": 223,
"story": 26,
"summary": "The other witnesses flee, the accuser's counsel throws up the case, and the accused thrashes the accuser behind the court cells.",
"predicament": "The fabricated case collapses in public, and the falsely accused man takes his own quiet revenge on his accuser."
},
{
"chunk": 224,
"story": 26,
"summary": "The wife blames herself, asks the station not to shun her or her child, and nurses her husband; the counter-charge is hushed up and they go home.",
"predicament": "After her husband's plot collapses, a mistreated wife blames herself, forgives him, and begs society to welcome her child again."
}
]