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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": 231,
"story": 28,
"summary": "After an incantation as epigraph, the narrator tells the history of a tiny silver box holding a carved fish, a love-charm that works only if it has been stolen.",
"predicament": "A charm said to win anyone's love works only if it is stolen, and ruins whoever merely buys or finds it."
},
{
"chunk": 232,
"story": 28,
"summary": "Unless stolen it turns on its owner within three years; a young official bought it as a curiosity without knowing, and a man who recognised it said nothing.",
"predicament": "A man recognises a dangerous object in a colleague's collection and says nothing, knowing any share in it is risky."
},
{
"chunk": 233,
"story": 28,
"summary": "A small, disliked, worthless officer is blindly infatuated with a good, tall young woman who looks on him as vermin; the whole station laughs.",
"predicament": "A small, disliked man is hopelessly infatuated with someone who despises him, and the whole community laughs at his devotion."
},
{
"chunk": 234,
"story": 28,
"summary": "The collector grumbles at the club about his run of bad luck; the man who knew tells him the charm's story half in jest; the infatuated officer, lunching unseen beyond the arch, hears every word.",
"predicament": "Grumbling about a run of bad luck, a man hears a half-joking explanation, while a desperate rival overhears every word."
},
{
"chunk": 235,
"story": 28,
"summary": "The infatuated officer calls while the collector is out and steals the box; three days later the young woman astonishes everyone by accepting him.",
"predicament": "A desperate suitor steals a colleague's prized possession, and within days the woman who despised him accepts his proposal."
},
{
"chunk": 236,
"story": 28,
"summary": "The man who knew persuades the collector, whose luck has turned, to burgle the suitor's hotel room during a dance; they find the box under his papers.",
"predicament": "Convinced a rival won by theft, two men decide to search his belongings, knowing that if they are wrong they are the thieves."
},
{
"chunk": 237,
"story": 28,
"summary": "The collector takes it back and calls the suitor a thief; the young woman breaks off the engagement and he leaves; the charm is hidden on a pony's necklace.",
"predicament": "With the stolen thing recovered, the thief is named in private, his engagement collapses, and he quietly takes himself elsewhere."
},
{
"chunk": 238,
"story": 28,
"summary": "The narrator challenges the doubting reader to keep such a box three years, or better, steal it and be sorry.",
"predicament": "Anyone who comes upon such a thing must choose between keeping it honestly and stealing it, and either may ruin them."
}
]