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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": 255,
"story": 31,
"summary": "After a proverb, the narrator describes a rough young man who has comfortably nursed an unrequited attachment for four years to a girl long since married.",
"predicament": "A young man at the start of his career nurses an old unrequited attachment, enjoying the gloom more than he admits."
},
{
"chunk": 256,
"story": 31,
"summary": "He sees in a passing rickshaw the living image of his old love, a married woman visiting for the season, and decides to get to know her and pretend for a while.",
"predicament": "A man meets a married woman who is the image of his lost love, and befriends her to relive the past."
},
{
"chunk": 257,
"story": 31,
"summary": "He contrives to see her constantly and deceives himself thoroughly: every look, gesture and tone is his old love's, though her nature is entirely different.",
"predicament": "A man devotes himself to someone only because she resembles another, and wilfully deceives himself about what he is doing."
},
{
"chunk": 258,
"story": 31,
"summary": "Bored by anything about her own life, he betrays himself; she asks why he attends her when he plainly does not care for her, and he blurts that he does not.",
"predicament": "Pressed by a woman to explain his constant attentions, a man blurts out that he does not really care for her at all."
},
{
"chunk": 259,
"story": 31,
"summary": "She scornfully learns she is a lay-figure for his old love; the season ends and he goes back to work, but cannot tell which woman fills his thoughts.",
"predicament": "Having used a woman as a stand-in for a lost love, a man can no longer tell which of them he thinks of."
},
{
"chunk": 260,
"story": 31,
"summary": "Her husband is transferred and she stays a week in the young man's station; he realises he has fallen for her, an honest married woman, and curses his folly.",
"predicament": "A man realises he has fallen for a good, married woman he began courting only as a likeness, and curses his own folly."
},
{
"chunk": 261,
"story": 31,
"summary": "She gently turns aside his remarks and thanks him as one who knows it was all for the likeness; at the station he tells her he hopes never to see her face again, and she understands.",
"predicament": "Loving a married woman who treats him kindly as a mere stand-in, a man parts from her hoping never to see her again."
}
]