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": 275,
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"story": 34,
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"summary": "After an epigraph, the narrator helps a drunken loafer singing a love song in a caravanserai, who talks of Oxford haunts as though he had never left them.",
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"predicament": "You meet a drunken, educated man who has fallen far from his old standing, and he talks as if he had never left it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 276,
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"story": 34,
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"summary": "The loafer, sobering, asks to be helped to his quarters among the horse-traders, apologising with literary flourishes for his disgrace.",
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"predicament": "A fallen man with a gentleman's manners asks a stranger to help him home, joking elegantly about his own disgrace."
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},
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"chunk": 277,
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"story": 34,
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"summary": "His companion scolds him; the narrator learns he is thirty-five though he looks fifty, and has cut himself off from his own people entirely and wants no notice.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has cut every tie with his own class lives openly outside it, and wants neither pity nor notice from anyone."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 278,
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"story": 34,
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"summary": "He refuses charity, accepts only tobacco and books, and agrees the narrator must visit him only after dark, saying he would have done the same in his days of standing.",
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"predicament": "A fallen man accepts your friendship only on equal terms, and understands perfectly why you can visit him only after dark."
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},
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"chunk": 279,
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"story": 34,
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"summary": "He lectures the narrator on his ignorance of the life around him, and they eat together with the woman who loves him and has stayed with him three years.",
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"predicament": "A fallen man patronises his visitor as ignorant of everything around him, while living contentedly by ways his old world despises."
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},
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"chunk": 280,
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"story": 34,
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"summary": "Drunk two days a week, he raves in Greek and German, and promises the narrator materials for a new Inferno that will make him famous.",
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"predicament": "A fallen man's head is full of useless learning, and between binges he promises you something that will make your name."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 281,
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"story": 34,
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"summary": "Recovering, he boasts that he can no longer feel shame or even a hangover, and insists such insensibility is enviable.",
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"predicament": "A man who has sunk as low as he can claims that feeling nothing any more is a blessing, and dares you to disagree."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 282,
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"story": 34,
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"summary": "He lists his consolations: his learning, his companion's love and a monument he has built in seven years, admitting he sold a book the narrator lent him.",
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"predicament": "A fallen man counts his consolations, admitting he has already sold the thing you lent him to buy drink."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 283,
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"story": 34,
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"summary": "He is proud and poor, refuses every gift and the hospital, and when pneumonia takes him he sends a note asking the narrator to help him die.",
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"predicament": "A proud, destitute man refuses every gift and any charity, and sends for you only when he is dying."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 284,
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"story": 34,
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"summary": "Dying, he drives off the doctor and has his companion bring out a bundle of manuscript, his book of what he saw and lived.",
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"predicament": "A dying man reveals the one great work he has secretly built through years of disgrace, and handles it like treasure."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 285,
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"story": 34,
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"summary": "He bequeaths it to the narrator for his kindnesses, predicting he will mangle it, and charges him not to let it die.",
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"predicament": "A dying man hands you his life's work and charges you not to let it die, while predicting you will mangle it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 286,
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"story": 34,
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"summary": "He dies murmuring a prayer and not guilty, my Lord; nothing in his room says who he was; the narrator and a friend sort and cut the papers.",
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"predicament": "After a fallen man's death, nothing is left to say who he was except the manuscript that he entrusted to you."
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}
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