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": 26,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The narrator claims an obscure book shows the familiar tale of the storytelling queen ended wrongly, and recalls how a jealous king vowed to wed a maiden each night and kill her each morning.",
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"predicament": "A ruler has made a vow to kill a new bride every morning, and everyone lives in fear of being chosen next."
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},
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"chunk": 27,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The vizier's daughter resolves to end the killings or die trying, and marries the king against her father's advice, knowing he means to keep his vow.",
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"predicament": "A young woman volunteers to marry a man who kills his brides, hoping to end it or die in the attempt."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 28,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "On the wedding night she tells her sister a story within the king's hearing and leaves it unfinished at dawn, so the curious king postpones her execution.",
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"predicament": "A bride under sentence of death keeps herself alive by leaving her husband too curious to have her killed yet."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 29,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "She keeps it up for a thousand and one nights until the king forgets or breaks his vow, and the killing of brides ends.",
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"predicament": "Someone living under a daily death sentence stays alive, night after night, only by keeping a dangerous listener entertained."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 30,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "On the next night, safe at last, the queen decides she has left a famous sailor's story unfinished and wakes her snoring husband to tell the rest.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has just talked her way out of danger cannot resist talking again, though nothing now requires it."
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},
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"chunk": 31,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The king grunts his attention and she begins the sailor's account of how, in old age, he left home secretly with his goods to seek new lands.",
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"predicament": "An old man grown restless at home slips away without telling his family, to go looking for adventure again."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 32,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "Waiting by the shore with a porter, the sailor hears a humming and sees a vast fiery monster racing towards them across the sea.",
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"predicament": "A traveller waiting on an empty shore sees something huge and unknown bearing down on him from far away."
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},
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"chunk": 33,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The sailor describes the monster: black and solid as rock, belted in red, scaled beneath, with rows of protruding eyes.",
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"predicament": "A traveller facing something he has no words for tries to describe it in terms of the only things he knows."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 34,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "He explains the beast moves with no visible fins or wings and breathes out noisily through holes near its tail.",
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"predicament": "A traveller watches a strange thing move with no means he can understand, and concludes it must be magic."
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},
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"chunk": 35,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "On its back he sees man-like creatures in tight painful clothing, heavy boxes on their heads and stiff collars round their necks.",
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"predicament": "A stranger sees people whose ordinary dress and customs look to him like painful bondage and absurd contraptions."
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},
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"chunk": 36,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The beast fires a gun with thunder and smoke; one creature shouts through a trumpet, and the terrified porter says the monster is a demon goaded by vermin.",
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"predicament": "A traveller hailed in a tongue he cannot understand turns to a frightened companion, who explains it as the work of demons."
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},
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"chunk": 37,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The sailor runs, the porter escapes with his goods, and the sailor is caught and carried out to sea, where he wins over the creatures' leader and learns their language.",
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"predicament": "A man captured by strangers he took for monsters sets about winning their leader's favour and learning their tongue."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 38,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The leader offers him free passage round the world; the king begins to interrupt, doubting that the sea is round like a fruit.",
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"predicament": "A storyteller recounts something true but so strange that her listener, who holds her life, begins to doubt her."
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},
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"chunk": 39,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The queen goes on, ignoring her husband's grunts, telling of an island built by tiny creatures, stone forests, and a vast cave of palaces and blind fish.",
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"predicament": "A storyteller keeps describing true wonders while her listener grows more impatient and scornful with each one."
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"chunk": 40,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "She tells of rivers of molten metal, a sky blotted out by ash, a forest under a lake, and a lovely land where entry means death, while the king scoffs.",
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"predicament": "Someone telling the plain truth about the world sees each fact dismissed with growing contempt by the one judging her."
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"chunk": 41,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "She tells of creatures that trap prey in funnel pits, plants that live on air or on animals, and flowers that imprison insects; the king says \"Pshaw!\".",
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"predicament": "A speaker keeps piling up true but unlikely facts before a listener whose patience is visibly running out."
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"chunk": 42,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "She tells of bees and birds that solved geometry problems at once which men took years to solve, and of a flock of birds taking hours to pass.",
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"predicament": "A storyteller tells true things that make experts look slow, and her listener greets each with another scornful exclamation."
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},
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"chunk": 43,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "She tells of a headless bird carrying a house full of people in its claws and of a continent resting on a many-horned cow; the king believes only the one he has read in a book.",
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"predicament": "A listener dismisses every true thing he is told, and believes the one fable he already read somewhere."
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"chunk": 44,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "In the man-creatures' land she describes iron horses that eat black stones and a feathered hen of iron and brick; the king calls it nonsense.",
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"predicament": "A storyteller describes ordinary modern machines as wonders, and her listener rejects each one as plain nonsense."
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"chunk": 45,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "She describes a chess-playing automaton, a calculating engine, and a printing press that raises and topples empires; the king calls it ridiculous.",
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"predicament": "A speaker describes inventions of real power and consequence, and her listener laughs at every one of them."
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},
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"chunk": 46,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "She describes a man who sits in ovens, one who makes gold, one who draws invisible wire and one who counts vibrations; the king calls it absurd.",
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"predicament": "A storyteller's true accounts of human skill are heard as lies by the one person whose opinion decides her fate."
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},
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"chunk": 47,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "She tells of corpses made to move by an unseen fluid, voices heard across the world, lightning tamed and the stars weighed; the king calls it preposterous.",
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"predicament": "A speaker tells the plain wonders of the age to a listener who takes each one as proof she is lying."
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"chunk": 48,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "When she describes the women's fashion for enormous bustles, the king declares he has had enough of her lies, remembers his vow, and orders her to be strangled.",
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"predicament": "A storyteller pushes her listener one story too far, and he suddenly remembers the old sentence hanging over her."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 49,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "She submits gracefully, consoling herself as she is strangled that her husband's impatience has cost him the rest of the story.",
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"predicament": "A woman who talked too long accepts her death with composure, consoling herself that her judge is the real loser."
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}
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