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": 87,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "The narrator declares the facts of mesmerism beyond dispute, including a trance resembling death, and announces he will report, against all prejudice, a conversation with an entranced man.",
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"predicament": "Someone who has witnessed something the world will scoff at resolves to report it plainly, whatever the doubters say."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 88,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "He has long mesmerised a man dying of consumption to ease his pain; summoned one night, he finds him in agony of body but strangely calm of mind.",
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"predicament": "A practitioner called to the bedside of a dying patient finds him in great pain yet oddly at peace."
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},
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"chunk": 89,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "The dying man explains he has always doubted the soul's immortality and that no philosophy has ever convinced his reason.",
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"predicament": "A dying man who has never been able to believe in anything beyond death wants proof before the end."
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},
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"chunk": 90,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "He says that in trance he half-perceives a convincing argument that fades on waking, and asks to be questioned while entranced; entranced, he says he must die, and is not afraid.",
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"predicament": "A dying man asks a trusted practitioner to question him in a trance, hoping to bring back certainty from the edge."
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},
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"chunk": 91,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "In trance he says the state is so near death that it contents him, and tells the questioner to begin with God, whom he says is neither spirit nor matter as men understand it.",
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"predicament": "A questioner at a dying man's bedside gets answers he did not expect and does not know what to ask next."
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},
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"chunk": 92,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "He explains that God is an ultimate, unparticled matter that pervades and moves all things, and that thought is this matter in motion.",
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"predicament": "Someone at the edge of death speaks with strange authority about things no living person can check."
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},
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"chunk": 93,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "He argues that spirit is only matter too rare to perceive, and that what we call spirit is infinitely rarefied matter.",
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"predicament": "A man in a trance insists on a view of the world that overturns everything his questioner has been taught."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 94,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "The questioner objects that such dense matter would stop the stars; the entranced man answers the objection easily, and the questioner asks whether it is irreverent.",
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"predicament": "A questioner raises his best objection to a startling claim, and is answered so easily that he grows uneasy."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 95,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "He explains that individual men are portions of the divine mind given bodies, then seems to deny what he said, until the questioner reads it back from his notes.",
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"predicament": "A man is confronted with his own earlier words, which he now denies, read back to him from notes."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 96,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "He explains that man will never be bodiless: death is a metamorphosis, like worm to butterfly, from a rudimental body to an ultimate one the senses cannot perceive.",
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"predicament": "A dying man describes death as a change rather than an ending, and says the living simply cannot perceive it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 97,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "He explains that the ultimate body perceives the whole world directly, without organs, which are cages confining rudimental beings until fledged.",
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"predicament": "A dying man describes the freedom he expects after death, and calls the body a cage that holds us back."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 98,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "He says every star and planet is peopled by rudimental beings, and that bodies and pain exist so that the divine law can be broken.",
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"predicament": "A questioner presses a dying man to explain why suffering exists at all, and receives an answer that disturbs him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 99,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "He says pleasure is only the contrast of pain, so earthly suffering is the basis of heavenly bliss, and that to the angels space is solid and stars unreal.",
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"predicament": "A dying man consoles himself that all his suffering on earth is the price of some greater happiness to come."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 100,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "Alarmed by his look, the questioner wakes him; he smiles and dies at once, and his body is instantly cold and rigid, as if long dead.",
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"predicament": "A practitioner wakes a patient from a trance and sees him die on the spot, and wonders whom he has been talking to."
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}
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]
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