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": 131,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "The story's epigraph: a French couplet comparing the heart to a suspended lute that sounds the moment it is touched.",
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"predicament": "A heart so finely strung that the slightest touch sets it sounding cannot protect itself from anything around it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 132,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "Riding alone through dreary country on a dark autumn day, the narrator comes in sight of an ancient house and is overcome by a gloom he cannot explain, which deepens when he looks at its reflection in a black pool.",
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"predicament": "A visitor arriving at an old house is gripped by a dread he cannot explain, and reasoning it away only deepens it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 133,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "He has come for a stay of some weeks because the owner, a boyhood friend, wrote him a wild, pleading letter describing a mental disorder and begging for his company.",
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"predicament": "Someone receives a desperate plea from a friend he has not seen for years, and cannot refuse to come."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 134,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "He reflects that he knew little of his reserved friend, except that the old family, famous for art and music, had never branched, so that the name and the house had become one.",
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"predicament": "A visitor realises how little he knows of a friend whose family and home seem to have grown into one another."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 135,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "Looking up from the pool, he fancies that the house and grounds give off an atmosphere of their own, a sluggish, leaden vapour from the decayed trees and still water.",
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"predicament": "A visitor feels his own fear feeding on itself, until he half-believes the place itself is breathing something poisonous."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 136,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "Examining the house, he finds it intact but fungus-covered and decaying stone by stone, with a barely perceptible crack running from roof to water.",
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"predicament": "A visitor notices that a house which looks whole is rotting from within, with a hairline crack running right through it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 137,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "A silent valet leads him through dark passages where familiar things stir strange fancies; on the stair he meets the family physician, who looks cunning and perplexed.",
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"predicament": "A guest led through a gloomy house passes a household adviser whose shifty, uneasy look he cannot read."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 138,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "He is shown into a vast, dim, comfortless room of scattered books and instruments that breathes an atmosphere of sorrow.",
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"predicament": "A visitor enters a room so heavy with gloom that nothing in it seems to hold any life."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 139,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "His friend greets him warmly, but has changed so terribly, ghastly pale with luminous eyes and wild hair, that the narrator hardly recognises him.",
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"predicament": "A man meets a childhood friend after years apart and can barely recognise him, he has changed so terribly."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 140,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "The friend is nervous and erratic, calls his malady a family evil that will soon pass, and describes senses so acute that food, cloth, light, scent and most sounds torment him.",
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"predicament": "A man tells an old friend that he suffers from an inherited affliction, then insists in the same breath it will soon pass."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 141,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "He says he will perish of fear itself, and hints that the house has a hold over his spirit, which has kept him from leaving it for years.",
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"predicament": "A man is so ruled by fear that he expects to lose his life and reason to terror itself, and cannot leave his home."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 142,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "He admits his gloom comes partly from his twin sister's wasting illness; she passes through the room unseeing, and that evening takes to her bed, not expected to be seen alive again.",
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"predicament": "A man's only remaining relative is dying of a strange wasting illness, and her death will leave him the last of his line."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 143,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "For days the narrator paints, reads and listens to music with his friend, but finds all attempts to cheer a mind that pours out darkness are futile.",
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"predicament": "Someone trying to lift a friend out of despair realises that nothing he does can reach the darkness in that mind."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 144,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "He recalls his friend's wild improvised dirges and paintings of pure abstraction that filled him with an awe he could not explain.",
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"predicament": "A companion is drawn deeper and deeper into a troubled friend's feverish art and cannot say why it frightens him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 145,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "One painting shows a long, smooth, lightless tunnel deep underground flooded with ghastly light; the friend's songs, improvised in rare excitement, include one that reveals he knows his reason is failing.",
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"predicament": "A companion realises from a friend's own words that the friend knows his mind is giving way."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 146,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "The ballad tells of a radiant palace ruled by Thought, overthrown by evil things, where travellers now see monstrous forms and a hideous throng that laughs but never smiles.",
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"predicament": "A man tells, in the guise of a story, how a bright and ordered mind was overrun and left a ruin."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 147,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "The friend insists that the stones, fungi and trees of his house are sentient, and that their slow-gathered atmosphere has shaped his family's fate and made him what he is.",
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"predicament": "A friend insists, with growing conviction, that his home itself has shaped and doomed him, and you cannot tell if he is mad."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 148,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "They read strange old books of demonology, travel and inquisition, and above all an obscure manual of the vigils for the dead.",
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"predicament": "Two companions shut away together feed each other's morbid fancies with nothing but dark reading."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 149,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "The friend announces his sister is dead and says he will keep her body in a vault in the house for a fortnight, for fear of her doctors' curiosity; the narrator does not object.",
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"predicament": "A man decides to keep a dead relative's body at home instead of burying it, and his guest does not object."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 150,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "The two of them carry the coffin down to a deep, airless, copper-lined vault beneath the narrator's room, behind a heavy iron door.",
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"predicament": "Two men carry a body into a sealed vault deep under the house, behind a door that grinds shut."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 151,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "Before closing the coffin they see the twins' likeness; the body keeps a faint blush and a lingering smile; they screw down the lid and bolt the door.",
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"predicament": "Men sealing a coffin notice the dead woman still looks faintly alive, and close it anyway."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 152,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "In the following days the friend wanders aimlessly, his eyes dull and his voice terrified, as if struggling to reveal a secret or listening to a sound; his terror begins to infect the narrator.",
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"predicament": "A man watches a friend who seems to be hiding some terrible secret, and feels the friend's terror beginning to take hold of him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 153,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "Seven or eight nights after the entombment, the narrator cannot sleep, fights a causeless terror, hears low sounds through the storm, and gets up and paces.",
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"predicament": "A man lies awake in a strange house, hearing faint sounds he cannot place, and cannot reason himself out of dread."
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{
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"chunk": 154,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "His friend comes in with a lamp and a mad hilarity, asks if he has not seen it, and throws open the window on a whirling storm lit by an unnatural glow around the house.",
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"predicament": "A frightened man is visited in the night by a friend whose wild excitement is more alarming than the storm outside."
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{
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"chunk": 155,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "The narrator leads him away from the window, explains the glow away, and begins reading aloud a clumsy old romance in the hope of calming him.",
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"predicament": "Someone tries to calm a friend on the edge of madness by explaining away what frightens them both, and reading aloud."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 156,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "As he reads of a knight breaking down a door, he seems to hear, far off in the house, the very sound of wood being ripped apart, and dismisses it.",
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"predicament": "A man reading aloud hears a sound in the house that echoes exactly what he has just read, and tells himself he imagined it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 157,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "Reading of the knight slaying a dragon with a horrid shriek, he now distinctly hears a distant screaming, grating sound.",
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"predicament": "A man hears, unmistakably this time, a sound in the house that should not be there, and no longer can dismiss it."
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"chunk": 158,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "Hiding his terror so as not to alarm his friend, he notices him turned towards the door, rocking and murmuring, and reads on about a shield falling with a mighty ringing.",
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"predicament": "A man hides his own terror to protect an unstable friend, and sees the friend is already staring at the door."
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"chunk": 159,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "A muffled metallic clang sounds; the narrator leaps up and finds his friend rigid, rocking, smiling sickly, and murmuring without seeing him.",
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"predicament": "A man turns to a friend for help at the height of a terror and finds him beyond reach, murmuring to himself."
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{
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"chunk": 160,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "The friend confesses he has heard his sister stirring in her coffin for days but dared not speak: they buried her alive, and now she stands outside the door.",
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"predicament": "A man confesses he has known for days that someone was buried alive, and was too afraid to say so."
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{
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"chunk": 161,
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"story": 7,
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"summary": "The door swings open on the bloodied sister, who falls on her brother and kills him in her death-agony; the narrator flees as the house splits and sinks into the pool.",
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"predicament": "A man who let someone be buried alive is confronted by her at the door, and the whole house comes down with them."
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}
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