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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": 178,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The narrator, having borne a thousand injuries from a respected man, vows revenge for an insult: he must punish without risk and make his enemy know who punished him, while smiling at him as before; the man's weakness is pride in his knowledge of wine.",
"predicament": "A man insulted by someone powerful vows a revenge that must be complete, unpunished, and known to its victim, and keeps smiling meanwhile."
},
{
"chunk": 179,
"story": 10,
"summary": "At dusk during the carnival he meets his enemy, drunk and dressed as a jester, and baits him with a doubtful cask of rare wine, pretending he will ask a rival judge instead.",
"predicament": "An avenger lures his enemy by playing on his vanity, pretending he will ask a rival for the opinion instead."
},
{
"chunk": 180,
"story": 10,
"summary": "Masked, he lets the enemy hurry him home, having made sure the servants are gone, and leads him down into the damp family catacombs, repeatedly urging him to turn back for his health.",
"predicament": "An avenger leads his unsuspecting enemy deep into a hidden place, all the while pretending to urge him to turn back."
},
{
"chunk": 181,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He plies his coughing enemy with wine, toasts his long life, recites the family motto that no one injures them with impunity, and again offers to turn back.",
"predicament": "An avenger drinks to his victim's long life and states his own family's vow of vengeance to his face, unnoticed."
},
{
"chunk": 182,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The enemy makes a secret brotherhood sign; the narrator claims to belong and produces a trowel as his sign, then leads on into a crypt with air so foul the torches barely burn.",
"predicament": "An avenger nearly gives himself away with a grim joke about his real purpose, and his victim laughs it off."
},
{
"chunk": 183,
"story": 10,
"summary": "In a crypt lined with bones, the narrator tells his enemy the wine is in a deep recess; the drunken man steps in, and in a moment is chained to the granite wall.",
"predicament": "A man lured by his own vanity steps into a trap and finds himself chained before he understands what has happened."
},
{
"chunk": 184,
"story": 10,
"summary": "Mockingly imploring him once more to return, the narrator walls up the recess tier by tier, pausing to listen with satisfaction as the chained man sobers, moans and rattles his chain.",
"predicament": "An avenger slowly seals his enemy in alive, pausing to savour each sound of his victim's growing terror."
},
{
"chunk": 185,
"story": 10,
"summary": "The chained man screams and the narrator, after a moment's trembling, screams back louder; near the end a laugh and a plea to call it a joke come from inside, then silence.",
"predicament": "A man being buried alive begs his tormentor to call it all a joke, and the tormentor only echoes his words back."
},
{
"chunk": 186,
"story": 10,
"summary": "He drops a torch in, hears only bells jingling, feels sick, he says, from the damp, seals the last stone and piles the bones back; no one has disturbed them for fifty years.",
"predicament": "An avenger finishes his work with a sick heart he blames on the cold, and keeps his secret for half a century."
}
]