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": 221,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "The story's epigraph: a Latin quatrain for a market to be built on the site of a revolutionary club, where an impious mob once fed on innocent blood and death now gives way to life.",
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"predicament": "A place once used for cruelty and killing is to be turned over to ordinary life once its tormentors are gone."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 222,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "Sick after long torture, the narrator hears his death sentence from black-robed judges whose thin white lips shape his name; the candles turn from angels to spectres and he sinks into a swoon.",
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"predicament": "A prisoner hears the sentence of death passed by judges who show no pity, and feels every hope of help vanish."
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},
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"chunk": 223,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "He reflects that even in a swoon consciousness is not wholly lost, and that impressions from that gulf return unbidden to those who have fainted.",
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"predicament": "A man who has come back from unconsciousness wonders what was happening to him while he seemed to be nowhere."
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},
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"chunk": 224,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "He half-recalls being carried down and down in silence by tall figures, a horror at his heart's stillness, then flatness and dampness.",
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"predicament": "A prisoner half-remembers being carried endlessly downward by silent figures, and dreads what that memory means."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 225,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "Sensation, then thought and terror, return; he remembers the trial and sentence, but nothing of what followed.",
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"predicament": "A man comes to himself slowly, remembers his death sentence, and has no idea what was done with him since."
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},
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"chunk": 226,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "Lying unbound in darkness, he dares not open his eyes for fear there is nothing to see; opening them, he finds total blackness, and reasons that he is not in his old cell.",
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"predicament": "A prisoner wakes in utter darkness and must work out, from memory alone, where he has been put and why."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 227,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "A fearful idea, that he is in a tomb, sends him into a swoon; recovering, he gropes forward, finds open space, and recalls the rumoured horrors of the dungeons, certain only that his death will be bitter.",
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"predicament": "A condemned man, alone in the dark, knows only that death is coming and cannot guess the manner or the hour."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 228,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "He finds a slimy stone wall and, his knife gone, marks his starting place with a strip torn from his robe to measure the cell, but falls exhausted and sleeps.",
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"predicament": "A prisoner in total darkness tries to take the measure of his prison, and collapses before he can finish."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 229,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "He wakes to find bread and water, completes the circuit to his rag, reckons the cell at fifty yards, then tries to cross it and trips on his torn hem.",
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"predicament": "A captive finds that his jailers are keeping him alive, and keeps exploring his prison out of sheer curiosity."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 230,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "Fallen, he finds his face hanging over the edge of a deep pit; a stone he drops falls long before splashing, and a door opens and closes overhead.",
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"predicament": "A prisoner discovers by accident that one more step would have sent him into a deadly trap, and that he is watched."
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{
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"chunk": 231,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "He realises the pit was the doom prepared for him, a death of moral horror for a man whose nerves had been destroyed; too cowardly now to end it, he creeps back to the wall.",
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"predicament": "A man who narrowly escapes the death planned for him is too broken now to face it or to end things himself."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 232,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "He sleeps, drinks drugged water, and wakes to a sulphurous light showing the cell far smaller than he thought; he busies himself working out his mistake.",
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"predicament": "A prisoner, powerless over everything that matters, fixes his mind on a trivial puzzle to hold his terror off."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 233,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "He sees the walls are iron plates painted with fiends and skeletons, blurred by damp, and the pit the only one in the stone floor.",
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"predicament": "A captive finally sees his prison for what it is, a place built to terrify, with the one trap in the centre."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 234,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "He finds himself strapped to a low frame with only one arm half free, given salty meat and no water; overhead a painted figure of Time holds a pendulum that is slowly swinging.",
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"predicament": "A man strapped down and kept thirsty notices something above him beginning to move, and cannot yet tell its purpose."
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{
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"chunk": 235,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "Rats swarm up from the pit for his meat; when he looks up again, the pendulum's sweep has widened and it has come lower, and he sees its end is a razor-sharp crescent.",
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"predicament": "A bound man realises the slow motion above him is a blade coming down, while vermin crowd in on every side."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 236,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "He understands this is the alternative death; for days he watches it descend inch by inch, praying for it to hurry, struggling madly, then lying calm and smiling at it.",
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"predicament": "A helpless man watches his death come down on him inch by inch for days, swinging between frenzy and calm."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 237,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "After another swoon, weak with hunger, he eats a scrap the rats left, and a half-formed thought of hope comes and vanishes before he can grasp it.",
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"predicament": "A man in the last extremity feels the first glimmer of a way out, and loses it before he can grasp it."
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{
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"chunk": 238,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "He sees the blade will cross his heart, forces himself to dwell on the trivial fraying of his robe, laughs and howls in turn, and struggles in vain to free his arm.",
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"predicament": "A man facing certain death clings to trivial thoughts to keep his mind from the one fact he cannot bear."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 239,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "As it comes within a dozen sweeps, despair brings calm, and he realises the single strap binding him will be cut at the first stroke, but it does not cross the blade's path.",
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"predicament": "A man in the grip of despair grows suddenly calm, thinks clearly for the first time, and looks for a flaw in the trap."
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{
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"chunk": 240,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "The whole thought returns: he smears the strap with the greasy meat and lies utterly still for the rats.",
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"predicament": "A trapped man sees how to turn the very things tormenting him into the means of his escape."
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{
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"chunk": 241,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "The rats swarm over him, half-stifling him, and gnaw the strap; with superhuman resolve he lies still as the blade cuts his skin, then slides free.",
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"predicament": "A man must lie perfectly still under horror and pain long enough for his desperate plan to work."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 242,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "The pendulum is drawn up at once, showing he is watched; he notices the light comes from a gap around the walls, and the painted demons are glowing ever brighter.",
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"predicament": "A prisoner who has escaped one death realises he is being watched, and that his captors already have another ready."
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{
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"chunk": 243,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "The walls are heating; choking, he runs to the pit for coolness, sees something horrible in its depths, and shrieks and weeps.",
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"predicament": "A prisoner fleeing one horror towards the only refuge left looks into it and finds something even worse."
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{
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"chunk": 244,
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"story": 14,
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"summary": "The walls begin to close into a narrowing lozenge, forcing him toward the pit; he screams in despair and totters on the brink.",
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"predicament": "A man is slowly forced towards the one fate he dreads most, with no way left to resist or escape."
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}
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