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": 265,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "After an epigraph on a garden like a sleeping lady, the narrator says his friend was borne through life on unbroken happiness, proof that a man can be happy under rare conditions.",
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"predicament": "A man blessed with every good fortune seems to prove that lasting happiness is possible, if only the rules are kept."
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},
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"chunk": 266,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "His friend's happiness was planned: he held four conditions of bliss, open-air exercise, the love of a woman, contempt of ambition, and an unending, spiritual object of pursuit.",
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"predicament": "A fortunate young man sets out deliberate rules for being happy, knowing that great success often ruins people."
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},
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"chunk": 267,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "Handsome, brilliant, well-born and married to a devoted wife, at twenty-one he inherits an ancestor's fortune left to grow for a century, some four hundred and fifty million dollars, despite attempts to overturn the will.",
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"predicament": "A young man comes into a fortune so vast and sudden that it may change him, and many tried to stop it."
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"chunk": 268,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "Everyone speculates about how he will spend a sum so vast that ordinary extravagances, politics or charity seem too small; he gives his earlier fortune to his nearest relatives.",
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"predicament": "Someone who suddenly has more money than anyone can imagine is watched by everyone to see what he will do."
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"chunk": 269,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "The narrator is not surprised by his decision: having satisfied his conscience with private charity and having little faith in improving mankind, he is thrown back on himself.",
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"predicament": "A man with limitless means gives up on changing the world and turns his wealth towards his own private purposes."
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"chunk": 270,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "A poet in the widest sense but with a materialist bent, he believes the true use of the poetic sentiment is creating new forms of physical beauty, and scorns ambition.",
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"predicament": "A man of great gifts chooses to pursue beauty for its own sake and turn his back on ambition and fame."
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},
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"chunk": 271,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "Loving music and poetry but choosing neither, he decides that landscape gardening is the greatest and most neglected field for the poet's imagination.",
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"predicament": "A man of wealth and taste settles on a lifelong project no one else thinks worthy of a serious artist."
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},
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"chunk": 272,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "He explains why nature's landscapes can always be improved by an artist, though its details cannot, and why every true artist agrees on the correction.",
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"predicament": "Two friends puzzle over why the natural world always seems to fall a little short of what an artist can imagine."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 273,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "He proposes that the earth's disorder was prepared for man's mortality, having first been designed for an immortal race.",
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"predicament": "A dreamer wonders whether the flaws of the world were placed there because its people were made to die."
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},
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"chunk": 274,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "He suggests that what looks disordered to us may look ordered to beings viewing it from afar, once human, now invisible, and quotes a writer on gardening.",
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"predicament": "A man imagines unseen watchers for whom the world is arranged, and argues that we see only a part of it."
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},
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"chunk": 275,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "The quoted writer describes the natural style, which avoids defects, and the artificial style, which shows human care and interest.",
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"predicament": "A man with a grand plan weighs a respected authority's rules for his craft, preparing to reject them."
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},
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"chunk": 276,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "The friend rejects recreating original beauty and scorns merely avoiding defects: rules govern only what refrains, and the doubters of genius applaud loudest once it succeeds.",
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"predicament": "A man of vision scorns cautious critics who can only say what to avoid, knowing they will praise his work once finished."
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},
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"chunk": 277,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "He proposes a landscape so vast and strange it seems tended by beings between man and God, a project only a poet with vast wealth could achieve.",
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"predicament": "A man with unlimited means dreams of a work so grand it would seem made by something more than human."
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},
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"chunk": 278,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "He devotes his fortune to this vision, and in it, and in the love of his wife, finds exemption from ordinary cares and great happiness; the narrator despairs of describing it.",
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"predicament": "A man pours his whole fortune into a single private vision and, unusually, finds the happiness he sought."
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},
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"chunk": 279,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "He first considers remote Pacific islands, but rejects them: he wants the calm of solitude, not its gloom, and must be near a city; they search for years together for the right place.",
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"predicament": "A man seeking a retreat from the world rejects total isolation, wanting solitude he can leave when he chooses."
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"chunk": 280,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "At a glorious mountain panorama he says grandeur of distance tires and depresses, and that the heart-sick avoid distant views; after four years they find the spot, since opened to visitors on his death.",
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"predicament": "A man choosing where to spend his life rejects a grand view, wanting a place that feels enclosed and secluded."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 281,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "The approach is by river, from pastoral farmland into an ever narrower, winding, gloomy gorge of spotless moss and granite, so strange and clean that the visitor loses all sense of direction.",
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"predicament": "A traveller led by winding ways deeper and deeper into a secluded place loses all sense of direction and of the outside world."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 282,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "The boat emerges into a round, clear basin ringed with hills covered entirely in flowers, like a silent cascade of jewels.",
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"predicament": "A traveller emerging from gloom finds himself suddenly surrounded by a beauty so perfect it seems unreal."
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},
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"chunk": 283,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "Facing the setting sun, the visitor is transferred alone to a small ivory canoe with no oarsman, told the fates will care for him, and the canoe moves off by itself to unseen music.",
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"predicament": "A visitor is left alone in a boat that moves by itself towards some unknown destination, and must trust it."
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"chunk": 284,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "The canoe approaches a gate in the hills, between wild wooded mountains and a smooth emerald lawn backed by a vast ivy-covered wall.",
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"predicament": "A traveller carried along without effort sees, behind a great wall, a guarded private domain he cannot yet enter."
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},
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"chunk": 285,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "The seeming gate proves to be a bend; the canoe glides on into a winding channel still hemmed in by the wall and wild hills.",
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"predicament": "A traveller keeps expecting to arrive and keeps finding another turn, drawn further in each time."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 286,
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"story": 16,
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"summary": "At last a gate of burnished gold opens, and the canoe descends into a vast amphitheatre of mountains, where the whole paradise appears: music, perfume, birds, flowers, and a floating fairy palace.",
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"predicament": "A visitor finally passes through a golden gate into a private paradise built entirely by one man's will."
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}
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