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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81 lines
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{
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"chunk": 15,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "Torchy is now the gate boy at a big trust, screening visitors for the fussy private secretary; he got the job because the vice-president, passing through the applicant line-up, pointed at his red hair and said 'take that one'.",
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"predicament": "Someone gets taken on over a supervisor's head because the big boss picked him out of the line on a whim."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 16,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The secretary had wanted a meek, polite boy and resents Torchy from the start; Torchy sizes him up as a small-minded snob and decides to needle him for fun.",
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"predicament": "A newcomer imposed on a supervisor by the top boss is resented at once, and decides to needle him for sport."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 17,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The secretary tries to make him drop his nickname and lectures him on how to behave when the boss's son returns; Torchy mocks him and at first mistakes the son for someone important to the business.",
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"predicament": "A fussy supervisor tries to remake a cheeky newcomer's manners and coaches him to impress the boss's heir."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 18,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "Torchy sees the secretary is currying favour with the heir to protect his own job; ordered to let no one through the gate, he trips up a confident young man who tries to walk straight in.",
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"predicament": "Someone told to let nobody past blocks a confident stranger who walks in as if he owns the place."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 19,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The stranger says he is the boss's son; Torchy refuses to believe it until the horrified secretary confirms it, then spends an hour telling Torchy he is as good as fired, which Torchy shrugs off.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior turns away the boss's own heir by mistake, and a gloating supervisor promises he will be fired for it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 20,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "Summoned to the heir's office for judgement, Torchy offers to resign, jokes his way through the questions, and says he is ambitious enough to wait for a bank president to adopt him.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior called in to be fired meets the offended boss's heir with jokes instead of apologies."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 21,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The heir decides to keep him, saying his cheek is useful, and after long thought picks him for an important personal errand: fetch a package from an express office across the river without being arrested.",
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"predicament": "The boss's heir forgives a cheeky junior's blunder and instead trusts him with a delicate private errand."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 22,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The heir explains that at his club he was teased into a large bet that he could shoot a deer with an antique flintlock, though he knew nothing about hunting.",
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"predicament": "Someone important was goaded by his friends into a boastful bet he had no idea how to win."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 23,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "He learned to shoot in the woods, killed a deer out of season, and shipped it under a false name; his friends tipped off the game wardens, who tracked the parcel with dogs.",
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"predicament": "A man who has quietly won a bet finds his mocking friends have tipped off the authorities to spoil it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 24,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "The deer is under a warden's guard, and unless it reaches the club by six the heir loses the bet and faces months of jokes; Torchy takes expense money, and teases the secretary on his way out.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior is handed an impossible private errand by the boss's heir with a deadline only hours away."
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},
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"chunk": 25,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "At the express office Torchy finds the warden is an unbribable, watchful officer sitting right beside the parcel, and nearly gives up.",
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"predicament": "Someone sent to recover something finds it guarded by an official who cannot be talked round or bought."
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},
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"chunk": 26,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "Meeting an old messenger-boy friend, Torchy telephones the heir for the name of the likely informer, then has the friend deliver a fake message calling the warden to the telephone.",
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"predicament": "Someone stuck gets an old friend from the bottom rung to help him lure a guard away with a fake message."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 27,
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"story": 1,
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"summary": "While the warden is away Torchy claims the parcel, catches the ferry just ahead of him, and delivers the deer to the club; next day the heir praises him openly in front of the secretary.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior pulls off a risky private favour for the boss's heir and is praised in front of the supervisor who wanted him out."
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}
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]
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