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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{
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"chunk": 54,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "Torchy introduces a typist whose fine clothes and grand manner make everyone take her for a society lady; on his first day he mistook her for a visitor and held the door for her.",
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"predicament": "A newcomer in a humble post dresses and carries herself so grandly that everyone takes her for someone far above it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 55,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "The furious top boss sends Torchy to fetch whoever typed a badly misspelled letter; she comes along perfectly calm, as if invited to tea, while Torchy promises to defend her.",
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"predicament": "Someone at the bottom is summoned to face the angry boss over sloppy work, and walks in as calm as a guest."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 56,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "The boss starts to roar about her spelling, looks up, sees how striking she is and loses his temper entirely; she calmly complains that his marks mean she must retype it.",
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"predicament": "An angry boss about to tear into a careless subordinate is disarmed by her poise and good looks."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 57,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "The boss corrects her gently, holds the door for her, and quietly assigns a plain, expert typist to fix her work; she keeps coming in whenever she likes and brushes off the secretary's rebuke about hours.",
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"predicament": "A boss too charmed to discipline a poor worker quietly has someone else correct her, while she ignores every rule."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 58,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "Everyone agrees she should be fired, but the boss and his son pass the task down to the secretary, who is so polite that she talks him into promising her a raise; the male clerks court her in vain.",
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"predicament": "Nobody will fire a poised but useless worker, and the one finally sent to do it comes back having promised her a raise."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 59,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "A rumour spreads that she is a ruined society girl, and the whole staff, especially the snobbish secretary, start fawning on her; Torchy mockingly nicknames her 'Lady Mildred'.",
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"predicament": "A rumour that a colleague comes from grand people makes the whole staff fawn on her, and one junior mocks it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 60,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "The nickname sticks and she accepts it without blinking; the staff wait on her and invent grand stories about her, though the boss's son treats her as a joke.",
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"predicament": "A whole workplace spins flattering legends about a reserved colleague, who neither confirms nor denies them."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 61,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "Torchy enjoys insulting the boss's son's haughty chauffeur; one evening he is sent down to tell the chauffeur to wait half an hour.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior who likes needling a haughty servant of the boss is sent down with a message for him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 62,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "In the sleet the typist comes out, and on a whim Torchy bows her into the boss's son's car and orders the chauffeur to drive her home; she plays along without a question.",
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"predicament": "On a whim, someone junior lends the boss's car to a colleague for a ride home, without asking anyone."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 63,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "Too late, Torchy sees the boss's son's painfully shy, plump friend already sitting in the car; he introduces them anyway and slams the door on the friend's protests.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior's prank turns out to involve a painfully shy friend of the boss, and he pushes ahead with it anyway."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 64,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "Expecting to be fired, Torchy waits for a reprimand that never comes; when the shy friend next appears Torchy hides behind the water cooler.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior who has played a prank on the boss's friend waits for a reprimand that does not come."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 65,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "Weeks later the typist quits without explanation, and the boss's son asks Torchy to help solve a mystery: his friend met a charming woman in his car and will say no more; Torchy owns up.",
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"predicament": "Called in about a mystery, someone junior confesses a prank before he learns whether it went well or badly."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 66,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "Torchy offers to be fired, but the boss's son wants to know all about her, then reveals she and his friend are to be married next month.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior braced for punishment learns his prank has led a shy friend of the boss to an engagement."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 67,
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"story": 4,
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"summary": "The son finds she is no heiress but a Midwestern girl who learned dressmaking and polish while waiting for a chance; the family come round, and the friend makes Torchy an usher at the wedding.",
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"predicament": "A colleague's grand airs turn out to be self-made, and the junior who brought about her match is rewarded instead of fired."
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}
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]
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