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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
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[
{
"chunk": 190,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Torchy's friend gets only a modest promotion and raise for winning the big contract; he soberly admits things are off with the senator's daughter he loved, though he still carries her picture.",
"predicament": "Someone who won the organisation a big deal gets only a small raise, and has given up on a sweetheart far above his means."
},
{
"chunk": 191,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Her letters about balls and expensive tastes made him feel he could never keep her, so he let his replies dwindle.",
"predicament": "Someone on modest pay, sure he can never match a well-off sweetheart's life, lets the correspondence quietly die."
},
{
"chunk": 192,
"story": 15,
"summary": "He has been saving hard, skipping social life and teaching immigrants in the evenings; she stopped writing when he gave no reason, but she is now in town for a farewell dance before sailing, and he is invited.",
"predicament": "A struggling young man who let his sweetheart drift away learns she is in town for one last evening before leaving."
},
{
"chunk": 193,
"story": 15,
"summary": "He decides not to go, but next morning appears beaming in formal dress and tells Torchy he has just married her.",
"predicament": "Someone who swore to stay away from a sweetheart above his station turns up next morning having married her."
},
{
"chunk": 194,
"story": 15,
"summary": "They danced all night, drove round the park till dawn and married at eight, telegraphing her father afterwards; the friend gets ten days off from the top boss, and later invites Torchy to their first home dinner in a small flat.",
"predicament": "A newly married junior staff member asks the boss for time off, too happy to ask if it will be paid."
},
{
"chunk": 195,
"story": 15,
"summary": "As Torchy is leaving for the dinner, an important visitor arrives asking for the friend and announces he is the new father-in-law, the senator.",
"predicament": "Someone at the front desk is confronted by a powerful visitor tracking down a colleague who just married his daughter."
},
{
"chunk": 196,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Torchy refuses to reveal his friend's address until the senator promises peaceful intentions, then escorts him and his wife to the couple's cheap walk-up flat.",
"predicament": "Someone junior refuses to betray a friend's whereabouts to a powerful man until assured he means no harm."
},
{
"chunk": 197,
"story": 15,
"summary": "The friend answers in his shirtsleeves; the bride runs from the kitchen in a party dress and apron and throws herself on her mother, upsetting the senator's plan for a short formal call.",
"predicament": "A formal visit from disapproving in-laws collapses into a tearful family reunion in a cramped doorway."
},
{
"chunk": 198,
"story": 15,
"summary": "The mother stays to dinner and learns her daughter is the cook; the senator inspects the tiny flat and cross-examines the friend, who admits to twenty-five dollars a week and no private income.",
"predicament": "A young husband is cross-examined about his small pay and cramped home by his wealthy new father-in-law."
},
{
"chunk": 199,
"story": 15,
"summary": "The friend lays out his finances to the last dollar, with seven dollars left; the senator grimly wishes them luck, plainly expecting an appeal for help within a month.",
"predicament": "A wealthy in-law hears a young couple's finances and waits smugly for them to come begging for help."
},
{
"chunk": 200,
"story": 15,
"summary": "The bride's stew is a failure and the senator jokes about the cook sleeping on the fire escape; Torchy slips away to the top boss's home and reminds him a senior manager is being dismissed for failing in the capital.",
"predicament": "Stung by a rich man's mockery of a struggling friend, someone junior goes to the boss at home to get the friend promoted."
},
{
"chunk": 201,
"story": 15,
"summary": "Torchy recommends his friend, now a senator's son-in-law, for the post; amused, the boss appoints him at five thousand a year, and the senator, hearing the news, becomes all congratulations.",
"predicament": "Someone junior talks the boss into a sudden promotion for a friend, and the scornful in-law instantly changes his tune."
}
]