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": 230,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "A year after the heiress went abroad, her photograph still stands on Torchy's bureau in the silver frame his elderly landlady bought without a word; he thinks two years is too long to hope and that he is nothing beside her.",
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"predicament": "Someone at the bottom keeps a keepsake from a well-born sweetheart who is far away, sure he has no right to hope."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 231,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Torchy, an orphan with few friends, reflects that she was kind to him on the only two occasions they met, and cannot work out why she noticed him at all.",
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"predicament": "Someone alone in the world treasures two brief kindnesses from a well-born sweetheart and cannot see why she bothered."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 232,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Since she left he has smartened up his collars, ties and teeth, daydreaming that by her return he will be a senior executive sent abroad on company business.",
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"predicament": "Someone at the bottom quietly smartens himself up, daydreaming of rising high enough to meet a sweetheart as an equal."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 233,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "He elaborates a fantasy of meeting her on the homeward ship dressed all in grey, making a polished remark, and strolling the deck with her by moonlight.",
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"predicament": "Someone of low standing rehearses a grand fantasy of meeting a sweetheart as a distinguished man of the world."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 234,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "A postcard arrives saying she sails home on the tenth with a count who is 'a dear'; Torchy swings between joy and despair, then admits he has no right to object.",
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"predicament": "Someone learns a longed-for sweetheart is returning with a titled suitor, and admits he has no claim to object."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 235,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "He puts her picture away, vowing not to go to the pier, yet shaves for the first time, dresses in his best, and asks the secretary whether any outside errands are due.",
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"predicament": "Someone who swears he will stay away from a sweetheart's return dresses in his best that very morning anyway."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 236,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "The secretary gleefully refuses to let him out; the boss's son storms in needing the ship's arrival time for his sister, and fumes that it clashes with an expected call from business partners.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior blocked by a spiteful supervisor sees the boss torn between family duty and an expected business visit."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 237,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Torchy has a messenger-boy friend forge a telegram in which the expected businessman promises to come; the son therefore sends Torchy to meet his sister at the ship.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior forges a small message to the boss so that he himself will be sent on the errand he wants."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 238,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Torchy waits in the eager pier crowd as the ship is warped in, and spots the boss's large daughter at the rail.",
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"predicament": "Someone sent on an errand waits among an excited crowd, hoping for a glimpse of someone who is not his errand."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 239,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "He finds the heiress beside the boss's daughter and, deciding he will push forward count or no count, shouts her name through his hands.",
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"predicament": "Someone of low standing decides to push himself forward to a sweetheart despite a titled rival at her side."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 240,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "The count proves to be a bespectacled middle-aged man; the daughter has invited the heiress to dinner, and Torchy teases that the count is rather old.",
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"predicament": "Someone who dreaded a titled rival finds him older and less threatening than he had feared."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 241,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "The heiress greets Torchy warmly and introduces him to her doubtful aunt; when the count says he will follow the young ladies, Torchy hails a second taxi and packs him off with the aunt.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior quietly manoeuvres a titled rival into a separate carriage so he can ride with the sweetheart himself."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 242,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "The heiress is amused at the count's removal; at the boss's house she sends the daughter in ahead, leaving Torchy a few minutes alone with her to flirt.",
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"predicament": "A well-born sweetheart quietly arranges a few private minutes alone with someone from the bottom of the ladder."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 243,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "She says Europe was dull and her aunt has given up on her music; the moment turns tender, he kisses her, and she hurries him to the front seat before waving goodbye; he reports to the boss's son about her.",
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"predicament": "Someone from the bottom finds that a sweetheart far above him returns his feelings, if only for a stolen moment."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 244,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "The boss's son winks knowingly; feeling mean, Torchy confesses the forged telegram, only to learn the businessman actually came as the fake message said.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior, treated kindly by the boss, feels bound to confess a small deception, and finds it did no harm."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 245,
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"story": 18,
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"summary": "Not a scene: the publisher's back-matter advertising other adventure novels, split in with the last story of the volume.",
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"predicament": "No story content here: this is the publisher's advertising for other books and belongs in no group."
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}
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]
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