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": 341,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "Mr. Robert, skipping his sister's country tea to go sailing, asks Torchy to escort 'little Gladys', a school friend of his sister's, up in the car; the car will bring Vee back, which delights Torchy.",
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"predicament": "The boss's relative dodges a family social duty by handing someone junior an escort errand, with a pleasant catch attached."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 342,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "Torchy buys gumdrops for the child, enjoys lolling grandly in the chauffeured car and sneering at people in taxis, and senses he is due for a comeuppance.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior enjoys a borrowed taste of luxury on an errand and starts feeling superior to people he normally resembles."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 343,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "After a long wait, 'little Gladys' appears as a heavily made-up sixteen-year-old with dyed hair and big earrings, and scornfully says Mr. Robert sent one of his 'young men' in his place.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior sent to fetch a child finds instead a showy young woman who treats him as a mere errand-runner."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 344,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "Torchy tries to ride up front but she insists he sit with her; he asks which theatre she performs at, and she says she has merely had her hair done, and starts redoing it in the mirror.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior tries to keep a proper distance from a forward young passenger, who insists on his company and teases him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 345,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "She chatters that her mother makes scenes over her looks, that she was expelled from one school, and that she keeps up with actress friends her mother forbids.",
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"predicament": "A rebellious young charge cheerfully tells the escort she has been handed to all the ways she defies her parent."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 346,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "They share the gumdrops; she turns out to be sixteen and chatters knowingly about racy plays, divorces and novels.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior escorting a precocious young girl is startled by how worldly she tries to sound."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 347,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "She flirts with her eyes; Torchy tells her he dislikes painted girls and that she is a kid, they swap insults, and she soon makes it up and takes the last gumdrop.",
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"predicament": "A flirtatious young charge tries her charms on the escort, and he fends her off by telling her plainly he disapproves."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 348,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "Arriving, Gladys clings to Torchy's arm to make an entrance before Marjorie and Vee, who stare; Marjorie hardly recognises her, and Gladys gushes about her 'sport' with 'dear Torchy'.",
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"predicament": "A young man arrives with a painted girl clinging to his arm, right in front of the sweetheart he hoped to impress."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 349,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "Gladys's quiet, modest mother is shocked at her looks and pleads; Gladys defies her, and the father, asked to intervene, flees round the corner with a cigar.",
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"predicament": "A parent is shocked by a defiant daughter in public, and the other parent flees rather than take any part."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 350,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "The mother weeps; Vee offers Gladys a mirror and washcloth, which she angrily refuses, so Vee, Marjorie and the mother withdraw into the house together.",
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"predicament": "A defiant young girl rejects a kindly offer to tone herself down, so the older women go off to plot."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 351,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "The mother returns made up exactly like her daughter, in a blond wig and earrings; appalled at seeing her mother look so vulgar, Gladys breaks down and starts scrubbing her own face.",
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"predicament": "A rebellious youngster is shown her own behaviour copied by her parent, and is so horrified she gives it up."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 352,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "Mother and daughter strip off the paint together and embrace; later Torchy sheepishly holds the car door for Vee, who pretends to be cold but is plainly amused.",
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"predicament": "A young man who arrived with another girl on his arm faces his sweetheart on the ride home, unsure of his welcome."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 353,
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"story": 26,
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"summary": "Vee teases him but they have a happy ride back without the aunt knowing; next day Torchy dryly bills Mr. Robert a quarter for gumdrops for 'little Gladys' and plans to get even for the misleading brief.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior sent out on a misleading brief pointedly bills the boss's relative for it and plans to have his joke later."
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}
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]
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