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": 508,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "Torchy had expected the new post to be all desk work, but it keeps pulling him into action; checking the transfer book, he sees that his sweetheart's aunt is swapping a large holding of the firm's bonds for shares in a rival concern.",
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"predicament": "Someone newly promoted spots in the records that his sweetheart's guardian is quietly moving her fortune into a rival's hands."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 509,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "He tells the boss's son, who is worried by it; then a flashy small-time broker Torchy knows fishes for inside information from his new post and asks where the rival firm's offices are.",
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"predicament": "Someone newly raised to the boss's side is courted by a shady acquaintance angling for inside information."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 510,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "Torchy brushes him off with a joke and the broker leaves, claiming he is only visiting a cousin who keeps books for the rival firm.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior brushes off a shady acquaintance's probing and grows suspicious of the excuse he gives for being around."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 511,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "Torchy tails him, sees a stranger slip him a note, which he reads and tears up; Torchy fishes the pieces from the wastebasket and reassembles a cryptic message naming the rival firm's two leaders.",
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"predicament": "Someone curious shadows a suspicious acquaintance, retrieves a torn-up secret message, and pieces it together over lunch."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 512,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "He decodes it: one leader is leaving, the other is unloading, and the backwards phrase means get out from under. The boss's son sees that the rival's stock is about to slump, which will hurt the aunt badly.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior cracks an intercepted tip and shows the boss that a sweetheart's guardian is about to lose heavily."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 513,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "Her lawyers do not know if she has signed; the stock is falling, and Torchy is sent to find and warn her. The maid, caught wearing the girl's hat, trades the aunt's whereabouts for his silence.",
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"predicament": "Someone sent racing to warn a hostile guardian of a ruinous deal presses a servant for her whereabouts."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 514,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "The aunt is at a remote country house party; slow branch-line trains strand him, and he reaches the village at two in the morning and sleeps on a baggage truck.",
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"predicament": "Someone rushing on an urgent errand is stranded by slow connections and ends up sleeping rough at a deserted stop."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 515,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "At dawn he writes a note begging the girl to stop the aunt signing, learns the whole party is out on a yacht, and goes back for an old boat he saw tied up in a creek.",
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"predicament": "Someone chasing an urgent warning arrives to find the people he needs have gone offshore, out of reach."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 516,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "Paddling out, he gives a lift to a young man carrying fuel to a brand-new flying boat he has kept secret from his family; Torchy says he would never go up in it.",
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"predicament": "Someone on an urgent errand meets a daring young man about to try a risky machine his family knows nothing about."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 517,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "When the young man points out the yacht carrying his own parents, and Torchy's sweetheart and her aunt, Torchy begs to fly along, saying he will risk his neck to reach the girl.",
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"predicament": "Someone who swore he would never take a reckless risk begs to take it the moment it can reach his sweetheart."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 518,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "They take off across the water at speed and lift into the air; Torchy clings to a strut in terror.",
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"predicament": "Someone who jumped at a desperate chance finds himself suddenly committed to it and clinging on in terror."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 519,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "His fear fades into delight at the smooth flight; they swing wide of the yacht and he cannot make himself heard over the engine.",
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"predicament": "Someone terrified by a leap into the unknown finds within minutes that he is calm, even enjoying it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 520,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "They climb and dive, then circle back to the yacht; Torchy stuffs his note into a melon he happened to bring so he can drop it on deck.",
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"predicament": "Someone who must deliver a warning with no way to speak improvises a message from whatever he has at hand."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 521,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "He drops the melon on deck as the girl runs to it; the pilot shouts to his mother on board, who faints, and they land back by the dock.",
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"predicament": "A risky dash delivers its message to the sweetheart, while the daredevil's own mother collapses at seeing her son aloft."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 522,
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"story": 38,
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"summary": "The mother forgives her son; the aunt, suspicious at first, checks the falling stock, cancels the deal and thanks Torchy, and the boss's son is amazed by his methods.",
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"predicament": "A suspicious guardian who is saved from a ruinous deal by her ward's suitor has to thank him, however grudgingly."
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}
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]
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