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": 523,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "With the boss's son away for a few days, Torchy is effectively running the office on his own, handling confidential matters and callers, and feels puffed up and important.",
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"predicament": "Someone newly promoted, left in charge while the boss is away, begins to feel like the indispensable person at the top."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 524,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "The old head of the firm walks in unannounced, having quit his health cure early and angry at being sidelined; he learns the family are away expecting him, and retreats into his room, long out of touch with the business.",
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"predicament": "The ailing old head, long out of the picture, walks back in unannounced, determined not to be put out to pasture."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 525,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "Not knowing Torchy has been promoted, the old man orders him about as office boy, and Torchy goes along with it; finding him at a desk in the inner office, the old man demands an explanation.",
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"predicament": "Someone newly promoted is ordered about as the lowest junior by an old head who never heard of the change."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 526,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "Torchy explains his dummy-company post; the old man reserves judgement, then demands to know about a vital lease a partner firm has refused to renew, and the senior clerk blames the absent son.",
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"predicament": "A returning old head springs a crisis on a newly promoted junior, while a senior colleague shifts the blame elsewhere."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 527,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "The file shows only a polite request and a refusal; the lease expires tomorrow, and the old man realises a powerful, reclusive financier he has fought before is behind it, and rouses himself for battle.",
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"predicament": "An old head who feared he was finished finds a crisis only he knows how to fight, and comes back to life."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 528,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "He has the whole office in a frenzy for hours preparing, then tells Torchy to come along to see the financier.",
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"predicament": "The returning old head sets the whole place scrambling, and takes the newly promoted junior with him into battle."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 529,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "The financier is famous for being unreachable; at his building a house detective says no one knows where he is, and the old man refuses to believe it.",
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"predicament": "Two people set out to confront a powerful man who is famous for never letting anyone reach him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 530,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "Upstairs, the silent, secretive offices yield only a clerk who denies knowing the man; the old man storms out, and Torchy recalls the financier is said to use a private lift.",
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"predicament": "Stonewalled by a smiling gatekeeper, an outraged elder is ready to give up, and his junior spots a possible back way in."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 531,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "Circling the block, Torchy hails a telegraph messenger boy, trades on his own past as one, and has the boss tip the boy a dollar.",
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"predicament": "Someone risen from the bottom uses the knowledge and slang of his old rank to win over a lowly runner."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 532,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "For five dollars more the boy reveals the financier's messenger always enters by a side door in a nearby bank, guarded by a watchman; Torchy asks what excuse they could use.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior bribes a lowly runner into revealing the hidden route to a powerful man's door."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 533,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "Learning the financier loves fancy poultry, Torchy buys two prize birds; at the secret door he tells the guard his boss is a famous breeder delivering birds that were ordered.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior uses a powerful man's pet hobby as a cover story to talk his boss past a suspicious guard."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 534,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "The ruse works; the financier comes out expecting the birds, recognises his old rival, and is annoyed to learn how they got in.",
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"predicament": "A reclusive man of power comes out for his hobby and finds an old rival smuggled in by a cheeky junior."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 535,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "The financier squirms and refuses until the old man threatens foreclosure on a defaulted bond issue he holds; the financier gives way and admires the birds, which the old man says are Torchy's gift.",
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"predicament": "An old fighter confronts a slippery rival and wins by quietly naming the lever he holds over him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 536,
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"story": 39,
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"summary": "The lease arrives signed before closing; the old man approves of Torchy's promotion and doubles his salary.",
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"predicament": "The formidable old head, won over by his junior's resourcefulness, approves the promotion he never knew about and raises his pay."
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}
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]
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