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": 620,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "The boss's son, too busy to follow up a dinner-party promise, sends Torchy to help promote and sell the work of a penniless young Belgian sculptor, a cause taken up by the sweetheart's aunt.",
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"predicament": "A busy boss hands his right hand a social favour he rashly promised, which turns out to involve the sweetheart's guardian."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 621,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "At the shabby studio the aunt scorns Torchy as a substitute while his sweetheart defends him; the frail sculptor, decorating on a ladder, grows dizzy.",
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"predicament": "Someone sent in the boss's place is scorned by a haughty guardian, while his sweetheart speaks up for his new standing."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 622,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "Torchy catches the fainting sculptor, then spends an hour doing all the decorating, turning the bare loft into a showy studio with the aunt's borrowed finery.",
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"predicament": "Someone sent as a stand-in catches a collapsing helper and ends up doing all the heavy work himself."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 623,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "Torchy tells the aunt to make the show invitation-only, mark prices up and give the margin to Belgian relief for publicity, and woo the reporters at home; she swallows her disdain and adopts the plan.",
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"predicament": "Someone the guardian scorns gives her shrewd, worldly advice that she swallows her pride to adopt as her own."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 624,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "He offers to draw up a list of wealthy guests; she adds a rich but socially unacceptable merchant, then makes clear Torchy himself is not welcome at the event.",
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"predicament": "A guardian gladly uses her ward's suitor's skills, then tells him he is too humble to attend the occasion himself."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 625,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "The aunt says she merely recognises existing social distinctions; she insists on coming along to buy the tea things, and Torchy leads them to one of the merchant's cheap chain groceries.",
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"predicament": "A snobbish guardian defends her class barriers, then insists on chaperoning her ward and suitor on a humble errand."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 626,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "A stout, expert clerk serves them; the aunt recognises him as a poor boy from her childhood town who used to ask her to skate, and recalls something odd about his family.",
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"predicament": "A snobbish woman recognises the humble shop assistant serving her as a poor boy who once admired her."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 627,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "She patronises him about his lowly job and large family and offers her niece's cast-off clothes, while he answers meekly.",
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"predicament": "A snob condescends to a childhood admirer she thinks has come down in life, offering him cast-offs and advice."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 628,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "A chauffeur arrives with telegrams for him, and he admits the limousine and the store are his; he is the very merchant she wanted to reach.",
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"predicament": "A snob who has just patronised a humble man learns he is far richer and more powerful than she is."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 629,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "He explains he owns nearly a hundred stores and was filling in for a sick manager; he takes Torchy for her son, and she asks whether he means to retire from such petty work.",
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"predicament": "A humiliated snob tries to regain the upper hand by suggesting the rich man's trade is beneath him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 630,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "He says his business, with thousands of employees, feeds poor people honestly at a small profit and is neither petty nor sordid, and he will not retire.",
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"predicament": "A self-made man calmly defends the humble trade he rose through, and says he takes real pride in it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 631,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "He drives them back in his car, views the sculptures, declines to attend as being from the wrong end of town, orders four bronzes and leaves a large cheque.",
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"predicament": "A rich man snubbed for his origins declines the grand occasion but quietly gives the struggling cause more than anyone."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 632,
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"story": 46,
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"summary": "The mellowed aunt tells Torchy to come to the tea after all, in his best coat, and he reports to the boss's son that he and the aunt make a great team.",
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"predicament": "A guardian softened by a chastening encounter unexpectedly invites her ward's suitor to the occasion she barred him from."
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}
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]
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