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": 675,
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"story": 50,
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"summary": "Now sitting in on directors' meetings, Torchy is sent to the boss's son's desk for papers and cigarettes, and brings back an old leather case that holds only a miniature portrait of a young woman.",
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"predicament": "Someone now trusted in the inner councils fetches something from the boss's desk and uncovers a private keepsake by mistake."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 676,
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"story": 50,
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"summary": "The boss's son blushes and admits she jilted him, not the reverse; Torchy is astonished, since he is one of the most eligible bachelors in town.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior stumbles on the boss's old heartbreak and cannot believe any woman would have turned him down."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 677,
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"story": 50,
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"summary": "He dwells fondly on her face, then declares it hopeless and tells Torchy to put the dusty case back in the drawer or the wastebasket.",
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"predicament": "A boss caught mooning over an old love brushes it off as hopeless, while his junior sees he has not forgotten."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 678,
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"story": 50,
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"summary": "Torchy broods over how to repay the boss's son for his help with his own romance; on his supervised weekly visit, now announced by his new family name, he holds yarn for his sweetheart while the aunt watches.",
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"predicament": "Someone indebted to a kind boss for help with his own courtship looks for a way to return the favour."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 679,
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"story": 50,
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"summary": "He spots a concert leaflet on the table showing the woman in the miniature, a singer giving a charity recital, and hints the story to his sweetheart.",
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"predicament": "Someone recognises, on a chance leaflet, the face of the woman his boss once loved and lost."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 680,
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"story": 50,
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"summary": "The sweetheart is thrilled; they plot together, and next morning Torchy slips the leaflet into the boss's son's mail in an ordinary envelope.",
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"predicament": "Someone junior and his sweetheart plot to rekindle the boss's lost romance, beginning with a planted reminder in his mail."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 681,
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"story": 50,
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"summary": "The boss's son shows no reaction and says nothing all day, but keeps the leaflet; Torchy and his sweetheart decide to go ahead.",
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"predicament": "A junior who meddled in the boss's private life cannot read his reaction, and decides to push further anyway."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 682,
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"story": 50,
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"summary": "At the fashionable recital the singer turns out to be plain and simple in manner, until she begins to sing.",
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"predicament": "Two meddlers go to inspect the woman who broke the boss's heart, and are at first unimpressed."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 683,
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"story": 50,
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"summary": "Her singing wins the audience over; when flowers are thrown, Torchy tosses a dozen roses bearing the boss's son's card at her feet.",
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"predicament": "A junior plays a bold trick in public, sending a gift to the boss's lost love under the boss's own name."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 684,
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"story": 50,
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"summary": "She reads the card, blushes, falters, searches the audience, and after the interval returns wearing the roses over her heart.",
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"predicament": "A woman receives a gift she believes comes from a man she lost long ago, and is visibly overcome."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 685,
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"story": 50,
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"summary": "After the concert she comes down into the audience, and Torchy and his sweetheart try to flee; she goes instead to the boss's son, who was there all along, and thanks him for the roses; he catches Torchy's eye and plays along.",
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"predicament": "A boss thanked for a gift he never sent realises his junior sent it, and plays along to spare everyone."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 686,
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"story": 50,
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"summary": "Outside, the boss's son asks whether his card went with the roses, says sarcastically that he hopes his part satisfied them, and stalks off; the sweetheart laughs that he is not really angry.",
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"predicament": "A junior caught meddling in the boss's love life fears his anger, while his sweetheart is sure he is secretly pleased."
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}
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]
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