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JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5 3a4758172d story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3
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
2026-10-07 06:05:51 -04:00

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{"chunk": 8, "story": 1,
"summary": "The careful young man answers an advertisement for a post in the new company; the promoter feigns reluctance and learns the visitor prides himself on his competence.",
"predicament": "A promoter pretends to hesitate over a prized post so that the proud applicant he wants will push hard to win it."},
{"chunk": 9, "story": 1,
"summary": "The promoter describes the immense business to come; the applicant, falling under the spell, insists he has no money to invest.",
"predicament": "A careful man tempted by a grand new venture announces up front that none of his own savings are on offer."},
{"chunk": 10, "story": 1,
"summary": "The promoter says he wants only the man's services, not his money, and turns cool and demanding; the applicant hurries to give references.",
"predicament": "A promoter swears he wants no investment at all, only skill, and the wary candidate starts eagerly proving his worth instead."},
{"chunk": 11, "story": 1,
"summary": "The promoter shows a handful of cloth-covered tacks and holds one against the rusty ones in the carpet; the applicant asks about cost.",
"predicament": "A promoter puts a pretty sample in a doubter's hand, letting him see and touch what is really nothing much."},
{"chunk": 12, "story": 1,
"summary": "He reels off fabulous profits and a giant rival that would buy them out for millions, and the applicant, who had resisted the gold-mine seller, is overwhelmed.",
"predicament": "A cautious man who resisted a distant fortune is overwhelmed by glowing profit figures for something he can hold in his hand."},
{"chunk": 13, "story": 1,
"summary": "The promoter says the stock will go only to a few large holders, and the applicant is disappointed to be shut out of such a sure thing.",
"predicament": "A promoter says shares will go only to a few big investors, making a cautious man suddenly afraid of being left out."},
{"chunk": 14, "story": 1,
"summary": "Sweating from the effort, the promoter sees the man is wholly convinced, and presses him to stay for dinner despite his plain clothes.",
"predicament": "A modest man, dazzled by a vision of great profits, is pressed to stay for a dinner far above his usual station."},
{"chunk": 15, "story": 1,
"summary": "The promoter has a private dinner served and buys the guest fresh linen on the hotel's account; the guest begins to feel himself grand.",
"predicament": "A modest guest, outfitted and feasted on someone else's credit, starts to feel as grand as the host who is dazzling him."},
{"chunk": 16, "story": 1,
"summary": "After champagne, box seats and supper, the guest thinks the host a financial genius and accepts the post in the company.",
"predicament": "After a lavish evening, a cautious man decides his generous host is beyond question and joins the venture."}
]