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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{"chunk": 63, "story": 6, "summary": "With the treasury empty and the machine still unfinished, the promoter leers at the old man's daughter, then tells the investors seven thousand more is needed.", "predicament": "A promoter who has drained the treasury tells worried investors that more money is needed at once to finish the work."},
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{"chunk": 64, "story": 6, "summary": "The old man accuses him of waste; the promoter scorns their small-shop thinking, demands they sell treasury stock, and meanwhile secretly sells his own.", "predicament": "A promoter scorns his investors' small-business caution and demands they raise more money, while quietly selling off his own shares."},
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{"chunk": 65, "story": 6, "summary": "The young man, pressed by unpaid suppliers, accuses the promoter of selling worthless private stock to the very prospects the company was courting, and refuses to record the sale.", "predicament": "A partner realises the shares his associate is selling to friends are worthless, and refuses to put his name to the sale."},
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{"chunk": 66, "story": 6, "summary": "He calls the promoter a thief; the promoter replies that the young man is the one drawing a salary, leaving him sick with conscience.", "predicament": "A partner who calls his associate a thief is reminded that he himself draws a salary from the same crooked business."},
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{"chunk": 67, "story": 6, "summary": "The investors hold an indignation meeting, but seeing the covering machine apparently work, they conclude the promoter is a big man after all.", "predicament": "Angry investors see a demonstration that seems to work and decide the promoter they were cursing must be a genius after all."},
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{"chunk": 68, "story": 6, "summary": "To save what they have put in they raise ten thousand more, mortgaging again, then scrape up small sums from friends, while the promoter sells twenty thousand of his own stock.", "predicament": "Investors mortgage their homes and tap every friend to save what they have already sunk, while the promoter sells out."},
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{"chunk": 69, "story": 6, "summary": "A lawyer for a rival company delivers notice that it has sold exactly this product, with roughened heads, for three years.", "predicament": "A partner learns from a rival's representative that the product his company was built on has been sold by others for years."},
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{"chunk": 70, "story": 6, "summary": "The young man realises the special machinery is scrap and every cent the investors put in is gone.", "predicament": "A partner realises that everything he and his friends invested is lost beyond recovery, and must decide who to tell first."},
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{"chunk": 71, "story": 6, "summary": "He telephones the old man with the news; the old man cannot take it in and the line goes silent.", "predicament": "A young partner must break the news of total ruin to the older friend he persuaded to invest his life's savings."},
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{"chunk": 72, "story": 6, "summary": "Drunk after a night out, the promoter drives to the old man's house to squeeze out more money before fleeing, and finds the daughter alone.", "predicament": "A promoter planning to flee decides, recklessly, to squeeze one last payment from a ruined investor before the collapse is known."},
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{"chunk": 73, "story": 6, "summary": "He lunges at the daughter; she flees just as her father arrives, and the old man, seeing him, flies at him in a rage.", "predicament": "A ruined investor comes home to find the man who took his savings threatening his family, and flies at him in rage."},
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{"chunk": 74, "story": 6, "summary": "The big man whimpers for mercy while the old man throttles him; a friend warns there is a law against it, and the old man cries that the law did not save his savings.", "predicament": "A man robbed of everything is warned that the law forbids revenge, and answers that the law never protected him."},
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{"chunk": 75, "story": 6, "summary": "The old man beats the swindler until he collapses from a stroke beside him.", "predicament": "A ruined man takes his revenge with his own fists, and the effort breaks his health on the spot."},
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{"chunk": 76, "story": 6, "summary": "The friend throws the sobbing swindler out; his chauffeur, well paid for months, drives him home secretly delighted.", "predicament": "A well-paid underling sees his lavish employer humiliated and quietly enjoys it, owing him no loyalty beyond his wages."},
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{"chunk": 77, "story": 6, "summary": "The young man arrives; the daughter falls against him and he realises he loves her, while her ruined, stricken father smiles.", "predicament": "A young man ruined by his own trust finds, in the wreck, the person he should have been paying attention to all along."}
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