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": 214, "story": 19, "summary": "The promoter returns by motor car to an ovation; the town's great man comes out bareheaded, and the notable who got option money has smartened himself up.", "predicament": "A town that has been waiting for a rich man's return greets him as a saviour, and a notable enriched by trifles struts."},
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{"chunk": 215, "story": 19, "summary": "Wanting to be a real millionaire now, he banks his hundred thousand locally and takes options on all vacant land with non-negotiable notes, which the banker says he will lend on at face value.", "predicament": "A promoter ties up a whole town's vacant land with promises to pay later, and the town's leading lender vouches for his notes."},
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{"chunk": 216, "story": 19, "summary": "He buys a boarding house to be made a mansion, hires local servants, and leaves; the paper reports him buying property in neighbouring towns.", "predicament": "A promoter sets up a lavish local household and then goes quietly buying land in neighbouring towns, letting rumour spread."},
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{"chunk": 217, "story": 19, "summary": "The editor deduces from the pattern of purchases along the road that a traction line is coming, with the town as headquarters.", "predicament": "A local booster pieces together a rich man's land purchases and announces the great enterprise he thinks is coming."},
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{"chunk": 218, "story": 19, "summary": "The town comes alive with hope and every idle dollar looks like a raft to prosperity; only the suspicious hotel keeper remembers he had no luggage.", "predicament": "A whole town comes alive with dreams of wealth, and only one soured, suspicious host remembers something did not add up."},
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{"chunk": 219, "story": 19, "summary": "Mobbed at the bank, he confirms the traction line and hints at car shops if citizens do their share; the great man gives a speech of thanks.", "predicament": "A promoter hints that the town will get the great enterprise if its citizens do their part, and the crowd cheers him."},
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{"chunk": 220, "story": 19, "summary": "The whole town surges to his mansion with a brass band, eating and drinking while special editions promise every citizen riches.", "predicament": "A whole town feasts at a promoter's expense and reads that every one of them is about to become rich."},
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{"chunk": 221, "story": 19, "summary": "The boom spreads a hundred miles; his wife is proud of all the value he has created, and he laughs that it cost him two hundred and fifty dollars.", "predicament": "A schemer's partner is proud of the prosperity he seems to have created, not knowing it rests on almost nothing."},
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{"chunk": 222, "story": 19, "summary": "Money fever grips the town; the chamber of commerce asks what the traction company wants in return for building its shops there.", "predicament": "Town leaders caught in a fever of hope ask the promoter what they must give to win the great enterprise."},
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{"chunk": 223, "story": 19, "summary": "He asks no cash, only land, a franchise and repayment of his option money, which he promises to double and spend on a fountain.", "predicament": "A promoter modestly asks the town only to buy back his rights to its land and give him more free, promising a gift."},
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{"chunk": 224, "story": 19, "summary": "The town's leaders guarantee the franchise; village councils along the route give streets and station grounds away before he even asks.", "predicament": "Town councils eager for a promised enterprise give away valuable rights for nothing before they are even asked."},
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{"chunk": 225, "story": 19, "summary": "In yellow boots and a buckboard he wins rights of way from farmers with promises of stops, sidings and cheap freight.", "predicament": "A promoter dressed as a working builder wins over small producers one by one with promises of the services they have always wanted."},
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{"chunk": 226, "story": 19, "summary": "His wife is welcomed by the town's social leaders and blossoms, begging him to stay for good and suggesting he could hold public office.", "predicament": "A schemer's partner, finally accepted in respectable society, begs him to settle down for good and make his position real."},
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{"chunk": 227, "story": 19, "summary": "He laughs that there is not enough money in office, and treats her planned reception as a good business move.", "predicament": "A schemer dismisses his partner's hope of an honest place in the town, treating even her party as a business move."}
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