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": 269, "story": 23, "summary": "He mails a penny journal to a million members, then brings the placid broker four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars to bet on wheat.", "predicament": "A promoter stakes his entire fortune on one enormous gamble, placing it with a quiet firm he has come to trust completely."},
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{"chunk": 270, "story": 23, "summary": "The broker will not predict but agrees to buy nearly two million bushels; the swindler says he will turn it into a clean million.", "predicament": "A schemer tells a quiet, careful handler that he means to turn his whole stake into a fortune, and the handler says little."},
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{"chunk": 271, "story": 23, "summary": "He arranges for the broker to sell to other buyers when the price peaks, and has the firm advertise in his journal that it handles his trades.", "predicament": "A promoter arranges for his own followers to be steered to the firm that will quietly sell them his holdings at the top."},
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{"chunk": 272, "story": 23, "summary": "The crop grows; the young farmer's scientific methods produce the best wheat in the district.", "predicament": "An honest young worker's patient methods succeed brilliantly on land his employer bought only as a stage set for a scheme."},
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{"chunk": 273, "story": 23, "summary": "Rumours push prices up; the journal urges every farmer to hold his wheat for a dollar and a half, and farmers refuse to sell.", "predicament": "Small producers are urged by a trusted leader to hold back everything they have until a promised higher price arrives."},
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{"chunk": 274, "story": 23, "summary": "Across the wheat belt farmers refuse ordinary prices; the swindler laughs that the exchange can be frightened by a pumpkin.", "predicament": "Small producers everywhere hold out for a promised price, and the promoter behind it boasts how easily the big traders can be frightened."},
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{"chunk": 275, "story": 23, "summary": "Wheat jumps ten cents, wiping out small speculators; the journal urges every farmer to invest every loose dollar in wheat on margin through the swindler's broker.", "predicament": "Small producers are urged by the leader they trust to gamble every spare dollar, as a duty, through his own brokers."},
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{"chunk": 276, "story": 23, "summary": "Farmers sell real wheat and gamble the cash on paper wheat; the pit goes wild; neighbours brag of profits as the swindler heads for the city.", "predicament": "Neighbours who never gambled before mortgage their land to speculate, and brag to each other about paper profits."},
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{"chunk": 277, "story": 23, "summary": "The young farmer's father, who distrusts speculation, wants a share of the easy money until his son says everyone must hold their wheat.", "predicament": "A careful old man who distrusts speculation is tempted by his neighbours' easy profits and asks his son how to get in."},
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{"chunk": 278, "story": 23, "summary": "Realising the whole thing depends on everyone else holding, the old man sells his wheat and banks the money; the swindler exults that a million makes him a financier.", "predicament": "A shrewd old man sees the boom depends on others holding firm, and quietly cashes out while his son calls him a traitor."},
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{"chunk": 279, "story": 23, "summary": "His wife asks why he pushed farmers to speculate; he says someone had to buy his wheat when he sold, and the confederate says the farmers will sell to the sheriff.", "predicament": "A schemer's partner discovers the followers he urged to invest were simply there to buy him out at the top."},
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{"chunk": 280, "story": 23, "summary": "The market breaks as farmers rush to sell; he tells his confederate the farmers cut their own throats and will hold the bag.", "predicament": "A promoter sees his followers' boom collapse and blames them for not holding together long enough to save themselves."},
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{"chunk": 281, "story": 23, "summary": "He reasons from the prices that his broker sold at his target; the confederate says the money came from the farmers, and he says it is his now.", "predicament": "A promoter assures his partner that his holdings were sold at the peak, and that his followers' lost money is now his."}
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