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": 295, "story": 25, "summary": "The confederate, grey and frightened, is wanted for selling oil wells that did not exist; the promoter can give him only ten dollars.", "predicament": "An old accomplice on the run begs for help, and a schemer who is himself nearly broke gives him his last few dollars."},
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{"chunk": 296, "story": 25, "summary": "The promoter admits he has lost his touch since his great fall; the confederate is terrified of a plain-clothes man across the street.", "predicament": "A schemer who once found easy money everywhere admits that since his big loss he can no longer think small enough."},
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{"chunk": 297, "story": 25, "summary": "The confederate says all their old associates are in prison and they are next, then flees.", "predicament": "A frightened schemer warns his oldest friend that everyone else they worked with is in prison, and that they are next."},
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{"chunk": 298, "story": 25, "summary": "Walking back, the promoter sees that small cigar stores buy at retail and hatches his plan; the hotel clerk is waiting to press him about his unpaid bill.", "predicament": "A guest who owes a large bill he cannot pay walks straight up to the clerk, having just found his next scheme."},
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{"chunk": 299, "story": 25, "summary": "He complains angrily about the wine and threatens to pay and leave, and the relieved clerk stops worrying; his wife senses good news.", "predicament": "A guest who cannot pay his bill complains loudly about the service, so that the anxious clerk stops worrying about payment."},
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{"chunk": 300, "story": 25, "summary": "He announces he will settle here and take half the profits of the town's small cigar shops; she tells him she is expecting a child.", "predicament": "A schemer's partner learns he means to settle and run a business, and tells him they are about to have a child."},
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{"chunk": 301, "story": 25, "summary": "He drafts plans through the night, orders printing, and returns to the shabby shop in a showy carriage that wakes the loungers.", "predicament": "A promoter with nothing in his pocket returns to a struggling small business in a hired show of wealth to make his offer."},
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{"chunk": 302, "story": 25, "summary": "He offers the maker eight hundred dollars for his business, which is a good price; the maker wants more.", "predicament": "A struggling small trader is suddenly offered a fair price for his business by a stranger who has no money."},
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{"chunk": 303, "story": 25, "summary": "The promoter explains the consolidation and says he will buy some stores for cash; the maker fears being frozen out if he refuses.", "predicament": "A small trader offered a place in a new combination fears that if he refuses he will be squeezed out of business."},
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{"chunk": 304, "story": 25, "summary": "The promoter explains stores will be bought for stock, owners kept on salary, and costs cut by bulk buying; the loungers listen avidly.", "predicament": "A small trader is told that trading his business for shares will double his profits while he keeps running it himself."},
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{"chunk": 305, "story": 25, "summary": "The maker, convinced, agrees; the promoter offers him a directorship and hints he may sell his shop to the combination at an inflated price.", "predicament": "A small trader is offered a seat on the board and a quiet chance to sell his own business to it above value."},
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{"chunk": 306, "story": 25, "summary": "The maker, now a knowing insider, fetches two not-too-smart friends to join, and rides in the carriage.", "predicament": "A mark who has been let in on the inside eagerly brings in friends he privately thinks are easier marks than himself."}
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