JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5
3a4758172d
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": 78, "story": 7, "summary": "The daughter, unwanted by her hard father and born of an overworked mother, grew up a moody child hungry for love; at fifteen she goes to town to board with a merchant obsessed with education.", "predicament": "An unloved young woman leaves a cold home to board with another family, hoping at last to find warmth."},
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{"chunk": 79, "story": 7, "summary": "The merchant's daughters hate books; the girl had imagined town as all gaiety and free affection, and might have found some but for an early mistake.", "predicament": "A lonely young woman arrives in a new place expecting warmth and freedom, and one early misstep closes the door."},
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{"chunk": 80, "story": 7, "summary": "Lonely and timid, she throws herself into her studies and shows off in class; the merchant praises her at dinner and shames his own daughters by comparison.", "predicament": "A lonely newcomer tries to win approval by excelling, and is held up as a model to the people she needs as friends."},
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{"chunk": 81, "story": 7, "summary": "The merchant rages at his indifferent daughters that the newcomer will leave them far behind, frightening her upstairs, then forgets it all chatting on the main street.", "predicament": "A parent who rages at his own children over their lack of ambition forgets the whole matter the moment he is outside."},
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{"chunk": 82, "story": 7, "summary": "Frozen out by the daughters, she cries and is sent to her room; she fixes on the son who brings her firewood each night but cannot speak when he comes.", "predicament": "A lonely young woman shut out by the household fixes on the one person who is kind, and cannot say a word to him."},
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{"chunk": 83, "story": 7, "summary": "She feels a wall stands between her and a warm inner circle of life, and becomes obsessed that one brave act would open it, fixing on the son simply because he was not unfriendly.", "predicament": "A young woman who feels walled off from the warmth others share becomes convinced one brave act will let her in."},
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{"chunk": 84, "story": 7, "summary": "The narrator describes how town girls courted in closed parlours; one evening the son remarks awkwardly on how hard she works and hurries out.", "predicament": "A shy young man manages one awkward kind remark to a young woman who longs for him, and then flees."},
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{"chunk": 85, "story": 7, "summary": "She calls softly after him from her window, then creeps downstairs to find him in the orchard, but must hide under the stairs when a daughter and her suitor come into the room.", "predicament": "A young woman finally screws up the courage to go to the one she wants, and is forced to hide instead."},
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{"chunk": 86, "story": 7, "summary": "Hiding, she overhears the daughter struggling and laughing in her suitor's embrace; then she slips the son a note saying she wants someone to love and to come under her window.", "predicament": "A lonely young woman puts her longing plainly into a note to a young man and waits, terrified, for his answer."},
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{"chunk": 87, "story": 7, "summary": "Unsure whether she even wants him to come, she avoids him, and after nights of listening in vain decides there is no way through the wall for her.", "predicament": "A young woman who has declared herself hears nothing back and decides she will never break out of her isolation."},
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{"chunk": 88, "story": 7, "summary": "Weeks later he comes to call under her window; on the drive home days before, she had burst out to a shy young farm hand that she hates everyone.", "predicament": "A young woman who believes she has been ignored bursts out to an awkward companion that she hates everyone."},
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{"chunk": 89, "story": 7, "summary": "She lays her head on the hand's shoulder, he whistles in alarm, and she throws his hat in the road and drives off; she takes the son as her lover, they marry fearing a pregnancy, and he never hears the hunger she tries to explain.", "predicament": "A young woman who wanted to be understood gets a lover and a hasty marriage instead, and her partner never listens."},
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{"chunk": 90, "story": 7, "summary": "When the feared pregnancy proves false she is bitter; when her son is born she cannot decide whether she wants him, and says she would have done anything for a daughter.", "predicament": "A young mother trapped by a marriage she did not want cannot decide whether she even wants the child she has."}
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