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": 100, "story": 9, "summary": "A small man living with his silent mother is seized by ideas like fits, pouncing on bystanders and talking at them until they cannot escape.", "predicament": "A man overtaken by sudden enthusiasms corners anyone nearby and talks at them until they cannot get away."},
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{"chunk": 101, "story": 9, "summary": "Silent and over-polite at his work, a job his father got him, he is watched warily by the townsmen; he bursts into a store where men are debating a horse race.", "predicament": "Everyone around the odd man watches warily for his next outburst, amused and ready to slip away."},
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{"chunk": 102, "story": 9, "summary": "He announces that the creek has risen without rain, describes measuring it and puzzling over it, and triumphantly concludes it must have rained upstream.", "predicament": "An odd man interrupts a group's serious talk to share a small discovery that thrills him and bores everyone else."},
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{"chunk": 103, "story": 9, "summary": "He goes back to his rounds, then corners the young reporter, insisting he himself should have the boy's job and could do it in his odd moments.", "predicament": "An older man envies a young one's position, insisting he was the one truly meant for it."},
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{"chunk": 104, "story": 9, "summary": "He dictates a theory that decay is fire and the world is on fire, promises to make the boy a 'hummer', and says he should start a paper himself; that year he loses his mother, moves to the hotel, falls in love and starts a baseball club.", "predicament": "A man full of ideas nobody asked for presses them on a young beginner, promising to make him a success."},
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{"chunk": 105, "story": 9, "summary": "Coaching the town's baseball team, he mesmerises players on both sides and wins the town's respect; then he courts a sad, lean woman whose family is feared.", "predicament": "An odd man finally earns everyone's respect for one gift, then risks it by courting someone everyone fears."},
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{"chunk": 106, "story": 9, "summary": "Her father and brother are unpopular outsiders said to be dangerous; the son reportedly killed a man and once killed a dog with his stick, and the father laughs unnervingly.", "predicament": "A family of newcomers with a violent reputation is shunned and feared by everyone around them."},
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{"chunk": 107, "story": 9, "summary": "The town laughs nervously at the courtship and waits for tragedy; the two menacing men wait in his hotel room while the young reporter, trembling, listens nearby.", "predicament": "Everyone waits nervously for the moment a suitor must face the dangerous family of the woman he loves."},
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{"chunk": 108, "story": 9, "summary": "He arrives with an armful of weeds, ignores the son's threat, and launches into an idea he wanted to explain to them and to her anyway.", "predicament": "A man confronted by angry relatives of the woman he loves ignores their threats and carries them off with his enthusiasm."},
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{"chunk": 109, "story": 9, "summary": "He expounds how, if all crops were destroyed, people could breed new ones from wild grasses; the men laugh, and he wants to go tell her.", "predicament": "An odd man disarms his would-be enemies by treating them as an eager audience for his latest idea."},
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{"chunk": 110, "story": 9, "summary": "The reporter watches from the window as he walks off with the two men, the fierce son stooping to listen, fascinated, while he talks of milkweed and of her.", "predicament": "The men who came to threaten an odd suitor walk off with him as his fascinated listeners."}
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