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": 133, "story": 12, "summary": "A youth lives with his mother in a once-grand stone house at the edge of town; the noisy wagons of berry pickers irritate him, and he regrets that he cannot laugh and shout like them.", "predicament": "A reserved young man watches others laugh and joke together, and wishes he could join in as easily as they do."},
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{"chunk": 134, "story": 12, "summary": "His admired father was killed in a street fight over a scandal and left the money squandered; the mother refuses to believe the stories and tells the boy to grow up as good a man as his father.", "predicament": "A widow insists to her son that his father was a good man, whatever people whisper, and holds him up as the model."},
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{"chunk": 135, "story": 12, "summary": "The mother takes work to support them; she expects conventional tears when she scolds, but her son only looks at her steadily, and she has grown half afraid of him.", "predicament": "A parent who expects a child to tremble and weep when scolded finds the child simply looks back, and grows afraid."},
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{"chunk": 136, "story": 12, "summary": "At sixteen he ran off with two boys on a freight car to a fair; his mother, sure he would die violently like his father, memorised stinging reproofs to deliver when he returned.", "predicament": "A parent terrified that a child will repeat the other parent's fate rehearses a furious scolding for his return."},
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{"chunk": 137, "story": 12, "summary": "He returned and explained that he wanted to turn back but stuck it out so as not to be ashamed; she could only say she was glad and kiss him; years later he goes to visit his friend at the hotel.", "predicament": "A young man explains that he saw a foolish adventure through only to avoid being ashamed, and his parent cannot scold him."},
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{"chunk": 138, "story": 12, "summary": "On the stairs he overhears men arguing politics, and, feeling that loneliness is part of his character, watches a sullen baker in the alley.", "predicament": "A young man overhearing others argue passionately about nothing feels that loneliness is simply part of who he is."},
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{"chunk": 139, "story": 12, "summary": "The town calls him deep and expects him to break out like his father, but he has no hidden purpose and wishes he could be stirred by anything, even anger or politics.", "predicament": "A young man everyone thinks deep and full of purpose knows he is only empty, and wishes something would stir him."},
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{"chunk": 140, "story": 12, "summary": "His friend, a young reporter who gathers trivial local news, boasts endlessly of becoming a writer and the free life it will bring.", "predicament": "A talkative young man boasts to a quiet friend about the easy, glorious life he will have once he makes his name."},
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{"chunk": 141, "story": 12, "summary": "The friend announces he will fall in love with the banker's daughter for a story he is writing and asks the youth to sound her out for him; the youth, irritated, goes to leave.", "predicament": "A friend asks a quiet young man to carry his declaration of love to the girl the quiet one secretly cares for."},
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{"chunk": 142, "story": 12, "summary": "He slams the door, calls his friend a fool, and sits in the station yard thinking of the girl as someone private to himself, while men load berries and joke.", "predicament": "A quiet young man, furious at a talkative friend and at his own silence, storms off to speak for himself."},
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{"chunk": 143, "story": 12, "summary": "He resolves to leave for the city and work, depressed that he is not part of the town's life, and watches a half-witted old woodcutter show off his balancing on the road.", "predicament": "A young man who feels no part of the life around him resolves to leave for somewhere bigger and simply work."},
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{"chunk": 144, "story": 12, "summary": "He feels himself an outcast who does not belong, decides he is simply old beyond his years, and knocks awkwardly at the banker's door.", "predicament": "A young man who feels an outsider among his own people decides to leave, then nervously calls on the girl he cares for."},
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{"chunk": 145, "story": 12, "summary": "The girl comes out and he tells her he is leaving for the city; they walk under the lamps, and he remembers the romantic notes she once hid in his books.", "predicament": "A young man tells a girl who once admired him that he is leaving for good, and asks her to walk with him."},
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{"chunk": 146, "story": 12, "summary": "He never answered her notes but was flattered by them; as they walk she takes his hand, and he tells her, against his resolve, that his friend is in love with her.", "predicament": "A young man holding the hand of the girl he cares for tells her instead about his friend's feelings for her."},
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{"chunk": 147, "story": 12, "summary": "Sitting on a bench in his garden, he regrets his decision to leave and daydreams of lying with her among the humming bees in a field.", "predicament": "A young man about to leave home begins to wish he could stay, for the sake of someone he has never spoken to plainly."},
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{"chunk": 148, "story": 12, "summary": "Instead of speaking his feelings, he tells her solemnly that he must strike out and work; she admires him as a purposeful man, and the romance of the evening drains away.", "predicament": "A young man trying to impress the girl he likes talks only of his plans, and the moment of closeness drains away."},
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{"chunk": 149, "story": 12, "summary": "He says he just wants to work and keep quiet, says it is the last time they will meet; she begins to draw his face down, then pulls back and sends him to talk to his mother.", "predicament": "Two young people reach the edge of a real moment of affection, and one of them pulls back just in time."},
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{"chunk": 150, "story": 12, "summary": "She runs off; he watches his mother sewing by the window and decides bitterly that love will always go to someone else, someone who talks, like his friend.", "predicament": "A silent young man concludes bitterly that love will always go to someone else, someone who talks more easily."}
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