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": 182, "story": 16, "summary": "A quiet farm boy who walked dreamily down the middle of the road went to the big city at twenty-one to study art, planning to finish abroad, which never happened.", "predicament": "A dreamy young man leaves his small beginnings to develop his gift somewhere bigger, planning grand next steps that never come."},
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{"chunk": 183, "story": 16, "summary": "Nothing turned out for him; always a child, he could not understand people or make them understand him, was lamed by an accident, frightened by a magistrate, and ran from a streetwalker who laughed at him.", "predicament": "A childlike young man out in the wider world keeps colliding with money, sex and other people's opinions, and retreats humiliated."},
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{"chunk": 184, "story": 16, "summary": "In his long narrow room, young artists gather to talk endlessly of art; he sits in a corner saying nothing while they discuss his half-finished pictures.", "predicament": "A shy young man sits silent in a corner while clever talkers pick over his work, missing everything he meant by it."},
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{"chunk": 185, "story": 16, "summary": "He longs to tell them they miss the point, that a dark spot in his painting hides something from home, but he stammers and stops.", "predicament": "A young man knows exactly what he wants to say about his own work, and cannot get a single word of it out."},
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{"chunk": 186, "story": 16, "summary": "He never speaks, begins to doubt himself, locks his door, and fills his room with imaginary people to whom he can explain everything.", "predicament": "A man who cannot make real people understand him shuts them out and invents companions who always understand."},
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{"chunk": 187, "story": 16, "summary": "Among his imagined people he is a bold little king; then, lonely for real flesh, he marries a fellow student, has two children, and takes a job drawing advertisements.", "predicament": "A man who lived happily in his own head grows lonely for real people and settles into a conventional marriage and job."},
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{"chunk": 188, "story": 16, "summary": "He plays at being a solid citizen, voting, reading the paper, walking behind businessmen to look important, and proud of a political opinion he aired on a train.", "predicament": "A dreamer tries on the part of the solid, respectable citizen and is proud of himself for a while."},
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{"chunk": 189, "story": 16, "summary": "Feeling walled in, he lies to his wife to walk alone at night, secretly re-rents his old room, then gives her his inheritance and leaves; she, thinking him mad, remarries contentedly.", "predicament": "A man who feels smothered by family life slips away in secret, then abandons it altogether for his old solitude."},
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{"chunk": 190, "story": 16, "summary": "Back in his room he lives happily among two dozen imagined people until a woman comes into his life and drives him home to live out his days obscurely; he tells the young reporter about it.", "predicament": "A man living contentedly in his own private world is about to be driven out of it by one real person."},
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{"chunk": 191, "story": 16, "summary": "On a drizzly October night the young reporter wanders sadly in the rain, much as the old man does, his mood touched by his mother's illness and by thinking about himself.", "predicament": "A young man wanders alone in a vague sadness he cannot explain, in a mood to understand another lonely person."},
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{"chunk": 192, "story": 16, "summary": "The old man, thought a little mad, invites the boy to his room, saying he can understand if he will only listen and believe.", "predicament": "An old man everyone thinks half mad chooses one young person to hear his story, asking only to be believed."},
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{"chunk": 193, "story": 16, "summary": "In his bare room he tells how a woman neighbour began visiting him, sitting beside him saying nothing that mattered; the boy moves to sit beside him.", "predicament": "A lonely old man tells a young listener how someone once began quietly entering his solitary life."},
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{"chunk": 194, "story": 16, "summary": "He says she seemed too big for the room and drove everything else away; he wanted and did not want her, and against his will told her everything that mattered to him.", "predicament": "A man who has lived alone wants someone and fears her at once, and cannot stop himself opening up to her."},
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{"chunk": 195, "story": 16, "summary": "He wanted her to see how important he was, locked the door and talked on; when he saw she understood, he was furious; he tells the boy to go, but the boy demands the rest.", "predicament": "A man desperate to be understood realises he has been, and the thought of being truly known terrifies him."},
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{"chunk": 196, "story": 16, "summary": "He cursed her until she left for good, and all his imagined people left with her; the boy goes, hearing the old man whimper that he is all alone.", "predicament": "A man drives away the one person who understood him, and loses his private comforts along with her."}
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