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": 197, "story": 17, "summary": "A strong, dark young woman who trims hats lives with her petty, fussy father, who once made her life unbearable but has lost his power over her; he flies into week-long rages if his trouser-press boards are moved.", "predicament": "A grown daughter still lives under the roof of a petty, fussy parent who once bullied her and now fears her."},
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{"chunk": 198, "story": 17, "summary": "Knowing he brutalised her mother, she smears his pressing boards with mud; she walks out with the young reporter as a relief while secretly loving a bartender she thinks beneath her station.", "predicament": "A young woman secretly loves someone she thinks beneath her, and keeps company with a safer admirer to ease the longing."},
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{"chunk": 199, "story": 17, "summary": "The bartender once inherited a farm and spent the money in six months on a wild spree of parties, mistresses and gambling, ending by smashing mirrors and windows in a rampage.", "predicament": "A man who suddenly came into money spent it all in a few wild months and ended in a destructive rampage."},
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{"chunk": 200, "story": 17, "summary": "On their one evening together he took her driving, told her clumsily he wanted to marry her, kissed her into helplessness, and swore he would have her for good next time.", "predicament": "A plain-spoken man who cannot find words for his feelings shows them by force, and swears he will have her."},
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{"chunk": 201, "story": 17, "summary": "In a pool room the young reporter holds forth that women must look out for themselves, eager for attention, until another youth outboasts him with a brothel story.", "predicament": "A young man shows off among his peers with worldly talk he does not believe, until someone louder outdoes him."},
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{"chunk": 202, "story": 17, "summary": "Walking alone under a new moon he forgets his companions and plays at being a drunkard and then an officer inspecting troops, scolding a tree for disorder.", "predicament": "A young man alone at night plays out fantasies of command, trying on a grander self where nobody can see."},
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{"chunk": 203, "story": 17, "summary": "Carried away, he speaks of a law of order running from little things to the stars, is amazed at his own thoughts, and feels it is better to be alone than talk like the others.", "predicament": "A young man is startled by a sudden insight and decides his real thoughts are better kept from his crude companions."},
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{"chunk": 204, "story": 17, "summary": "He wanders into the poor labourers' quarter, which stirs memories of stories of old-world towns, and turns into a dark alley behind the animal sheds.", "predicament": "A young man with his head full of ideas wanders among poorer neighbours whose lives suddenly seem full of meaning."},
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{"chunk": 205, "story": 17, "summary": "Among the smells and sounds of the poor houses he feels detached from life; driven off by a dog, he stands in a vacant lot, raises his hands to the sky and mutters grand words.", "predicament": "A young man, briefly exalted, feels both apart from everyone around him and grander than ever before."},
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{"chunk": 206, "story": 17, "summary": "Feeling all people are his kin, he heads to the young woman, sure he is now too big to be used; the bartender has just been there, lost his nerve, and threatened to break both their bones.", "predicament": "A man who came to propose loses his nerve at the door and can only threaten the rival he fears."},
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{"chunk": 207, "story": 17, "summary": "Seeing her lover sitting miserably across the street, she happily goes out with the reporter to make him suffer, while the reporter swaggers and declares she must take him for a man.", "predicament": "A young woman uses an eager admirer to make the one she really wants jealous, while the admirer thinks he has won her."},
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{"chunk": 208, "story": 17, "summary": "On the hillside he is sure she is surrendering to him; she leans on him, looking past him into the dark as if waiting; he kneels beside her, and the bartender appears.", "predicament": "A young man sure of his conquest does not see that the woman with him is waiting for somebody else."},
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{"chunk": 209, "story": 17, "summary": "The bartender tosses him aside three times without hitting him, tells the woman she is no good but he wants her too much, and marches her away.", "predicament": "A young man is humiliated in front of a woman by a stronger rival who does not even bother to fight him."},
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{"chunk": 210, "story": 17, "summary": "He creeps home sick with self-hatred, listens in vain for the voice that inspired him, and runs from the poor street that now looks squalid and commonplace.", "predicament": "A young man whose moment of exaltation ended in humiliation finds that everything that inspired him now looks shabby."}
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