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JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5 3a4758172d story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3
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
2026-10-07 06:05:51 -04:00

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{"chunk": 226, "story": 19, "summary": "Two farm hands work together: a quiet, worn man of fifty with a sharp-tongued wife and many children, and a young son of the county's notorious old reprobate.", "predicament": "A worn-out older man and a wild young one work side by side, as unlike each other as two people can be."},
{"chunk": 227, "story": 19, "summary": "The young man's father died drunk, whipping his horses into an oncoming train, screaming with delight; the boys of the town secretly admired his foolish courage.", "predicament": "Young people told to despise a reckless man secretly admire him for refusing to live a humdrum life."},
{"chunk": 228, "story": 19, "summary": "The son is the wildest of three brothers, once stole and sold his father's boards and fought him in the street; he took the farm job to be near a young woman, and the town expects him to ruin her.", "predicament": "A young man with a bad reputation courts someone, and everyone is sure he will ruin her."},
{"chunk": 229, "story": 19, "summary": "Husking corn in the autumn beauty, the older man remembers how one afternoon's wandering with a girl trapped him in marriage, mutters that life tricked him, and the young man asks whether marriage is worth it.", "predicament": "A man who feels life tricked him into marriage is asked by a younger man whether settling down is worth it."},
{"chunk": 230, "story": 19, "summary": "The young man confesses he has got a girl in trouble and begs the older man to advise him: marry and be harnessed like a horse, or tell her to go to the devil.", "predicament": "A young man in trouble asks an older friend to tell him plainly whether to do the expected thing or walk away."},
{"chunk": 231, "story": 19, "summary": "Unable to give the answer everyone would approve, the older man walks off in tears; his wife calls him home, scolding, and he feels an urge to do something wild.", "predicament": "An older man knows the answer everyone expects him to give, and cannot bring himself to say it."},
{"chunk": 232, "story": 19, "summary": "Sent to town for groceries with three dollars, amid a crying child and his wife's scolding, he steps into the evening fields alive with beauty.", "predicament": "A man sent on a dull errand by a scolding spouse steps outside and is overwhelmed by the beauty he has no time for."},
{"chunk": 233, "story": 19, "summary": "He throws off his torn coat and runs across the fields shouting against his life; no promise was made, why should anyone pay, and he resolves to stop the young man before it is too late.", "predicament": "A man who gave up his freedom long ago suddenly rebels and races to stop a younger man making the same choice."},
{"chunk": 234, "story": 19, "summary": "Running, he remembers his abandoned dreams of going west to sea or a ranch, and calls his children accidents of life; he reaches the young man dressed up and smoking on the road.", "predicament": "A man remembers all the adventures he gave up for family, and wonders whether they were ever really his choice."},
{"chunk": 235, "story": 19, "summary": "He loses his nerve; the young man laughs that he has already decided to marry and wants children; the older man laughs too, recalls pleasant evenings with his children, and says whatever he said would have been a lie.", "predicament": "A man who rushed to urge a friend to flee commitment finds the friend has chosen it, and admits his advice was a lie."}
]