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": 236, "story": 20, "summary": "A boy's tough little grandmother, who left the village as a girl and travelled widely, is ground down by deaths and debts in the city and scrubs floors with twisted hands, living with him above a junk shop.", "predicament": "A capable old woman who has lost almost everyone works herself to the bone to keep a grandchild fed."},
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{"chunk": 237, "story": 20, "summary": "Finding a purse with thirty-seven dollars, she insists they flee that very night to her childhood village, and on the train she talks like a delighted girl.", "predicament": "An old woman who stumbles on a little money seizes the chance to flee back to the home of her childhood at once."},
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{"chunk": 238, "story": 20, "summary": "The village has grown into a town she does not recognise; she fears it will be hard for the boy, but she finds kitchen work and he a stable job with the banker's family, slipping in unnoticed.", "predicament": "An old woman returning home finds it grown into a place she no longer knows, and must find work for herself and a grandchild."},
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{"chunk": 239, "story": 20, "summary": "Though raised among gangs and brothels, the gentle boy stood in the shadow of life, loved by all and untouched; once, with his grandmother sick and no food, he stole from a shop's till.", "predicament": "A gentle youth who has seen everything ugly stays untouched by it, until hunger at home drives him to steal once."},
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{"chunk": 240, "story": 20, "summary": "Caught, he is glad to be ashamed because it teaches him things; in the new town he loses his stable job by forgetting his errands to stand listening among idle men.", "predicament": "A dreamy youth keeps losing his place because he forgets his duties while quietly watching other people."},
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{"chunk": 241, "story": 20, "summary": "He rents a room in an old lawyer's office; his grandmother visits, scrubs the place, and smokes a pipe with him, saying she will die when he is ready to die.", "predicament": "A grandparent and grandchild who have only each other share quiet evenings, the old one vowing never to leave."},
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{"chunk": 242, "story": 20, "summary": "Doing odd jobs and loafing contentedly in cast-off coats, he is happy with little things, like sitting an hour to breathe the smell of roasting coffee; one night he decides he needs to get drunk.", "predicament": "A contented young man who asks almost nothing from life decides, for once, he must do something out of character."},
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{"chunk": 243, "story": 20, "summary": "Sickened by an early brush with a prostitute, he had put sex out of his life; after two years in town, seeing youth courting everywhere, he falls in love with his former employer's daughter.", "predicament": "A young man who shut desire out of his life after an ugly experience finds himself falling in love anyway."},
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{"chunk": 244, "story": 20, "summary": "He lets himself think of her but keeps his thoughts pure; on a stirring spring night he walks the streets comparing her to a flame and a wind, himself to a leafless tree and a beached boat.", "predicament": "A young man in love from afar keeps his feelings to himself and pours them into private words on a spring night."},
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{"chunk": 245, "story": 20, "summary": "Bored by the men's talk, he buys whiskey, drinks alone on a bank outside town, and remembers mornings, rain in the barn, and the night train with his grandmother.", "predicament": "A young man slips away from company to drink alone for the first time, flooded with old memories."},
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{"chunk": 246, "story": 20, "summary": "Sick and reeling, he comes back to town; the young reporter takes him in, and when he babbles that he made love to the banker's daughter by the sea, the reporter angrily orders him to stop.", "predicament": "A young man who secretly loves someone flares up when another admirer speaks of her in a way he cannot bear."},
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{"chunk": 247, "story": 20, "summary": "They sit together for hours; the drunk boy says it taught him something, and the reporter feels drawn to him as never before, but scolds again when she is mentioned.", "predicament": "Two young rivals for the same person are thrown together for a night and feel an unexpected closeness."},
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{"chunk": 248, "story": 20, "summary": "He explains softly that he was happy and wanted to suffer, as everyone does, without hurting anyone else, and that getting drunk was like making love and taught him things.", "predicament": "A gentle young man tries to explain that he hurt himself on purpose so as to learn what others know, without harming anyone."}
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