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": 249, "story": 21, "summary": "The narrator describes the worn, dim stairway to the doctor's barn-like office, a hallway full of a store's discarded rubbish, and a table heaped with books, bottles and a friend's apples.", "predicament": "A shabby, forgotten place at the top of worn stairs is the one spot where certain lonely people feel at home."},
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{"chunk": 250, "story": 21, "summary": "Years before, the sick hotel keeper's wife sometimes climbed to the awkward middle-aged doctor's office, ostensibly about her health, but they talked mostly of their two lives.", "predicament": "A worn-out wife visits someone on the pretext of a practical errand, but really to talk about her life."},
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{"chunk": 251, "story": 21, "summary": "They were alike inside; the doctor later told his young wife that he had invented private gods to pray to, and found that this woman worshipped the same ones.", "predicament": "Two lonely people discover they share the same private hopes, and are glad simply not to be alone in them."},
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{"chunk": 252, "story": 21, "summary": "In his presence she talks more freely each time and leaves renewed, but alone in her room she lets her dinner go cold, remembering a lover who cried 'You dear!' over and over.", "predicament": "A woman comes away from her one true friend feeling young again, then sinks back alone into memories of lost chances."},
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{"chunk": 253, "story": 21, "summary": "She weeps over the doctor's saying that love cannot be made definite; she recalls her motherless girlhood with a sick father who could never say what he wanted to her.", "predicament": "A daughter grows up with a parent who wants to speak to her about her life and only ever complains about his own."},
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{"chunk": 254, "story": 21, "summary": "As a girl she had many lovers, always seeking some hidden wonder and the true word; she married the hotel clerk because he was at hand, thinking marriage itself must hold some secret.", "predicament": "A restless young woman marries whoever is at hand, believing marriage itself will give her life the meaning she seeks."},
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{"chunk": 255, "story": 21, "summary": "On the eve of her marriage her dying father begs her not to marry anyone in town and gives her eight hundred dollars hidden in a box, making her promise never to tell her husband.", "predicament": "A dying parent gives a child secret savings as a way out, begging her not to throw her life away where she is."},
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{"chunk": 256, "story": 21, "summary": "At forty-one, in the doctor's office, she says bitterly that she wanted marriage, not the man, and was afraid of her reputation; as she talks the doctor, falling in love, sees her grow young.", "predicament": "A tired woman pours out the story of her wasted life to the one person who listens, and he begins to love her."},
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{"chunk": 257, "story": 21, "summary": "She tells of a drive alone months after marrying, when her husband, smelling of paint, was fixing up the hotel and wanted money she could not bring herself to tell him about.", "predicament": "A young wife holds a secret that could help her spouse, and cannot bring herself to share it because she does not love him."},
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{"chunk": 258, "story": 21, "summary": "She whipped the pony through a rainstorm, wanting to get out of town, marriage and her own body, then ran on foot into the dark until she fell.", "predicament": "A young wife trapped in her new life flees wildly into a storm, wanting to escape everything and find something."},
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{"chunk": 259, "story": 21, "summary": "She walks the office with a girlish swing and kneels by him; he takes her in his arms, kisses her and murmurs 'You lovely dear', seeing in her the young girl she once was.", "predicament": "Two lonely friends, after years of talk, suddenly reach for each other, both seeing the young person the other once was."},
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{"chunk": 260, "story": 21, "summary": "A clerk tramping up the stairs to dump a box breaks the moment; she leaves, trembling, and spends her last months longing for death as a lover.", "predicament": "A moment of connection two lonely people waited years for is broken by a trivial noise, and never comes again."},
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{"chunk": 261, "story": 21, "summary": "Struck down before she can tell her son about the money, she begs death for another hour; when she dies, the son feels only emptiness and annoyance that he must postpone seeing a girl.", "predicament": "A young man hears of a parent's death and feels mostly annoyance that it spoils his plans for the evening."},
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{"chunk": 262, "story": 21, "summary": "For days she lay paralysed, her eyes pleading to say something about her son's future; her husband weeps; the doctor, sitting by the body, leaves awkwardly when the son comes in.", "predicament": "A dying mother struggles for days to tell her son something about his future, and dies unable to speak."},
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{"chunk": 263, "story": 21, "summary": "Sitting by the body, the son decides to leave town for the city, daydreams of the girl's lips, then is overwhelmed with shame and weeps.", "predicament": "A young man keeping vigil by a dead parent catches himself thinking only of his own future and desires, and is ashamed."},
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{"chunk": 264, "story": 21, "summary": "Seized by the fancy that someone young and lovely lies under the sheet, he cannot bring himself to lift it, flees, sobs that his mother is dead, and murmurs 'the lovely dear'.", "predicament": "A son who never really knew his mother senses, too late, the young woman she once was."},
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{"chunk": 265, "story": 21, "summary": "The eight hundred dollars meant to give the son his start in the city lies hidden behind the plaster at the foot of her bed, where she hid it a week after her marriage.", "predicament": "The secret savings a mother kept for years as her way out lie hidden, and the child they were meant for never knows."},
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{"chunk": 266, "story": 22, "summary": "The county fair fills the town with dusty crowds; the young reporter hides in a stairway watching faces, impatient, wondering whether the girl will stay with another man all day.", "predicament": "A restless young man waits in the crowd for a chance to see one particular person, fearing he has waited for nothing."}
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