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": 267, "story": 22, "summary": "About to leave for the city, the young man has felt lonely all day in the fair crowds, suddenly old and set apart, wanting someone to understand what came over him after his mother's death.", "predicament": "A young man about to leave home feels suddenly older than his years, and wants one person to understand the change."},
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{"chunk": 268, "story": 22, "summary": "The narrator describes the moment a boy first looks back on life, sees himself as a leaf blown through his town among countless lives, and wants above all to be understood by someone.", "predicament": "A young person glimpses for the first time how small and uncertain their life is, and longs to be understood."},
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{"chunk": 269, "story": 22, "summary": "His mind turns to the banker's daughter; once he boasted to her on a country road, and now he wants to show her the change he feels in himself.", "predicament": "A young man who once boasted to impress someone now wants to show her the real change he feels in himself."},
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{"chunk": 270, "story": 22, "summary": "Home from college for the fair, she spends the day showing off a pompous instructor who begins to think of her money, while she wants to get rid of him and walk with the reporter again.", "predicament": "A young woman back from the wider world parades an impressive escort for show while wishing she were with someone else."},
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{"chunk": 271, "story": 22, "summary": "Their earlier summer walk had been awkward: he boasted he would be the biggest man in town, told her to be different from other women, and could only say at her gate that he had thought she would marry his friend.", "predicament": "A tongue-tied young man tries to impress the girl he likes with boasts, and ends the evening saying nothing he meant."},
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{"chunk": 272, "story": 22, "summary": "Ashamed of that evening, he finds the jostling fair crowd unbearable and stalks off, telling himself he does not care if she stays with the other man.", "predicament": "A proud young man, ashamed of how he once behaved, pretends not to care that the person he wants is with someone else."},
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{"chunk": 273, "story": 22, "summary": "Near tears, he is angered by a horseman's boasting, tears his trousers on a barrel nail, and resolves to walk right into her house.", "predicament": "A dejected young man, irritated by everyone's bragging, resolves to go straight to the person he wants to see."},
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{"chunk": 274, "story": 22, "summary": "On her veranda the instructor puts on city airs and patronises the town; her mother says no one there is fit for her daughter; the girl slips inside.", "predicament": "A young woman is suffocated by her parent's snobbery and a pompous visitor's airs, and slips away."},
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{"chunk": 275, "story": 22, "summary": "She runs out calling his name and meets him coming the other way; they take hands and climb to the empty fairground grandstand above the town.", "predicament": "Two young people each running away from the crowd to find the other meet halfway, and hardly know what to say."},
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{"chunk": 276, "story": 22, "summary": "The narrator describes the empty fairground at night, full of the ghosts of the day's living crowds, where one feels both life's meaninglessness and an intense love of it.", "predicament": "Alone in a place just emptied of crowds, a person feels both how meaningless life is and how much he loves it."},
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{"chunk": 277, "story": 22, "summary": "Sitting close in the dark, he feels his insignificance and, through her, a new reverence for the town's people; they hold each other, each thinking: here is this other.", "predicament": "Two lonely young people sit close in silence and feel, for once, truly understood without a word being said."},
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{"chunk": 278, "story": 22, "summary": "They kiss but draw back from it; grown shy with mutual respect, they drop into rough play like young animals on the way down the hill.", "predicament": "Two young people reach the edge of romance and choose respect instead, easing the tension with play."},
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{"chunk": 279, "story": 22, "summary": "She trips him and he rolls down the hill laughing; at the bottom she takes his arm in dignified silence; both have got from the evening the thing they needed.", "predicament": "A silent evening between two young people gives each what they needed, though neither could explain it."}
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