some computers have too much time on their hands

[ellenkushner]

Did you know that there are now concordances on amazon.com??!

I mean, as in: "These are the 100 most frequently-used words in this book" ??!

You can look them all up for The Fall of the Kings - you can also learn that the book has 157,212 words (though they seem to be counting the running heads as words, so subtract about 1,000), averaging 12.5 words/sentence, and can be read by someone with an 8th grade education (oh, ha! and double-ha! Many of the online reviews imply that even people with college degrees couldn't actually figure out what's going on in it) - And then you can click on an individual word and see all the actual sentences in the text it appears in - with page references!

But you already knew that, didn't you?

OK, but did you know it can also be made into a lovely little poem? It begins:

again arlen asked basil blake book
boy came campion city cloud
come crabbe days delia doctor door down ellen
even eyes face fall finn fremont friends
galing get go godwin
going good
great hair hand head henry himself

- or maybe you can just fill in the words in between these most-common ones, and write your own damn version of the novel, if you don't like the way we did it (fuming about stoopid review, even though I really do know better).

Swordspoint rates almost the same for Readability and Complexity - including words/sentence! - which will please Delia, since she was consciously trying to copy my style.

In its concordance, I particularly like the sequence:

get go going good got halliday

- kinda sums it all up, doesn't it?

It makes me sad that Thomas the Rhymer has no concordance.

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[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

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Coolness!