TPPM _The Gift_: Less hyphens, Word count per: "redblk -q"

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 3 09:02:03 CDT 2004


http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/gift.html

You know, sometimes you can really speed your
intake of big texts by only reading each unique
word once, as least to determine if there were
no words of interest throughout the whole text.

     27 the
     15 of
     11 is
      9 in
      9 a
      8 to
      8 that
      7 and
      5 warlock
      5 as
      3 with
      3 we
      3 us
      3 our
      3 its
      3 into
      3 image
      3 his
      3 he
      3 can
      2 where
      2 up
      2 tombstone
      2 one
      2 oakley
      2 not
      2 never
      2 it
      2 hero
      2 has
      2 for
      2 but
      2 be
      2 at
      2 are
      2 american
      1 wyatt
      1 wrapper
      1 working
      1 wobblies
      1 wild
      1 who
      1 what
      1 west
      1 ways
      1 voices
      1 virtues
      1 violence
      1 viking
      1 very
      1 transmogrified
      1 town's
      1 town
      1 toss
      1 too
      1 those
      1 there
      1 takes
      1 summoned
      1 struggling
      1 still
      1 some
      1 society
      1 snuffed
      1 snap
      1 shot
      1 set
      1 sensitivity
      1 s       (Note: came from "1880's")
      1 restored
      1 remind
      1 rebellion
      1 purity
      1 public
      1 proto
      1 private
      1 precarious
      1 power
      1 political
      1 piece
      1 personal
      1 partly
      1 paper
      1 own
      1 over
      1 out
      1 order
      1 opposite
      1 only
      1 on
      1 ok
      1 novels
      1 novel
      1 nervous
      1 need
      1 national
      1 nation
      1 named
      1 myth
      1 must
      1 mortal
      1 mob
      1 mines
      1 many
      1 makes
      1 magazines
      1 live
      1 like
      1 law
      1 last
      1 land
      1 joust
      1 itself
      1 inescapable
      1 humanity
      1 how
      1 horror
      1 him
      1 have
      1 hall's
      1 hall
      1 gunfighting
      1 gunfighter
      1 grand
      1 gang
      1 full
      1 from
      1 frail
      1 fluttering
      1 flesh
      1 flaw
      1 fine
      1 finds
      1 feel
      1 far
      1 fall
      1 face
      1 expressly
      1 exist
      1 evils
      1 epic
      1 entire
      1 embodied
      1 embattled
      1 easily
      1 earps
      1 earp
      1 during
      1 dry
      1 drive
      1 different
      1 desert
      1 deep
      1 day
      1 crises
      1 corral
      1 corpse
      1 control
      1 confrontation
      1 committee
      1 color
      1 collective
      1 clanton
      1 citizens
      1 canyon
      1 cannot
      1 candy
      1 camelot
      1 called
      1 by
      1 brightly
      1 blown
      1 blooded
      1 blaisdell's
      1 blaisdell
      1 best
      1 believes
      1 behind
      1 before
      1 because
      1 back
      1 away
      1 awareness
      1 assumptions
      1 assimilated
      1 arthurian
      1 arizona
      1 area
      1 aplomb
      1 also
      1 allowed
      1 all
      1 agonized
      1 abysses
      1 abyss

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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