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

[Glenn Scheper]

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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