"almost" ?

[bekah]

Has anyone done a phrase count of  "almost as if,"  or just the word, 
"almost"  ?    I think it occurs on 'almost' every page.    What does 
this mean?   Nothing is as it seems but it all connects?


Bekah



At 8:41 AM -0700 10/13/07, Mark Kohut wrote:
>Foax:
>
>I am doing a crawling-thru the text of Pynchon's 
>works...."annotating" the earlier ones as carefully as AtD is being 
>annotated...as Shakespeare, Austen, Sherlock Holmes, even The Cat in 
>the Hat is---[check out; fascinating].....
>
>I am doing it on the pynchon wiki.
>