Franzen

[David Payne]

According to Amazon's "Look Inside" feature, "overpopulation" is listed 19 times (p. 109, 219, 220, 222, 293, 305, 309, 314, 319, 320, 321, 335, 360, 361, 465, 475, 491, 494, 508).
 
Google books, however, found "overpopulation" 18 times. Compared to Amazon's search, it did not find it on p. 361 or 491 -- but it did find it on p. 365.
 
So I guess that's a total of 20, although this kind of search does not always catch iterations like "overpopulation's," "overpopulated," "overpopulate" or instances where the word is split on a linebreak, like:
 
...over-<line break>
population...

 



Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:18:01 -0700
Subject: Franzen
From: igrlivingston at gmail.com
To: pynchon-l at waste.org

Is anybody aware of a site similar to the liste for Franzen? I'm about to give Freedom a chance and my sweetheart, who read the book a couple years ago wants a count of the mentions of overpopulation in the text. I'm inclined to think someone likely would already have done that from what little I know of the book.

-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
 		 	   		  
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