Franzen

[Ian Livingston]

Well, it's already a good day. Woke up to the first rain since--was it May?
April?--and now I've learned something useful about Amazon. This is the
sort of day tailor made for reading a book one has been putting off for a
while.


On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:32 AM, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  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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