Odd question for y'all...

[Martha Rooster-Singh]

Where would be without academics? And Bean Counters and...cut and paste
word count?
How many verbs does P use in that little novel? Does he use more verbs now
than he did when he was younger? How about them articles? There's a
dissertation in that one, somewhere...


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 46,812 words
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Just reminding: Pynchon hisself calls it a short story marketed as a
>> novel...and usu @40,000 words plus or less
>> is called a novella.....
>>
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>>   On Sunday, January 5, 2014 4:22 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>  I'm no academic, but Google tells me the answer is 46,573.
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>> http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/2012/03/06/the-average-book-has-64500-words/
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>> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Do any of the academics on this list have any idea about how many
>> > WORDS are in Crying of Lot 49? The question has come up for a young
>> > professor friend of mine and he knows I'm a fan, and asked me, and so
>> > I pose the question to y'all. I don't currently have a copy, otherwise
>> > I'd do a rough estimate for him myself.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance!
>> > Mark T. / Jerky LeBoeuf
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>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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