Odd question for y'all...

[Martha Rooster-Singh]

speaking of articles and Bluebeards and Castles made of counted words.



http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/17/arts.highereducation


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Martha Rooster-Singh <
martharoostersingh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.....
>>>
>>>
>>>   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.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/2012/03/06/the-average-book-has-64500-words/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>> > -
>>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>> -
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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