Distant Reading Project1














I chose "The Memoir of Fanny Hill."


Prediction





This database is absolutely phenomenal! I was very impressed with the rapidity with which it worked to handle a rather huge task.  I entered my words in their thousands, inside the box,  and relaxed watching the magic happens right before my own eyes. Anyway, I think my predictions weren't way off track. I talked about love, which I think is basically the same as pleasure, and this particular word seems to standout in this words-graph.  I talked about sex, and prostitution-- it turned out, the baseline of the book is actually about sex for money. And, Fanny did appeared insecured.



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