Re: making a concordance: some answers


Subject: Re: making a concordance: some answers
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2000 - 12:46:14 EST


At 12:30 PM -0500 on 3/26/2000, you wrote:

> If there's enough interest and know-how among us collectively to realisticly
> take on such a project it couldn't hurt to ask for permission to do it. Is
> Salinger really *that* protective and private about his work?

Yes. Even more than that.

Just the process of making such an object would be mind-boggling
(though certainly it's been done by scholars long before there were
computers): enter all the Salinger texts into machine-readable form,
then use a concordance-generating program to make an index of all
words and what texts they go with.

I have a feeling that just the "entering into a computer" stage would
get a faster rejection than a writer gets when sending a story to The
New Yorker!

--tim
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