A recent study * indicates that even given a very small amount of words, a general reader can recognize a genre. The abstract declares that an experiment testing the ability of readers to recognize the genre of a work (fiction versus history) with only 5 to 15 words of randomly selected gave a high degree of accuracy - 79.2% correct responses at 5 words. This suggest that readers , for example - suggests that recognize at the micro-level of text and independent of the subject's educational level, but dependent on the genre itself.
This may also explain that the explosion of Lovecraft's fiction upon pulp readers sensibilities was appropriately dramatic as we've always realized.
I selected a few arbitrary texts and selected the first 10 words of the story:
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day … The Fall of the House of Usher, Poe
Whether the dreams brought on the fever or the fever … Dreams in the Witchhouse, Lovecraft
When the time for his examination drew near Malcolm Malcolmson … The Judge's House, Stoker
Still lying-to amid enormous ice fields. The one which stretches … Captain of the Pole Star, Doyle
The Rev. Mr. Jennings is tall and thin. He is … Green Tea, LeFanu
In each case, these arbitrary passages can give a feel for the individual author. Poe is poetic and bleak, Lovecraft speaks of dreams, Stoker tends to be a bit drudgy, Doyle always the adventure flavor, and LeFanu about the person's story. But you, dear blog reader, try it too! Select some arbitrary long and short passages from your favorite modern or ancient author and see how many words it takes to cement your opinion, or reinforce your opinion of that writer.
* 1994 Elsevier Science "Genre recognition of history and fiction" Malcolm Hayward,
Department of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705, USA.
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
More on words, words, words ...
As we've seen, the English language has certain common words that all writers must use and they use them often. We expect them, and our subconscious looks for them as we learn to read.
I selected another arbitrary (and brief) short story, Arthur Conan Doyle's "Horror of the Heights". The top twenty words for Doyle are: (394, the); (223, of); (209, and); (181, I); (177, a); (142, to); (140, was); (122, it); (113, in); (98, That); (94, my); (71, as); (56, with); (51, but); (49, which); (48, is); (47, me); (45, had); (44, at); (43, for). These are virtually identical to Lovecraft's story, and would be so for most any other work of fiction.
It's not necessarily the use of common words, but a writer's choices of uncommon words, and the selective exclusion (if any) of common words we notice.
Statistically, Doyle uses only one instance of a word [that is the single use of one word rather than the use multiple times] 16.9% of the time in this story (1138 of 6779 words). This is far less than Lovecraft's Dagon 29.7% (661 unique words out of 2239 words).
Obviously much work would have to be done, but it seems that Lovecraft did not repeat himself often except for effect. This may give rise to the impression that Lovecraft's fiction was erudite, especially as he was quickly known for use of archaic words, technical terms, ad hoc made up words, and unusual adjectives or adverbs (like cyclopean).
I selected another arbitrary (and brief) short story, Arthur Conan Doyle's "Horror of the Heights". The top twenty words for Doyle are: (394, the); (223, of); (209, and); (181, I); (177, a); (142, to); (140, was); (122, it); (113, in); (98, That); (94, my); (71, as); (56, with); (51, but); (49, which); (48, is); (47, me); (45, had); (44, at); (43, for). These are virtually identical to Lovecraft's story, and would be so for most any other work of fiction.
It's not necessarily the use of common words, but a writer's choices of uncommon words, and the selective exclusion (if any) of common words we notice.
Statistically, Doyle uses only one instance of a word [that is the single use of one word rather than the use multiple times] 16.9% of the time in this story (1138 of 6779 words). This is far less than Lovecraft's Dagon 29.7% (661 unique words out of 2239 words).
Obviously much work would have to be done, but it seems that Lovecraft did not repeat himself often except for effect. This may give rise to the impression that Lovecraft's fiction was erudite, especially as he was quickly known for use of archaic words, technical terms, ad hoc made up words, and unusual adjectives or adverbs (like cyclopean).
Dagon: Lovecraft's words
As I showed yesterday, I took Dagon and parsed it. This statistical evisceration of his story shows us a few things that make Lovecraft Lovecraftian. Of its 2231 words, there are 661 words that are used only once in Dagon! About 29.7%.
There is an underlying technical presence. Lovecraft was deeply scientific although sometimes that was a bit superficial. He was awed by quantum mechanics, but he could not do quantum mechanics. He thrilled to science, but unlike a Heinlein, de Camp, or Asimov he did not do science or engineering. Still we see not just astronomical terms but words such as 'anthropologist', 'ethnologist', 'hieroglyphics', and 'archaeologist's'. This gives it a flavor of very early scientifiction.
Part of what makes Lovecraft Lovecraftian is its subliminal effect. Somewhere in his early childhood the deep and dark made a great impact upon him. I suspect it was Grandma Rhoby's death and maybe seeing that yawning burial plot opened. In any event, you can't pick apart a Lovecraft story without seeing words like these (in Dagon): (moon, 8), (night,5), (beneath, 4), (black, 4), (down, 4), (bottom, 2), (chasm, 2), (dark, 2), (deep, deeps, 2), (depths, 1), (descent, 1), (fathomless, 1), (grotto, 1), (abyss, 1), (canyon,1), (inky,1), (valley,1), (stars,1). Yes, the story is about the sea, but read every story with a watchful eye and you'll see deepness and darkness as an integral part.
Lovecraft shows a strong architectural scheme. I can't name all the words that he uses, but here are a few that show his mental bearings on Euclidean and architectural viewpoints: plain, slope, surface, vast, ascend, ascent, floor, mound, rise, position.
Be especially watchful for the word "window" as it often conveys a pivotal moment in the plot, and a philosophical underpinning of Lovecraft's works.
In Dagon, he seemed to have a penchant for 'im/n' words: illumine, imaginary, imagination, imagine, imagined, immeasurable, immense, immensity, impression, impulse, indistinct, infested, inky, innumerable, inquiries, inscriptions, insist.
Nameless, dream, and octopi appear in this early work, too, laying the seeds for the Call of Cthulhu later – as well as many other Lovecraftian terrors.
Of course we see common Lovecraftian words: stupendous, enormous, gibbous, hideous, contemptuous, curious, delirious, monotonous, prodigious.
Finally, here are all the words that appear only once in Lovecraft's story.
able, absolute, abyss, act, adrift, again, against, ahead, aimlessly, air, altogether, American, amidst, amused, amusement, analyse, ancestor, anthropologist, anything, appreciable, aquatic, archaeologist's, are, arms, array, ascending, assured, astonished, attained, awake, awakened, Awestruck, back, background, badly, barren, bas, bear, became, bed, beginning, below, bestowed, billows, blazing, blue, boldly, books, born, bowed, broad, brooding, brought, bulging, bulk, Bulwer, came, canyon, captain, captors, captured, carcasses, celebrated, change, channel, chaos, characters, chilled, chiselled, churning, cliff, climb, climbed, closely, closer, cloudless, clutches, coastline, cold, come, competent, completely, completeness, conception, concerned, conscious, consideration, consisting, containing, contemptuous, continuous, contour, conventional, conventionalised, convey, core, cost, crawled, crawling, crest, crew, crude, cruelty, crustaceans, curious, Curiously, Cyclopean, Dagon, damnably, dare, daring, darkness, darted, Dazed, dead, deal, death, decaying, decided, declivity, decomposing, deem, deep, deeps, definitely, degenerate, degradation, delight, delirious, delirium, depict, depths, descendant, descent, describable, desert, despair, detail, details, detect, determined, deterred, detestable, difficulty, directions, discipline, discover, disporting, distinct, Do, does, door, Dore, doubt, drag, drawn, dreams, drifted, drop, due, dwell, ears, ease, eastern, easy, edge, eels, either, elevation, eminence, encamped, endurable, endure, energy, envy, equator, eras, ere, especially, espied, eternal, ethnologist, evening, evil, examined, excited, exhausted, expanse, experienced, explain, exposing, express, extended, extent, eyes, faces, fact, faint, faintest, fair, fairly, fairness, fantastically, fathomless, fear, features, fell, fellow, fever, few, filled, finally, find, Fish-God, fishing, five, flabby, floundering, flowed, following, food, footholds, forces, forged, forgetfulness, fourth, fowl, Francisco, frantic, freak, free, frequented, frightened, full, fully, gained, garret, gave, gazing, gentler, glare, glassy, gleamed, glimpse, glow, goal, God, gods, good, gradual, granite, graver, greater, Grotesque, grotesqueness, grotto, ground, grounded, grow, guided, habitable, half, hand, hands, happened, hastily, having, he, head, hear, heard, hearing, heavens, heaving, hellish, hemmed, hidden, hideously, hideousness, hieroglyphics, high, hill, him, himself, hold, homage, homogeneity, hope, hopeless, hopelessly, horrified, hospital, hours, how, however, human, Hun, idea, idols, if, illumine, imaginary, imagination, imagine, imagined, immeasurable, immense, immensity, impression, impulse, indistinct, infested, information, inky, innumerable, inquiries, inscriptions, insist, island, kept, killing, known, lain, landscape, lapping, larger, later, laughed, Ledges, legend, legitimate, length, liberal, life, light, likely, likenesses, lips, living, loathsome, longer, longitude, looked, lumbering, mad, maddening, magnitude, managed, mankind, mark, marsh, massive, measured, mental, mid, millions, mind, mire, modern, molluscs, monolithic, monotonous, monotony, monster, moods, morning, moved, mud, musing, nameless, nasty, nauseating, naval, navigator, Neanderthal, nearer, necessary, neither, new, newly, next, nightmares, obelisks, observed, obviously, octopi, oddly, odour, Often, opposite, oppressed, outcroppings, outline, over, overland, own, packet, pages, pandemonium, Paradise, parching, part, parts, passing, past, paying, peals, peculiar, peering, penetrated, Penniless, perceived, perceiving, perform, perished, perpendicular, perspiration, phantasm, Philistine, picked, Picking, pictorial, piece, Piltdown, pit, Plainly, pleasant, Poe, Polyphemus, portion, possible, preparatory, press, prey, primitive, prisoners, prize, prodigious, progressed, proportion, protruding, provisions, puny, pure, purposes, putrid, quality, queer, questions, raider, ran, rate, raving, rays, reach, reached, read, realise, reality, realized, realms, recall, recesses, recollections, reeking, reflecting, reflections, regarding, region, regions, relief, reliefs, remarked, remember, remembrance, reminiscences, remnants, reply, rescue, rescuers, revealed, rim, rock, rocks, rotting, San, sang, sat, Satan's, save, say, scaly, scant, scarcely, scenery, scenic, scientist's, scorching, scrambled, scrawled, scrutiny, sculptures, seafaring, search, seen, sensation, sensations, set, setting, shade, shadow, shadows, shaped, sharper, shockingly, shone, shores, short, should, shrine, shuddering, silence, silent, sing, singular, sinister, sink, slave, slavery, sleep, slid, slime, slippery, slopes, slumber, small, soaked, soared, solitude, somewhat, sort, sought, sounds, source, south, speak, spellbound, squalid, stars, started, steadily, steeply, steeps, stickiness, still, stillness, storm, street, stricken, stupendous, Stygian, subjects, submarine, sucked, suddenly, sufficiently, summit, sunk, sunset, supercargo, supply, supposed, surcease, surging, symbols, system, taken, talons, terror, theory, third, thither, thrill, thrown, thunder, tones, tonight, torture, toward, towering, trace, transformation, transient, travel, travelled, travelling, treated, tried, troubled, turned, unable, uncounted, undulations, unending, unfashioned, unfathomable, universal, unlike, unprecedented, unutterable, unwise, Urged, us, utters, vague, vaguely, vanished, vastness, vent, vessel, victim, view, visible, vision, visions, vivid, vividly, volcanic, waiting, walk, washed, watery, wavelets, waves, weakling, weary, weather, webbed, weirdly, went, westward, whale, whales, where, while, whitely, wide, wild, wildest, winding, within, wonder, work, workmanship, worship, worshipping, written, yards, yawned, years, young, zenith.
There is an underlying technical presence. Lovecraft was deeply scientific although sometimes that was a bit superficial. He was awed by quantum mechanics, but he could not do quantum mechanics. He thrilled to science, but unlike a Heinlein, de Camp, or Asimov he did not do science or engineering. Still we see not just astronomical terms but words such as 'anthropologist', 'ethnologist', 'hieroglyphics', and 'archaeologist's'. This gives it a flavor of very early scientifiction.
Part of what makes Lovecraft Lovecraftian is its subliminal effect. Somewhere in his early childhood the deep and dark made a great impact upon him. I suspect it was Grandma Rhoby's death and maybe seeing that yawning burial plot opened. In any event, you can't pick apart a Lovecraft story without seeing words like these (in Dagon): (moon, 8), (night,5), (beneath, 4), (black, 4), (down, 4), (bottom, 2), (chasm, 2), (dark, 2), (deep, deeps, 2), (depths, 1), (descent, 1), (fathomless, 1), (grotto, 1), (abyss, 1), (canyon,1), (inky,1), (valley,1), (stars,1). Yes, the story is about the sea, but read every story with a watchful eye and you'll see deepness and darkness as an integral part.
Lovecraft shows a strong architectural scheme. I can't name all the words that he uses, but here are a few that show his mental bearings on Euclidean and architectural viewpoints: plain, slope, surface, vast, ascend, ascent, floor, mound, rise, position.
Be especially watchful for the word "window" as it often conveys a pivotal moment in the plot, and a philosophical underpinning of Lovecraft's works.
In Dagon, he seemed to have a penchant for 'im/n' words: illumine, imaginary, imagination, imagine, imagined, immeasurable, immense, immensity, impression, impulse, indistinct, infested, inky, innumerable, inquiries, inscriptions, insist.
Nameless, dream, and octopi appear in this early work, too, laying the seeds for the Call of Cthulhu later – as well as many other Lovecraftian terrors.
Of course we see common Lovecraftian words: stupendous, enormous, gibbous, hideous, contemptuous, curious, delirious, monotonous, prodigious.
Finally, here are all the words that appear only once in Lovecraft's story.
able, absolute, abyss, act, adrift, again, against, ahead, aimlessly, air, altogether, American, amidst, amused, amusement, analyse, ancestor, anthropologist, anything, appreciable, aquatic, archaeologist's, are, arms, array, ascending, assured, astonished, attained, awake, awakened, Awestruck, back, background, badly, barren, bas, bear, became, bed, beginning, below, bestowed, billows, blazing, blue, boldly, books, born, bowed, broad, brooding, brought, bulging, bulk, Bulwer, came, canyon, captain, captors, captured, carcasses, celebrated, change, channel, chaos, characters, chilled, chiselled, churning, cliff, climb, climbed, closely, closer, cloudless, clutches, coastline, cold, come, competent, completely, completeness, conception, concerned, conscious, consideration, consisting, containing, contemptuous, continuous, contour, conventional, conventionalised, convey, core, cost, crawled, crawling, crest, crew, crude, cruelty, crustaceans, curious, Curiously, Cyclopean, Dagon, damnably, dare, daring, darkness, darted, Dazed, dead, deal, death, decaying, decided, declivity, decomposing, deem, deep, deeps, definitely, degenerate, degradation, delight, delirious, delirium, depict, depths, descendant, descent, describable, desert, despair, detail, details, detect, determined, deterred, detestable, difficulty, directions, discipline, discover, disporting, distinct, Do, does, door, Dore, doubt, drag, drawn, dreams, drifted, drop, due, dwell, ears, ease, eastern, easy, edge, eels, either, elevation, eminence, encamped, endurable, endure, energy, envy, equator, eras, ere, especially, espied, eternal, ethnologist, evening, evil, examined, excited, exhausted, expanse, experienced, explain, exposing, express, extended, extent, eyes, faces, fact, faint, faintest, fair, fairly, fairness, fantastically, fathomless, fear, features, fell, fellow, fever, few, filled, finally, find, Fish-God, fishing, five, flabby, floundering, flowed, following, food, footholds, forces, forged, forgetfulness, fourth, fowl, Francisco, frantic, freak, free, frequented, frightened, full, fully, gained, garret, gave, gazing, gentler, glare, glassy, gleamed, glimpse, glow, goal, God, gods, good, gradual, granite, graver, greater, Grotesque, grotesqueness, grotto, ground, grounded, grow, guided, habitable, half, hand, hands, happened, hastily, having, he, head, hear, heard, hearing, heavens, heaving, hellish, hemmed, hidden, hideously, hideousness, hieroglyphics, high, hill, him, himself, hold, homage, homogeneity, hope, hopeless, hopelessly, horrified, hospital, hours, how, however, human, Hun, idea, idols, if, illumine, imaginary, imagination, imagine, imagined, immeasurable, immense, immensity, impression, impulse, indistinct, infested, information, inky, innumerable, inquiries, inscriptions, insist, island, kept, killing, known, lain, landscape, lapping, larger, later, laughed, Ledges, legend, legitimate, length, liberal, life, light, likely, likenesses, lips, living, loathsome, longer, longitude, looked, lumbering, mad, maddening, magnitude, managed, mankind, mark, marsh, massive, measured, mental, mid, millions, mind, mire, modern, molluscs, monolithic, monotonous, monotony, monster, moods, morning, moved, mud, musing, nameless, nasty, nauseating, naval, navigator, Neanderthal, nearer, necessary, neither, new, newly, next, nightmares, obelisks, observed, obviously, octopi, oddly, odour, Often, opposite, oppressed, outcroppings, outline, over, overland, own, packet, pages, pandemonium, Paradise, parching, part, parts, passing, past, paying, peals, peculiar, peering, penetrated, Penniless, perceived, perceiving, perform, perished, perpendicular, perspiration, phantasm, Philistine, picked, Picking, pictorial, piece, Piltdown, pit, Plainly, pleasant, Poe, Polyphemus, portion, possible, preparatory, press, prey, primitive, prisoners, prize, prodigious, progressed, proportion, protruding, provisions, puny, pure, purposes, putrid, quality, queer, questions, raider, ran, rate, raving, rays, reach, reached, read, realise, reality, realized, realms, recall, recesses, recollections, reeking, reflecting, reflections, regarding, region, regions, relief, reliefs, remarked, remember, remembrance, reminiscences, remnants, reply, rescue, rescuers, revealed, rim, rock, rocks, rotting, San, sang, sat, Satan's, save, say, scaly, scant, scarcely, scenery, scenic, scientist's, scorching, scrambled, scrawled, scrutiny, sculptures, seafaring, search, seen, sensation, sensations, set, setting, shade, shadow, shadows, shaped, sharper, shockingly, shone, shores, short, should, shrine, shuddering, silence, silent, sing, singular, sinister, sink, slave, slavery, sleep, slid, slime, slippery, slopes, slumber, small, soaked, soared, solitude, somewhat, sort, sought, sounds, source, south, speak, spellbound, squalid, stars, started, steadily, steeply, steeps, stickiness, still, stillness, storm, street, stricken, stupendous, Stygian, subjects, submarine, sucked, suddenly, sufficiently, summit, sunk, sunset, supercargo, supply, supposed, surcease, surging, symbols, system, taken, talons, terror, theory, third, thither, thrill, thrown, thunder, tones, tonight, torture, toward, towering, trace, transformation, transient, travel, travelled, travelling, treated, tried, troubled, turned, unable, uncounted, undulations, unending, unfashioned, unfathomable, universal, unlike, unprecedented, unutterable, unwise, Urged, us, utters, vague, vaguely, vanished, vastness, vent, vessel, victim, view, visible, vision, visions, vivid, vividly, volcanic, waiting, walk, washed, watery, wavelets, waves, weakling, weary, weather, webbed, weirdly, went, westward, whale, whales, where, while, whitely, wide, wild, wildest, winding, within, wonder, work, workmanship, worship, worshipping, written, yards, yawned, years, young, zenith.
Monday, January 04, 2010
Lovecraft's Words
Here are the top 100 words used in common writing:
1 the, 2 of, 3 and, 4 and, 5 to, 6 in, 7 is, 8 you, 9 that, 10 it, 11 he, 12 was, 13 for, 14 on, 15 are, 16 as, 17 with, 18 his, 19 they, 20 i, 21 at, 22 be, 23 this, 24 have, 25 from, 26 or, 27 one, 28 had, 29 by, 30 word, 31 but, 32 not, 33 what, 34 all, 35 were, 36 were, 37 when, 38 your, 39 can, 40 said, 41 there, 42 use, 43 an , 44 each, 45 which, 46 she, 47 do, 48 how, 49 their, 50 if, 51 will, 52 up, 53 other, 54 about, 55 out, 56 many, 57 then, 58 them, 59 these, 60 so, 61 some, 62 her, 63 would, 64 make, 65 like, 66 him, 67 into, 68 time, 69 has, 70 look, 71 two, 72 more, 73 write, 74 go, 75 see, 76 number, 77 no , 78 way, 79 could, 80 people, 81 my, 82 than, 83 first, 84 water, 85 been, 86 call, 87 who, 88 oil, 89 its, 90 now, 91 find, 92 long, 93 down, 94 day, 95 did, 96 get, 97 come, 98 made, 99 may, 100 part,
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With some effort using a combination of excel, access, and word (I'm no programmer) I took Dagon as found in dagonbytes and parsed it. I used to do this years ago with another collleague whom I've lost touch with, and thought that 2010 would be a good year to resurrect some of that old research - which is now long lost. Or maybe on some floppy disk. Who can remember!
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Dagon, all occurrences of 5 or more words.
the=165, I=91, of=90, and=62, a=57, to=41, in=40, was=33, that=31, my=27, which=22, had=21, as=19, for=18, it=18, me=18, at=16, On=15, but=14, not=14, its=13, or=12, some=11, were=11, with=11, an=10, when=10, have=9, into=9, boat=8, by=8, moon=8, myself=8, So=8, their=8, could=7, day=7, from=7, out=7, be=6, ocean=6, shall=6, sun=6, things=6, though=6, whose=6, all=5, been=5, land=5, night=5, no=5, only=5, other=5, sea=5, than=5, they=5, think=5, This=5, upon=5, very=5, water=5
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We can quickly determine what makes Lovecraft's words different. It's well known that he rarely uses "her" or any reference to the female unless he was redacting someone else's fiction. We see that here.
Dagon is about the sea, so water, boat, land (a Hegelian dualism contrast), ocean appear.
Then we see truly Lovecraftian words: sun, moon, night, day. Astronomy permeated Lovecraft's writing.
Think upon these things, and more tomorrow.
1 the, 2 of, 3 and, 4 and, 5 to, 6 in, 7 is, 8 you, 9 that, 10 it, 11 he, 12 was, 13 for, 14 on, 15 are, 16 as, 17 with, 18 his, 19 they, 20 i, 21 at, 22 be, 23 this, 24 have, 25 from, 26 or, 27 one, 28 had, 29 by, 30 word, 31 but, 32 not, 33 what, 34 all, 35 were, 36 were, 37 when, 38 your, 39 can, 40 said, 41 there, 42 use, 43 an , 44 each, 45 which, 46 she, 47 do, 48 how, 49 their, 50 if, 51 will, 52 up, 53 other, 54 about, 55 out, 56 many, 57 then, 58 them, 59 these, 60 so, 61 some, 62 her, 63 would, 64 make, 65 like, 66 him, 67 into, 68 time, 69 has, 70 look, 71 two, 72 more, 73 write, 74 go, 75 see, 76 number, 77 no , 78 way, 79 could, 80 people, 81 my, 82 than, 83 first, 84 water, 85 been, 86 call, 87 who, 88 oil, 89 its, 90 now, 91 find, 92 long, 93 down, 94 day, 95 did, 96 get, 97 come, 98 made, 99 may, 100 part,
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With some effort using a combination of excel, access, and word (I'm no programmer) I took Dagon as found in dagonbytes and parsed it. I used to do this years ago with another collleague whom I've lost touch with, and thought that 2010 would be a good year to resurrect some of that old research - which is now long lost. Or maybe on some floppy disk. Who can remember!
_____
Dagon, all occurrences of 5 or more words.
the=165, I=91, of=90, and=62, a=57, to=41, in=40, was=33, that=31, my=27, which=22, had=21, as=19, for=18, it=18, me=18, at=16, On=15, but=14, not=14, its=13, or=12, some=11, were=11, with=11, an=10, when=10, have=9, into=9, boat=8, by=8, moon=8, myself=8, So=8, their=8, could=7, day=7, from=7, out=7, be=6, ocean=6, shall=6, sun=6, things=6, though=6, whose=6, all=5, been=5, land=5, night=5, no=5, only=5, other=5, sea=5, than=5, they=5, think=5, This=5, upon=5, very=5, water=5
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We can quickly determine what makes Lovecraft's words different. It's well known that he rarely uses "her" or any reference to the female unless he was redacting someone else's fiction. We see that here.
Dagon is about the sea, so water, boat, land (a Hegelian dualism contrast), ocean appear.
Then we see truly Lovecraftian words: sun, moon, night, day. Astronomy permeated Lovecraft's writing.
Think upon these things, and more tomorrow.
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