Vanishing Words
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En is an english professor toronto. He's using a lab full of computers to analyze his favorite authors, samuel taylor, coleridge, t s eliot, james oce, cadmagossor shakespeare. And he's turning up some interesting stuff. Sort of, for example, in his poetry, milton didn't use the word because, who knows why. But at a certain point, ean decided to look at more modern authors. And so i turned to agatha christie - she happened to be the most published author ever. She sold a billion books, a billion i bbiion. That all just basely sets the stage for the
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