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September 27, 2006

Concordance

Raymond Hsu

How a concordance is a book that breaks down all the words of an author and lists them alphabetically, according to how many times they appear, where they appear. Shakespeare, for example, says natural x number of times. Milton says God x number of times and Satan x number of times. Imagine having your own concordance: all your words indexed. You could find out how many times you said love. Or yes. Or your name. And what it would be like to find the concordance of whom you love left by your door one day in July. And what it would be like to hide it under your bed, afraid. And how long it took to look up your own name.

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From Raymond's Anthropy (2004)

Posted by Rock Heals at September 27, 2006 12:00 AM