[Vwoolf] Word count for voices in The Waves

[Marie Claire Boisset]

Dear Elisa:

Although I do not trust ChatGPT results, its strong suit being calculation,
I am guessing that it might be interesting/useful to put it to the test
based on the online version of TW?
Ask ChatGPT to count & do the hard work of statistics for you?

FWIW...

All best wishes to you & your loved ones for 2025! ☺️🌞

MC


On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM Elisa Sparks via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Dear All— Does anyone know/ have a quotable source on exactly how the text
> is divided up among the six voices in The Waves, mathematically, I mean. I
> have one source that mentions that Bernard is speaking for more than half
> the novel, but I
>
> Dear All—
>
> Does anyone know/ have a quotable source on exactly how the text is
> divided up among the six voices in The Waves, mathematically, I mean.  I
> have one source that mentions that Bernard is speaking for more than half
> the novel, but I would like to compare the number of flowers each character
> cites in relation to their total number of words.  Bernard refers to 6
> named flowers for a total of 19 times; Rhoda, on the other hand, is the
> flower queen of the novel, citing 11 varieties with a total of 21
> references to named flowers, twice as many as anyone but Bernard.. I have
> already started color-coding the Gutenburg text for the various characters,
> but it will be tedious indeed to try to cut and paste together each voice’s
> total output.  I am hoping that some other OC Woolf scholar may already
> have done this.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Elisa
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