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And of these shall I speak to those eager, That quality of wisdom that all the wise wish And call creative qualities And good creation of the mind The all-powerful truth Truly and that more & better ways are discovered Towards perfection --Zarathustra.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

writing seminars decrypted

Jul 10, 2011

Dear M-:

I noticed that the PDF of writing seminars was encrypted using a
simple cypher. In other words, when I copied and pasted the text into
my text editor, it came out as gobbledygook, but I was able to see the
pattern, because it just required simple letter-replacements to
restore order! Accordingly, I decided to make the replacements with
a tiny computer program, to give you something you could do keyword
searches on.

I also figured it would be useful to create a "wordle" diagram (word
cloud); this is attached as well. Using the word cloud you can see
the popularity of various keywords. So for example, "poetry" isn't
anywhere near as popular as "essays". Not all of the keywords make
it onto this list, however!

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