Bill Bryson Quotes
Faced With A Wealth Of Text But A Poverty Of Context, Scholars Have Focused Obsessively On What They Can Know. They Have Counted Every Word He Wrote, Logged Every Dib And Jot. They Can Tell Us (and Have Done So) That Shakespeare's Works Contain 138,198 Commas, 26,794 Colons, And 15,785 Question Marks; That Ears Are Spoken Of 401 Times In His Plays; That Dunghill Is Used 10 Times And Dullard Twice; That His Characters Refer To Love 2,259 Times But To Hate Just 183 Times; That He Used Damned 105 Times And Bloody 226 Times, But Bloody-minded Only Twice; That He Wrote Hath 2,069 Times But Has Just 409 Times; That All Together He Left Us 884,647 Words, Made Up Of 31,959 Speeches, Spread Over 118,406 Lines.
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