@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia There are academics who practice in the "digital humanities" who do this kind of proximity analysis on texts (often Shakespeare). But they do it better (still kind of dull, but they at least know what passive voice is...and what copyright is...). This smacks of "I want to write a book but I don't like to read them" or in this case, do even the smallest amount of research in his field...