For this project I chose the whole text in Jorge Luis Borges “Labyrinths” and I was curious to find out which words were the most frequent and from those which ones where meaningful to me. After running the text through HyperPo I distilled the following list which I consider to be words that have a special meaning for Borges (The numbers are the number of frequencies.):
i 677
man 120
time 99
men 67
world 63
secret 62
now 61
book 55
day 50
years 49
night 48
books 47
thought 45
possibility 11
space 10
mother 10
woman 6
women 2
I then marked with XML the minimum amount of text that could be a phrase around each word. I wanted to be able to “see” all the contexts of each word as a whole. For example:
… He was seeking a soul worthy of participating in the universe….
I resorted to having two lists: One with all the phrases where “space” or “time” are mentioned, and another one with all the phrases where “universe” or “world” are mentioned. Every time you would land on a square you would have a phrase displayed, creating a new mode of reading the original text.