[lbo-talk] gender guesser: that faggot of faulkner

[ulisse mangialaio]

results for the most beautiful passage of english prose i ever read, the letter of charles bon to judith in absalom, absalom and whose incipit reads:

   

  You will notice how I insult neither of us by claiming this to be a voice from the defeated even, let alone from the dead. In fact, if I were a philosopher I should deduce and derive a curious and apt commentary on the times and augur of the future from this letter which you now hold in your hands - a sheet of notepaper with, as you can see, the best of French watermarks dated seventy years ago, salvaged (stolen if you will) from the gutted mansion of a ruined aristocrat; and written upon in the best of stove polish manufactured not twelve months ago in a New England factory.

   

  Genre: Informal

  Female = 1649

  Male   = 2271

  Difference = 622; 57.93%

  Verdict: Weak MALE

  Weak emphasis could indicate European.

   

  Genre: Formal

  Female = 1482

  Male   = 1337

  Difference = -145; 47.42%

  Verdict: Weak FEMALE

  Weak emphasis could indicate European.

   

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