#115 λII
The word “stupid” occurs 31 times in Project Hail Mary.
It only occurs 1 time in an Earth section, spoken by Stratt.
In the Space sections, it appears 30 times (especially in chapters 20 and 21). Grace uses it 21 times as narrator and 3 times in direct speech. Rocky uses it 6 times.
Here’s a visualization of the relative frequencies across all sections and chapters of the book.
Each coloured bar represents a section and is colour-coded for Earth sections (green) and Space sections (purple).
The grey bars represent the chapters, which are marked with ticks and numbers.
The y-axis is the relative frequency, i.e. the proportion of tokens in that section (or chapter) that match “stupid” (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
Why stupid, question?
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