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#157 +VI

The words “door” and “doors” occur 107 times across 26 chapters in Project Hail Mary.

In Earth sections, “door” occurs 31 times and ”doors” 5 times. It is only ever used by the narrator.

In Space sections, “door” occurs 62 times and ”doors” 9 times. Each form is used by Grace in direct speech 1 time and “doors” is used by Rocky 1 time.

Here’s a visualization of the relative frequencies across all sections and chapters of the book.

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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 “door” or “doors” (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).

Are there any doors in here?

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