#184 V̶ℓ+
Forms of the word “think” occur 280 times in Project Hail Mary.
This includes “think” 204 times, “thought” 46 times, “thinking” 21 times, and “thinks” 9 times.
The bare form “think” appears in every chapter. It occurs 60 times in Earth timelines and 144 times in Space timelines.
In Space, the narrator uses “think” 120 times, “thought” 22 times, “thinking” 14 times, and “thinks” 7 times.
Rocky uses “think” 6 times, “thinking” 6 times, and “thought” 2 times.
On Earth, the narrator uses “thought” (10 times), “think” (7 times), and “thinking” (1 time). Bob Redell uses “thought” (1 time), “think” (1 time), “thinking” (1 time). Dr. Browne uses “think” (1 time). Dr. Lokken uses “think” (3 times) and “thought” (1 time). DuBois uses “thought” (2 times). Easton uses “think” (1 time). Graces uses “think” (22 times), “thought” (5 times) and “thinks” (1 time). Ilyukhina uses “think” (1 time). Marissa uses “thought” (1 times) and “think” (1 time). Sandra Elias uses “think” (1 time). Steve Hatch uses “think” (1 time). Statt uses “think” (18 times) and “thought” (2 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 forms of “think” (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
A flood of thoughts hit me all at the same time
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