Month: January 2021

such mystery much clue very elementary Watson The Hound of the Baskervilles may not have a canine main character in the same way Call of the Wild did, but it does have a definite dog theme to it and that…

Identify individual words that uniquely define a book’s vocabulary is fairly easy. But what about doing sentence level analysis? What if we wanted to find “the most unique sentence” in the entire book? The primary challenge here is deciding just…

Having now talked a little about what makes The Hound of the Baskervilles unique let us once again see what we can do to remove that uniqueness by automatically replacing words with their most dull and common modern equivalents. Original:…

So what words make The Hounds of the Baskervilles sound like a Sherlock story? For starter it features the two antiquated words “hath” and “zeal”. It also has an absurdly large number of instances of “anyone” and “anything”. I think…

I recently came to the shocking realization that I have never read an actual Sherlock Holmes novel. I’ve certainly watched movies and television shows based off the series as well as a few obscure animated adaptations… but when it comes…