Concordance!

Boy oh boy, how come I hadn't learned about concordances before? These are marvelous! The first one I saw was for Chuckie D (Darwin) and it blew mind right out the back of my skull. It becomes pure poetry. The 'species' entry was the largest, with it noting he used the word on almost every page of The Origin of Species. The sentences taken together form a new cohesion of thought, a wildly thoughtful new perspective on writing ideas down. Which words were used where? The biggest world of concordances is of course the ol' Bible. Next is Shakespeare. After that, you got yer big boys (Milton, Blake, Dante) and other tiers of hotness (Poe, Shelley, Gibbon). Even music guys (Leonard Cohen, Richard Wagner). Lordy, so this idea of organizing the words used and how often and where has been around for a couple hundred years? The Germans started it. Then it grew into consolidated nerd studies of certain works, certain writers. This is exciting. Apparently it's like an ultimate student-of-something task. Concordance! Love the word. Love Concordia as well. I've GOT to get into a Leaves of Grass concordance ... and Napoleon! Of course, now you can access the info through these little computer machine things ... joyous 21st century 2 bee sure, right on. 3 hot concordances here.