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lv-krakauer D1: 126 units, 422,880 words — and an unmeasured fraction is not his prose
The first non-fiction corpus in this line. Builds clean and should not be trained on until
an operator scope call is made; the reason is in the module docstring and the manifest.
into-the-wild 25u 67,606w caps-title [smallcaps 21][back -1,015][epi -52]
missoula 32u 115,841w chapter-word [smallcaps 8][front -858][back -2,874]
under-the-banner-of-heaven 33u 118,171w caps-title
where-men-win-glory 36u 121,262w chapter-word [smallcaps 3][front -1,548][back -6,093]
⚠⚠ THE UNRESOLVED PROBLEM IS QUOTATION, AND IT IS NOT MEASURED BECAUSE IT CANNOT BE.
Krakauer quotes constantly and at length -- McCandless's journals and letters, Tillman's
diaries, court transcripts, depositions, Mormon historical documents, and whole paragraphs
of Jack London and Wallace Stegner at the chapter heads. In print those are indented or
italic; the extraction lost both, so inside the master they are ordinary paragraphs and no
signal this builder can read separates them from his own sentences.
Only 52 words were removable -- chapter-head epigraphs whose all-caps attribution line
survived. That is 0.01% and it is NOT the answer: the method would report 0.0% for a book
made entirely of undated block quotes. The stated floor rather than the number is what a
reader needs. This is the same error as excluding The Torrents of Spring from Hemingway --
another author's style under the target's name -- distributed rather than concentrated, and
the fraction is unknown. Scope is the operator's call, exactly as fiction-only was.
THREE DEFECTS THE NAME GUARD CAUGHT, none of which the build would have reported otherwise:
1. Back matter searched only the LAST unit. Where Men Win Glory's ACKNOWLEDGMENTS sits at
94.8% and the splitter made 41 units, so the apparatus landed in unit 37 with NOTES and
BIBLIOGRAPHY after it -- all past a strip that only looked at unit 41. Into the Wild
kept its acknowledgments AND a full-page advertisement for another of his books. Now
windowed to the last 25% and cut before the split.
2. Relying on the splitter to drop front matter did not work. Units begin at the first
heading mark, and in two works the ebook's table of contents sits above the author's
note -- giving the splitter a `Chapter Thirty-Two` to start on, so unit 1 swallowed the
apparatus and its signed `Jon Krakauer , February 2015`. Now cut at that signature,
windowed to the first 10%.
3. Zero was the wrong bar. 21 survivors became 2, and both were read: `Lewis Krakauer
loved his five children deeply` is Krakauer writing about his own father in the two
autobiographical chapters of Into the Wild, and the other is a reader's letter he
quotes calling him a kook. Hemingway's own name in his corpus was always publisher
apparatus, so 0 was right there; this author writes about himself. The allowance is
pinned at 2 and every survivor is printed with context, so a master change or a strip
that stops working fails loudly instead of widening in silence.
Both strips are windowed in OPPOSITE directions from McCarthy's, which is the point worth
carrying: McCarthy's apparatus is at the end and the earliest marker wins; Krakauer's is at
both ends and the same marker words appear in his front matter at 0.0-0.6% of the file.
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