Wow, even as I did not really understand all of the code, as it is quite clearly above my comfort-level, I really loved this post, as it showed me a lot of what is possible.
Having studied literature and developed a liking for a quite formalistic school of analysis I should have read more on this/got these ideas some years earlier.
I believe, that there really lies an interesting possible topic of research for students of literature, following the school of structuralism/formalism analyzing intertextuality.
Looking at a big corpus of texts from different authors/epochs (and so on) and looking at topics, references, analog "links" between the texts, quotes, et al, would maybe yield quite a "Library of Babel"[1]
Having studied literature and developed a liking for a quite formalistic school of analysis I should have read more on this/got these ideas some years earlier.
I believe, that there really lies an interesting possible topic of research for students of literature, following the school of structuralism/formalism analyzing intertextuality.
Looking at a big corpus of texts from different authors/epochs (and so on) and looking at topics, references, analog "links" between the texts, quotes, et al, would maybe yield quite a "Library of Babel"[1]
[1]: http://amzn.to/1dPUUg7