The Catcher: 73,000 Words in a Row

Writing a novel is a cinch: you just put lots of words in a row. Not even necessarily different words - maybe there are only around 15,000 different words in CR - probably less. Usually all these words (apart from the odd name) already exist, so you do not have to be inventive either.    Stupid thoughts? Maybe. Then again, I believe it is interesting to think about this for a while, because in a sense it is also mind-boggling...    Of course, there is a tiny difference between lots of words in a row and a novel. Here's what someone said about 2,300 years ago: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. ARISTOTLE, Metaphysica 10f-1045a    Below you'll find a number of words from CR and how often they appear in the novel...
TOTAL NUMBER OF WORDS  (approx)	73,921
school	66
friend(ly)	24
Christmas	33
museum	18
Sally	54
Jane	50	(funny - fewer than Sally's)
fuck	6
nun(s)	14
Allie	38
Phoebe	116	!!
phony	36
goddam	245	including people like Stradlater using it