2. Distant reading is a form of knowledge in which a “reality of the text undergoes a process of reduction and abstraction.” pg 1 Thus there will be fewer things to look at (elements of the books) in order to have a clear sense of the overall connection of shapes, relations, structures, forms, and models.

3.  This Model Theory is to show us how little we know about the literary field  In order to analyze a multitude of books Morretti said we need a canon of large amounts of books and graph the texts as a whole in order to analyze the texts.  In this case its song lyrics.

4.  The same way we need a canon of books, is the same way we need a large amount of song lyrics in order to get a result and analyze it.

6.  In Moretti the first graph from the Quantitative Data. The graphs show the rise and the fall of novels where its either in the readers interest to read the book at the time or not, and general readers that have read the book, and lastly the time of the books.  The time of the books meaning when there’s a new novel out which could be a month, two months, a year, an hour, a day.

7.  The same concept applies to song lyrics. We listen to songs when they first come out.  The songs that are most listen too end up as billboard hits and get sold out  The same thing happens with books  The books that are most read, end up as Best Seller books and go into reprinting and selling

8.  The analysis of Quantitative Research provides three types of data “The novels necessity of life”  “shift the past to the present”  “the multiplication of market riches” Morreti