oxygen: the part of air that can burn
difficult: hard, not easy
I once wrote up a description of Batman (on my computer at home, so I can’t copy and paste it here) that used only the ten hundred most used words plus proper nouns. It’s hard to talk about Batman without saying “Batman”, “Gotham”, “Bruce Wayne”, “Alfred”, head of the police group “Gordon”, etc.
One extension of this idea that might be interesting would be to generate the corpus of thousand most used words using works published at different times and see how time-stable your story is. Would a story told using the thousand most common words in 2022 also use just the thousand most common words from 2000? Where’s the overlap?
