I’m a big fan of Wordles, as you may be able to tell recently :-) Any way to flip perspectives a bit and give us a way to see reality in a different way gets a thumbs-up in my book.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. The bigger a word in the image, the more times it was used in the text.
Here’s a very interesting one that I just created. I was curious about how the Rule of St. Benedict laid out in a word graph. Since there’s so much discussion these days (in my own little world in any case) of the Rule, I wondered how the text presents itself. I used the 1949 translation that’s in public domain.
So here’s an image for you (RSS readers may have to click through):
What does that image mean to you?