..as a Belgian demographer once said, ‚God has chosen to give the easy problems to the physicists‛ (Wunsch 1995), but still what stings is the lack of curiosity and daring, made even sharper by the occasional flashes of brilliance and exhortation to think (quite literally) out of the box. The fate of the majority specialism of text-analysis was effectively pronounced by Rosanne Potter in 1989: ‚literary computing‛, she wrote, ‚... has not been rejected, but rather neglected‛ by mainstream critics (1989: xvi).