If you haven't already come across it, check out Google's Ngram Viewer. It's a tool which searches through the text of all millions of books over hundreds of years. It's a pretty powerful illustration of how art mirrors life.
Some of my favourite insights are:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY-_K0rS1OXNQA-mgoe64mFUjF5pFXqi_3c_EQJMBGCksTNSD87F8U49OqKBV9L3yBRnEK3bKKgFPtjzSq61QOUjG7FOJSD-3YTg1vsaBksI1WqD7vPtlihvd9epgUS862UYbkyc4tfokK/s640/manwoman.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw6Mdnbn8mJlX7auNQ7Y82CsW1qOenRa1bS1v67kqX1_cZ15D0X8JsHtU-tIKjgWEbwSACrggMQFXfDBWVZx5b26pvJTw_YQE186_Z9llsZ1DA0qXx-4N3sBwl7t67f2dU4YcSJ3WRJEaO/s640/bestoftimes.jpg)
Pretty cool, right? Or maybe just for a geek like me ;-)
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