He makes concordances of different texts basically, an alphabetical list of all the words and the contexts in which they appear in a text. Ian Lancashire, an English professor at the University of Toronto, has spent much of his career trying to see past the words on the page and into the psyche of the author. It turns out that what we write, and how we write, may hold clues about our future selves.
But the daily traces we leave behind in our writings – more and more in today's world of emails, blogs and Facebook pages – may reveal much more than whom you had a crush on in middle school or that embarrassing dream you had last week.
If you've ever kept a journal, you've probably worried about someone coming across it and getting an uninvited peek into your personal life. A question: can you predict Alzheimer's by a careful analysis of someone’s writing? An English professor has suggested there are tell-tale signs of early Alzheimer's in Agatha Christie’s book, Elephants Can Remember.
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