How does
it work?
The
offered search is separated into two parts: In a first run you can search for
the existence of a word or word-combination. The result is sent to you in an
e-mail which lists the novels, stories or articles with positive search
results, including the number of occurrences in each text.
The
search results may look something like this:
HELLTEXlibris found occurrences of „Randall Flagg“ in following works by Stephen King:
31 x in: The Stand (Complete & Uncut)
24 x in: The Stand
(1978 version)
12 x in: The Stand (Teleplay)
4 x in: DT7-The
2 x in: DT6-Song of Susannah
1 x in: DT5-Wolves
of the Calla
1 x in: DT4-Wizard
and Glass
1 x in: The Reel
Stephen King (My best Movies)
1 x in: Setting
the End of the World to Music
4 x in: On Writing
1 x in: Danse Macabre
In
a second run you can choose from which of the resulting texts the passages
including your search phrase should be quoted. The quote of each text part will
be sent to you including the approximated place in the text, in order to allow
you a further investigation of the context in the books from your own shelf.
The
resulting mail would now include something like this:
HELLTEXlibris found the following occurrences of „Randall Flagg“ in “The Dark Tower 6 – Song of Susannah”:
» Vampires. Low
men. Other servants of the Crimson King, maybe.
Possibly Walter, the hooded man in black who sometimes
shifted his shape and form and called himself Randall Flagg.
Possibly even the Crimson King himself. « [82%]
»
I've already got over 200 pages, and was delighted to find Roland and his
friends investigating the remains of the superflu;
seeing evidence of both Randall Flagg and Mother Abagail. « [99%]
One
thing about this site should be made perfectly clear though: The Kingdom Search
won't act in any way detrimental to either Stephen King or his publishers. One
of the five proverbs Mr. King has included in his serialized Castle Rock
publication, "Dolan's Cadillac," has been: "Take what you want
-- and pay for it." Correspondingly, the intention of this website is NOT
to make the collected works of Stephen King publicly available to everyone. The
only goal of this service is to help King researchers with their studies, and
to be an aid for Stephen King's constant readers who are seeking one special
phrase they have read somewhere, but can't quite remember where it was.
Additionally,
I declare that only short stanzas of the quoted works will be sent out, and no larger passages or even complete works. That's
also the reason for the fact that, although the “HELLTEX libris”
search engine has been programmed especially for this purpose, the requests
themselves are all processed manually to guarantee the control about what is
going out. (I promise, though, that I will try to answer each request within 24
hours.)
Hopefully,
I have made clear that I'm truly honouring Mr. King's appeal he expressed in
the online "contract" for his e-book project, "The Plant":
"Respect my copyright. As a writer, it's all I've got."