And in the first months of 2000, a crop of contemporary theater folk have been essaying the same task, spinning off audacious adaptations that link Aeschylus to the sociopolitical anxieties of the age.
The goal is to get the computer to give each essay the same score a human grader would.
The novel and the essays announced the same theme, though the novel did it on a downdraft and the essays on uplift: meaning is where you make it and life is absurd.
But Capote's essays in the same genre have a style and easy grace of their own.
That version of Sedaris makes frequent and deeply satisfying appearances on "Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls," an audio version of the book of essays of the same title.
Commentators on the right and left, liberal Thom Hartmann and conservative Ike Brannon, published essays on the same day, Feb. 22, saying the same thing: Americans should have the right to discharge their student debt in bankruptcy proceedings, just like all other loans.
Admissions committees accustomed to reading 650-word Common App essays will likely be unfazed by a Coalition essay of the same length.
Note: Since the publication of this essay on February 14 , 2010 a magnificent essay on the same subject by Jason Epstein appeared in the March 11 , 2010issue of the New York Review of Books.
If you have a bit more time try and find an essay on the same topic and stick bits of that in as well.
