Distribution of Q-Q gaps in paragraphs

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But how would he have done it then?

We can only guess how it was done.

But because the writing seems to flow fluently I do not believe that he stopped after every word to consult tables or throw dice in order to decide the next word. He seems to have had the ability just to write. I had an idea some time ago for a possible scenario [ You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ].

Also, the writer was not an automaton. Human randomness is not the same as computational randomness. We all know humans are not good at mimicking randomness. Psychological tricks sometimes mislead. For instance the writer might have been tempted to follow a short prefix with a long suffix, or a long prefix with a short suffix. Short-short seems to occur less than expected. This seems to be so with  oky . But also this word occurs more often than expected at the end of a line. Obviously this is one word the writer liked to use when he was approaching the edge of the page and had to choose something small with which to terminate.

he should not have chosen to generate it by combining prefixes and suffixes

But he did. And this is where he made a mistake. And gave us a clue to the deception. He was not sufficiently clever in hiding the fabrication. It might have fooled people in the 15th century. But today with the assistence of programmable computers we can see something of the way it was done.