LLM as Collaborator, Part 2: Formal structure in Heart of Darkness and literary criticism (+ a lesson on “alignment”)

The chart below depicts the length of paragraphs in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The paragraphs are listed in order, first to last, from left to right. The length of a bar is proportional to the number of words in the respective paragraph.

There is an important issue at stake: Does that chart depict a phenomenon that ...