When thinking about texts/authors that have a fraught relationship with time (as if there are any who don't), my first thought was to examine the relationship between Ezra Pound's "Canto I" and Homer's Odyssey, "Book 11: The Book of the Dead".  In light of Pound's famous command to "make it new," I wanted to see how much (or how little) Pound deviates from his Homeric source material.  I liked the idea of working from a text's "StoryDNA" as the BookLamp Lab site phrases their project, both because it offers a chance to bring relations and heredity into our conversation about relationships across time, and because I couldn't find a program that would let me "catch" Pound plagiarizing.  

Unfortunately I was forced to compare the two authors based on the readymade list of material available through the site; so while I was able to compare the trajectory of the themes (genes?) "Life/Death/Spirituality/Fate" and "History/Academics/Culture" in the work of both authors, I was forced to compare the entirety of Homer's Text to the unpromising "Early Works of Ezra Pound."  The Pound text available certainly does not include the Cantos, but it might be fruitful to see how much or how little the two authors' writings overlap.  

Results for The Odyssey by Homer:

Results for Early Works by Ezra Pound:

It's interesting that the site automatically listed "History/Academics/Culture" as a piece of "The Odyssey"s DNA, and then represented this element as a flatline throughout the whole of the text.  I looked to the Book Genome Project website to try to see how this data was chosen (apparently by "ignoring genre and super-classifications and instead only paying attention to the page-by-page components"), but this left me more mystified by how the potential DNA component to visualize had been chosen.

After screen-capping these results, I realized that my screen wasn't able to fit one of the most interesting elements of the results.  The first line to show up puts both results on the same line, reminding me of my days studying Geology and looking at how different layers of rock can be warped and aligned:

I'm also perplexed by their disclaimer that "thickness of the line is more important than the placement of the line"- I'm not entirely sure what that could mean, or what it says about this as a viable tool when discussing temporality.