1.1 The Motivating Question1.2 Further Questions About Texts1.3 Zipf's and Herdan's Laws1.4 Markov and Finite‐State Processes1.5 More General Stochastic Processes1.6 Two Interpretations of Probability1.7 Insights from Information Theory1.8 Estimation of Entropy Rate1.9 Entropy of Natural Language1.10 Algorithmic Information Theory1.11 Descriptions of a Random World1.12 Facts and Words Related1.13 Repetitions and Entropies1.14 Decay of Correlations1.15 Recapitulation