A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind

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words a sentence
52.9
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: Areopagitica, John Milton. More twins

Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the shelf

5 books by Jean-Jacques Rousseau are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Flavius Josephus. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's punctuation is closest to Flavius Josephus's.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's average fingerprint

Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJean-Jacques Rousseau's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons14.613.97.6
Commas82.877.678.1
Colons2.82.71.8
Exclamation marks0.21.42.0
Question marks1.83.02.8
Words per sentence52.932.717.7
Dialogue1%4%18%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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