A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

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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: The Golden Bough, James George Frazer. More twins

Sigmund Freud on the shelf

2 books by Sigmund Freud are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Sigmund Freud's punctuation is closest to Vernon Louis Parrington's.

Sigmund Freud's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookSigmund Freud's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.45.57.2
Commas60.260.676.6
Colons1.32.81.6
Exclamation marks0.30.32.8
Question marks1.71.43.7
Words per sentence24.023.917.0
Dialogue5%7%22%

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

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