Beyond the Pleasure Principle

words removed
23,584
marks left
4,737
words a sentence
17.4
most used mark
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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: A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 5, Oct. 1811-Aug. 31, 1812, Charles Oman. More twins

Sigmund Freud on the shelf

7 books by Sigmund Freud are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 7th closest of the 7 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for William James. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Sigmund Freud's punctuation is closest to Vernon Louis Parrington's.

Sigmund Freud's average fingerprint

Sigmund Freud on the numbers page

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
Semicolons4.15.17.6
Commas80.263.378.1
Colons5.52.51.8
Exclamation marks0.10.12.0
Question marks0.70.82.8
Words per sentence17.421.917.7
Dialogue37%13%18%

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

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