"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries

words removed
161,956
marks left
29,658
words a sentence
30.0
most used mark
,

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: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World, Jonathan Swift. More twins

Julius Caesar on the shelf

It's the only book by Julius Caesar on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Julius Caesar's punctuation is closest to Arthur Schopenhauer's.

Arthur Schopenhauer's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons12.87.2
Commas98.476.6
Colons3.31.6
Exclamation marks0.02.8
Question marks0.43.7
Words per sentence30.017.0
Dialogue9%22%

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

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