Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World

words removed
52,187
marks left
8,401
words a sentence
29.4
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: "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries, Julius Caesar. More twins

Jonathan Swift on the shelf

3 books by Jonathan Swift are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Arthur Schopenhauer. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Jonathan Swift's punctuation is closest to Flavius Josephus's.

Jonathan Swift's average fingerprint

Jonathan Swift on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJonathan Swift's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.211.27.2
Commas89.296.876.6
Colons3.43.51.6
Exclamation marks0.10.22.8
Question marks0.50.53.7
Words per sentence29.438.417.0
Dialogue1%8%22%

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

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