Meditations

words removed
72,147
marks left
12,764
words a sentence
20.4
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: Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, Edmund Spenser. More twins

Marcus Aurelius on the shelf

It's the only book by Marcus Aurelius on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Marcus Aurelius's punctuation is closest to Edmund Spenser's.

Edmund Spenser'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
Semicolons12.37.2
Commas88.776.6
Colons6.81.6
Exclamation marks0.62.8
Question marks5.83.7
Words per sentence20.417.0
Dialogue7%22%

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

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