Notes from the Underground

words removed
44,385
marks left
8,875
words a sentence
16.7
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: White Nights, and Other Stories, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. More twins

Fyodor Dostoyevsky on the shelf

7 books by Fyodor Dostoyevsky are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 6th closest of the 7 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Leo Tolstoy. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's punctuation is closest to Leo Tolstoy's.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's average fingerprint

Fyodor Dostoyevsky on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookFyodor Dostoyevsky's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons6.76.37.2
Commas81.682.276.6
Colons2.11.61.6
Exclamation marks6.48.32.8
Question marks6.78.63.7
Words per sentence16.715.817.0
Dialogue23%53%22%

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

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