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Out of Time's Abyss
Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1963
words removed
36,300
marks left
5,813
words a sentence
19.4
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: The Damned Thing, Ambrose Bierce. More twins
Edgar Rice Burroughs on the shelf
9 books by Edgar Rice Burroughs are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 8th closest of the 9 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Ray Cummings. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Edgar Rice Burroughs's punctuation is closest to H. G. Wells's.
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On the map
Where this book sits among the shelf, by its punctuation alone: pauses before each stop across, the share of question and exclamation marks up. The full map
