Sketches New and Old

words removed
99,437
marks left
20,108
words a sentence
19.7
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: Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad. More twins

Mark Twain on the shelf

11 books by Mark Twain are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 11 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Mark Twain as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Mark Twain's punctuation is closest to Henry Harland's.

Mark Twain's average fingerprint

Mark Twain on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookMark Twain's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons6.310.67.2
Commas69.468.576.6
Colons2.42.21.6
Exclamation marks5.44.72.8
Question marks3.23.63.7
Words per sentence19.719.117.0
Dialogue31%25%22%

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

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