The Birth of Tragedy

words removed
54,924
marks left
8,760
words a sentence
35.4
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 Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I., Edward William Lane. More twins

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche on the shelf

9 books by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 7th closest of the 9 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's punctuation is closest to Edwin Abbott Abbott's.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's average fingerprint

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.16.97.2
Commas79.577.576.6
Colons7.38.61.6
Exclamation marks1.96.52.8
Question marks2.94.53.7
Words per sentence35.425.317.0
Dialogue9%7%22%

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

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