The Call of Cthulhu

words removed
12,056
marks left
1,679
words a sentence
25.7
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: Talks To Teachers On Psychology, William James. More twins

H. P. Lovecraft on the shelf

4 books by H. P. Lovecraft are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names H. P. Lovecraft as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, H. P. Lovecraft's punctuation is closest to Solomon Northup's.

H. P. Lovecraft's average fingerprint

H. P. Lovecraft on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookH. P. Lovecraft's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons7.66.57.2
Commas58.056.976.6
Colons0.80.41.6
Exclamation marks0.50.62.8
Question marks1.20.73.7
Words per sentence25.726.917.0
Dialogue2%5%22%

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

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