The Car of Destiny

words removed
123,355
marks left
24,658
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: Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson. More twins

C. N. Williamson on the shelf

3 books by C. N. Williamson are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for George Eliot. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, C. N. Williamson's punctuation is closest to H. De Vere Stacpoole's.

C. N. Williamson's average fingerprint

C. N. Williamson on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookC. N. Williamson's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons12.19.07.2
Commas73.874.476.6
Colons0.10.81.6
Exclamation marks2.23.02.8
Question marks3.53.83.7
Words per sentence19.718.417.0
Dialogue29%22%22%

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

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