The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

words removed
269,803
marks left
39,132
words a sentence
30.0
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 Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2), Bernal Díaz del Castillo. More twins

Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the shelf

5 books by Jean-Jacques Rousseau are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Jonathan Swift. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's punctuation is closest to Flavius Josephus's.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's average fingerprint

Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJean-Jacques Rousseau's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.613.97.6
Commas86.277.678.1
Colons2.42.71.8
Exclamation marks1.11.42.0
Question marks0.93.02.8
Words per sentence30.032.717.7
Dialogue4%4%18%

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

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