The Damned Thing

words removed
3,305
marks left
696
words a sentence
15.6
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: Out of Time's Abyss, Edgar Rice Burroughs. More twins

Ambrose Bierce on the shelf

2 books by Ambrose Bierce are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Ambrose Bierce's punctuation is closest to Bram Stoker's.

Ambrose Bierce's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookAmbrose Bierce's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons9.19.87.2
Commas62.361.676.6
Colons1.81.31.6
Exclamation marks3.04.62.8
Question marks4.52.73.7
Words per sentence15.616.917.0
Dialogue63%36%22%

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

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