The Everlasting Man

words removed
107,714
marks left
10,195
words a sentence
25.3
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: Limanora, Godfrey Sweven. More twins

G. K. Chesterton on the shelf

13 books by G. K. Chesterton are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 13th closest of the 13 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Cornelius Tacitus. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, G. K. Chesterton's punctuation is closest to Charles Edward Russell's.

G. K. Chesterton's average fingerprint

G. K. Chesterton on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookG. K. Chesterton's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons15.210.37.6
Commas31.657.778.1
Colons0.61.51.8
Exclamation marks0.01.12.0
Question marks0.83.02.8
Words per sentence25.320.517.7
Dialogue4%24%18%

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

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