The Fables of Aesop

words removed
14,922
marks left
2,622
words a sentence
19.3
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: The Game of Life and How to Play It, Florence Scovel Shinn. More twins

Aesop on the shelf

4 books by Aesop 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 Aesop as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Aesop's punctuation is closest to Olive Harper's.

Aesop's average fingerprint

Aesop on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookAesop's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons6.44.07.2
Commas59.066.076.6
Colons4.43.41.6
Exclamation marks1.12.52.8
Question marks3.22.63.7
Words per sentence19.321.017.0
Dialogue20%21%22%

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

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