The Game of Life and How to Play It

words removed
21,625
marks left
4,626
words a sentence
17.0
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 Fables of Aesop, Aesop. More twins

Florence Scovel Shinn on the shelf

It's the only book by Florence Scovel Shinn on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Florence Scovel Shinn's punctuation is closest to Aesop's.

Aesop's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons3.97.2
Commas80.676.6
Colons6.21.6
Exclamation marks2.42.8
Question marks0.93.7
Words per sentence17.017.0
Dialogue26%22%

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

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