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The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1882
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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: Ecce Homo, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. More twins
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche on the shelf
9 books by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 9 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's punctuation is closest to Edwin Abbott Abbott's.
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