The People of the Black Circle

words removed
31,318
marks left
5,769
words a sentence
15.2
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: Shadows in the Moonlight, Robert E. Howard. More twins

Robert E. Howard on the shelf

5 books by Robert E. Howard are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Robert E. Howard as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Robert E. Howard's punctuation is closest to Gilbert Collins's.

Robert E. Howard's average fingerprint

Robert E. Howard on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookRobert E. Howard's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons3.12.97.2
Commas60.361.776.6
Colons0.50.71.6
Exclamation marks6.66.92.8
Question marks4.04.53.7
Words per sentence15.214.417.0
Dialogue26%28%22%

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

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