The Poetics of Aristotle

words removed
15,256
marks left
3,019
words a sentence
22.4
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: The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell. More twins

Aristotle on the shelf

3 books by Aristotle are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Charles Darwin. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Aristotle's punctuation is closest to Julius Caesar's.

Aristotle's average fingerprint

Aristotle on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookAristotle's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons10.414.57.2
Commas87.478.076.6
Colons4.68.21.6
Exclamation marks0.00.02.8
Question marks0.40.83.7
Words per sentence22.437.417.0
Dialogue10%5%22%

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

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