The Silent Barrier

words removed
83,938
marks left
17,036
words a sentence
13.4
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: A Victor of Salamis, William Stearns Davis. More twins

Louis Tracy on the shelf

4 books by Louis Tracy are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 4th closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Arthur Conan Doyle. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Louis Tracy's punctuation is closest to Compton Mackenzie's.

Louis Tracy's average fingerprint

Louis Tracy on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookLouis Tracy's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons4.12.27.2
Commas58.268.676.6
Colons0.40.81.6
Exclamation marks3.63.42.8
Question marks6.36.33.7
Words per sentence13.415.017.0
Dialogue37%39%22%

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

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