The Social Contract & Discourses

words removed
123,917
marks left
16,982
words a sentence
31.8
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 History of Rome, Books 01 to 08, Livy. More twins

Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the shelf

5 books by Jean-Jacques Rousseau are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Jean-Jacques Rousseau as its author. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's punctuation is closest to Flavius Josephus's.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's average fingerprint

Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJean-Jacques Rousseau's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.313.97.6
Commas78.677.678.1
Colons3.32.71.8
Exclamation marks0.41.42.0
Question marks2.23.02.8
Words per sentence31.832.717.7
Dialogue3%4%18%

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

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