The Spirit-rapper

words removed
100,627
marks left
18,721
words a sentence
22.6
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 Romance of Lust, Anonymous. More twins

Orestes Augustus Brownson on the shelf

It's the only book by Orestes Augustus Brownson on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Orestes Augustus Brownson's punctuation is closest to Plutarch's.

Plutarch's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons6.37.2
Commas106.776.6
Colons0.21.6
Exclamation marks0.52.8
Question marks2.13.7
Words per sentence22.617.0
Dialogue42%22%

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

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