The String of Pearls
- words removed
- 441,502
- marks left
- 112,342
- words a sentence
- 15.6
- 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 King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers. More twins
Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.
The whole book, wound from the center out. Sentence endings are pink. Pinch, or hold Ctrl and scroll, to zoom. Drag to move around.
Every letter and number is gone. The marks stay where they were on the page.
Through the book
How often each mark turns up as the book goes on, from the first page on the left to the last on the right. Each bar is a tenth of the book, and each row is scaled to its own peak.
On the map
Where this book sits among the shelf, by its punctuation alone: pauses before each stop across, the share of question and exclamation marks up. The full map
Every mark
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