The Two Magics

words removed
78,356
marks left
22,599
words a sentence
13.2
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 Girl Philippa, Robert W. Chambers. More twins

Henry James on the shelf

3 books by Henry James are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Sax Rohmer. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Henry James's punctuation is closest to Marah Ellis Ryan's.

Henry James's average fingerprint

Henry James on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookHenry James's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons6.38.77.2
Commas80.774.276.6
Colons2.11.91.6
Exclamation marks9.56.32.8
Question marks11.89.13.7
Words per sentence13.215.017.0
Dialogue31%31%22%

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

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