The Varieties of Religious Experience

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188,088
marks left
31,660
words a sentence
21.5
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: Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ, Aaron Bernstein. More twins

William James on the shelf

5 books by William James are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Leo Tolstoy. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, William James's punctuation is closest to Thomas Keightley's.

William James's average fingerprint

William James on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookWilliam James's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons7.47.07.2
Commas79.973.376.6
Colons3.12.11.6
Exclamation marks1.00.92.8
Question marks1.62.33.7
Words per sentence21.521.817.0
Dialogue39%21%22%

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

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