The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3)

words removed
191,138
marks left
28,130
words a sentence
30.9
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: Novum Organum, Francis Bacon. More twins

Arthur Schopenhauer on the shelf

3 books by Arthur Schopenhauer are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for John Stuart Mill. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Arthur Schopenhauer's punctuation is closest to Julius Caesar's.

Arthur Schopenhauer's average fingerprint

Arthur Schopenhauer on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookArthur Schopenhauer's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.411.47.2
Commas89.182.376.6
Colons1.52.81.6
Exclamation marks0.10.52.8
Question marks0.40.63.7
Words per sentence30.930.217.0
Dialogue2%2%22%

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

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