Through the Looking-Glass

words removed
30,176
marks left
9,724
words a sentence
13.6
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: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll. More twins

Lewis Carroll on the shelf

2 books by Lewis Carroll are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Lewis Carroll's punctuation is closest to Archibald Clavering Gunter's.

Lewis Carroll's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookLewis Carroll's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons2.44.87.2
Commas82.186.476.6
Colons8.58.61.6
Exclamation marks16.316.62.8
Question marks8.48.03.7
Words per sentence13.614.917.0
Dialogue45%42%22%

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

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