Thus Spake Zarathustra

words removed
113,444
marks left
25,306
words a sentence
14.9
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: The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza"), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. More twins

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche on the shelf

9 books by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 9th closest of the 9 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's punctuation is closest to Edwin Abbott Abbott's.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's average fingerprint

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.16.97.2
Commas74.777.576.6
Colons15.58.61.6
Exclamation marks20.56.52.8
Question marks7.84.53.7
Words per sentence14.925.317.0
Dialogue12%7%22%

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

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