Totem and Taboo

words removed
62,510
marks left
8,485
words a sentence
22.2
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 Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4, R. V. Russell. More twins

Sigmund Freud on the shelf

7 books by Sigmund Freud are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 7 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Sigmund Freud as its author. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Sigmund Freud's punctuation is closest to Vernon Louis Parrington's.

Sigmund Freud's average fingerprint

Sigmund Freud on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookSigmund Freud's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons4.55.17.6
Commas47.063.378.1
Colons1.92.51.8
Exclamation marks0.00.12.0
Question marks0.50.82.8
Words per sentence22.221.917.7
Dialogue11%13%18%

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

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