Ulysses

words removed
265,317
marks left
55,982
words a sentence
10.5
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: Medea of Euripides, Euripides. More twins

James Joyce on the shelf

3 books by James Joyce are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for William Shakespeare. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, James Joyce's punctuation is closest to Euripides's.

James Joyce's average fingerprint

James Joyce on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJames Joyce's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons0.11.67.2
Commas61.754.376.6
Colons9.77.11.6
Exclamation marks5.95.12.8
Question marks8.46.93.7
Words per sentence10.513.417.0
Dialogue1%8%22%

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

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