What Is Art?

words removed
80,602
marks left
14,588
words a sentence
25.6
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: Argonauts of the Western Pacific, Bronislaw Malinowski. More twins

Leo Tolstoy on the shelf

4 books by Leo Tolstoy are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 4th closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Hilaire Belloc. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Leo Tolstoy's punctuation is closest to José Rizal's.

Leo Tolstoy's average fingerprint

Leo Tolstoy on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookLeo Tolstoy's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.74.67.2
Commas91.581.576.6
Colons3.32.81.6
Exclamation marks1.44.12.8
Question marks2.04.93.7
Words per sentence25.618.617.0
Dialogue5%25%22%

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

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