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What Is Man? and Other Essays

Mark Twain (1835–1910)

Project Gutenberg #70 · EN · 94,438 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: dry, sardonic, philosophically weary, restrained
  • Crowd: not derived yet — placeholder colour
  • Blend: Blended 40% algorithmic + 60% llm

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Bar heights are the relative frequency of the 28 most common English function words — a small, stable per-book signature.

Stylometry

Words
96,826
Sentences
5,875
Mean sentence length
16.5 words (std 17.1, p50 12, p90 37)
MTLD (vocab richness)
67.1
Type-token ratio
0.100
Commas / 1k
59.2
Periods / 1k
46.4
Semicolons / 1k
10.8
Colons / 1k
2.6
Question marks / 1k
5.9
Exclamation marks / 1k
2.1
Em-dashes / 1k
10.2
Parentheses / 1k
2.5

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