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The Octopus : A Story of California
Frank Norris (1870–1902)
Project Gutenberg #268 · EN · 195,717 words · ingested 25 May 2026
Hues
- Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, terse rhythm
- LLM: raw, agrarian, naturalist fury — vast and grinding
- 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
- 200,476
- Sentences
- 12,685
- Mean sentence length
- 15.8 words (std 13.6, p50 12, p90 33)
- MTLD (vocab richness)
- 80.6
- Type-token ratio
- 0.064
- Commas / 1k
- 97.5
- Periods / 1k
- 56.1
- Semicolons / 1k
- 4.7
- Colons / 1k
- 0.9
- Question marks / 1k
- 5.5
- Exclamation marks / 1k
- 1.6
- Em-dashes / 1k
- 6.1
- Parentheses / 1k
- 0.1
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