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The Flirt

Booth Tarkington (1869–1946)

Project Gutenberg #297 · EN · 71,586 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, rich vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: warm, wry, nostalgic, genteel Midwestern comedy
  • 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
74,339
Sentences
4,966
Mean sentence length
15.0 words (std 13.1, p50 11, p90 32)
MTLD (vocab richness)
90.2
Type-token ratio
0.101
Commas / 1k
72.6
Periods / 1k
51.3
Semicolons / 1k
10.1
Colons / 1k
5.2
Question marks / 1k
7.2
Exclamation marks / 1k
9.5
Em-dashes / 1k
12.5
Parentheses / 1k
0.5

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