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The Lost City

Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger (1848–1909)

Project Gutenberg #783 · EN · 57,203 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, rich vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: sun-baked, adventurous, pulpy, expansive
  • 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
58,522
Sentences
2,733
Mean sentence length
21.4 words (std 16.0, p50 18, p90 45)
MTLD (vocab richness)
165.8
Type-token ratio
0.111
Commas / 1k
91.1
Periods / 1k
30.7
Semicolons / 1k
4.9
Colons / 1k
2.2
Question marks / 1k
6.5
Exclamation marks / 1k
9.5
Em-dashes / 1k
9.7
Parentheses / 1k
0.2

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