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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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1 year, 3 months ago

too free to go around with a man like him

A few of these friends repeated the same dull anecdotes about the group crashing parties at Warhol’s factory, but the most commonly told story was how Cassandra scandalized them all by turning down Warren Beatty’s advances. The two apparently met at a dinner party, and when he’d asked her to have a…

—p.225 Biography of X Knife Fight (216) by Catherine Lacey
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just listening to the bells together

“And yes, I know that Martina wasn’t a real person—though I was late to hear about that exhibition and everything, and quite frankly I didn’t get it—but I never met X. I only knew Martina. Maybe it’s dumb to think my conversations with Martina were real, that she was actually my friend, but, I don’…

—p.220 Knife Fight (216) by Catherine Lacey
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something to sprawl over and enjoy

The prospect of having to repeat myself felt all at once sobering and sad; Gioia must have noticed the change in my expression because she bounced from her seat and went to a sideboard, where she mixed us two drinks, handing me one without asking. She possessed a kind of ageless nonchalance, one I …

—p.200 Gioia (195) by Catherine Lacey
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wainscoting

The ceilings were high, and the walls were made of pale stone with hardwood wainscoting.

—p.199 Gioia (195) by Catherine Lacey
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X’s circadian rhythms might have been abnormal project/beach-house

Once I theorized aloud that X’s circadian rhythms might have been abnormal, that they might have worked differently from those of the average person, but she asked me to explain how, precisely, circadian rhythms “worked” in this supposedly “average person.” What did I know definitively about such r…

—p.197 Gioia (195) by Catherine Lacey