Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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solecism

on June 6, Teodelina Villar committed the solecism of dying in the southern suburbs

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—p.129 The Zahir (128) by Jorge Luis Borges
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theophanies

Erigena formulates a doctrine of pantheistic cast: particular things are theophanies (revelations or apparitions of the divine) and behind them is God, the only reality

—p.119 From Someone to No One (118) by Jorge Luis Borges
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vainglory

he condemned the ambition to innovate as both illiterate and vainglorious

—p.109 Averroës’ Search (101) by Jorge Luis Borges
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an image one man alone can compose

[...] The first, that if the end purpose of the poem was surprise, its life would be measured not by centuries but by days and hours and even perhaps by minutes. The second, that a renowned poet is less an inventor than he is a discoverer. In praise of ibn-Sharaf of Berja it has been said and repea…

—p.108 Averroës’ Search (101) by Jorge Luis Borges
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pullulating

The two arcane words pullulated in the text of the Poetics; it was impossible to elude them.

what an unpleasant word

—p.102 Averroës’ Search (101) by Jorge Luis Borges
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