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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.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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a towel from the Pickwick

I had moved to New York from Reno just over a year before my Bonneville trip. I’d found an apartment on Mulberry Street and planned to make films with the camera I never returned to the art department at UNR, a Bolex Pro. I arrived with the camera and Chris Kelly’s telephone number and little else.…

—p.45 The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
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structure of goodness that is designed to be unattainable

There is a terrible structure of goodness in the United States that is designed to be unattainable for most non-white Americans, most poor Americans, most immigrants, most queer, most disabled bodies. We are taught early to be good, to behave, to be quiet, to not take up space, to be invisible. May…

—p.261 Freeman's: California Bodies Built for Game (237) missing author
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gorse

It was the west, its lassitude and gorse

—p.216 Monterey (215) missing author
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