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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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mendicant
What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World

the reader, reduced to something like mendicant vulnerability by its more nerve-wrenching moments

—p.426 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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picaresque

blending between the medieval romance and the early picaresque novel

—p.425 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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chiaroscuro

dark with the consciousness of human fate, and besotted with the high adjectival style of that consciousness as it lifts a coming-of-age narrative to the level of brilliant chiaroscuro meditation

ughhhh i love the way he writes

—p.422 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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peremptory

"Elbows off the table!” A cheerful and peremptory call to manners that has vast stretches of childhood in it.

damn great word

—p.382 Families and Prisons (363) by Robert Hass
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kore

It is a sort of kore myth transposed upward, a Gnostic retelling in which the love of life, the moment of its blossoming and ceremony, traps us

wtf

—p.381 Families and Prisons (363) by Robert Hass
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