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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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desiderata

Some of these desiderata might have sounded unacceptably radical to the guardians of bourgeois order imploring the Soviet to join them in ruling, but in fact these conditions were obligingly elastic, their time frames long, often indeterminate

—p.127 May: Collaboration (127) by China Miéville
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imprecate

There were poems and prayers and imprecations.

—p.116 April: The Prodigal (107) by China Miéville
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chiliastic

This was an ad hoc realisation of the traditional chiliastic yearning for equal shares of the land for all who worked it – ‘black repartition’, as this redistribution was known – and the freedoms that should ensue.

—p.116 April: The Prodigal (107) by China Miéville
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