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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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sclerosis

Liberals now pledge themselves again to the sclerotic regime the modernisation of which is their notional raison d’être. ‘We demand nothing’, simpers Milyukov, ‘and impose no conditions.’

some things never change I guess

—p.31 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville
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semiotics

In August 1914, the name of St Petersburg itself is changed to the more Slavonic Petrograd: in semiotic rebellion against this idiocy, the local Bolsheviks continue to style themselves the ‘Petersburg Committee’.

—p.31 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville
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copula

They want increased pay, the dismissal of hated supervisors and – again that copula of economic and political demands – the eight-hour day

—p.30 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville
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lugubrious

he Orthodox Church propagates its lugubrious and ornate moralism – against which chafe dissenting sects, minorities, sexual dissidents in the cities’ queer hinterlands, radicals.

—p.28 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville
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abjection

Cities full of cutting-edge industries imported from Europe punctuate a vastness where four-fifths of the people are peasants tied to the soil, in near-feudal abjection.

—p.28 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville
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