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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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multifarious

he becomes ‘Tsar of All Russias’, head of a colossal and multifarious empire

—p.7 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville
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fiat

He populates his city by fiat, ordering merchants and nobles to relocate to the nascent metropolis

Peter the Great building St Petersburg (early 1700s)

—p.6 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville
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crepuscular

Perhaps the glow at the horizon is neither of longer sunsets nor less sudden dawns, but is rather a protracted, constitutive ambiguity. Such crepuscularity we have all known, and will all know again.

—p.3 Introduction (1) by China Miéville
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freedom as a burden

[...] when we are deprived of universal healthcare, we are told that we are given a new freedom of choice (to choose our healthcare provider); when we can no longer rely on long-term employment and are compelled to search for a new precarious job every couple of years or maybe even every couple of …

—p.59 Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism Cardiognosis (51) by Slavoj Žižek