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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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protean

his literary voice was so protean (variable, mutable, _labile)

—p.ii Foreword (ii) by Rick Moody
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punctilious

Not only was he physically forbidding with his punctilious, almost Amish appearance

Donald Barthelme lol

—p.ii Foreword (ii) by Rick Moody
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unwinnable until, suddenly, they were won

There is an objection which points out that absolute equality is not achievable. That has never stopped societies outlawing other intractable injustices such as rape, murder, apartheid or even slavery. All the great battles against injustice, in which modern societies take such pride, were consider…

—p.346 The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World Utopia or bust (303) by Bob Hughes
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it has no known safe level

Instead of confronting the problem of excess wealth, liberal-minded political groups usually focus on relieving poverty, perhaps by enforcing and raising minimum wages. But raised minimum wages are easily negated when earnings and wealth at the top explode, driving up the price of housing and furth…

—p.340 Utopia or bust (303) by Bob Hughes