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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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7 years, 7 months ago

the as it were forest

[...] One of the quirks of human memory is that the most vivid, detailed recall doesn't usually concern the things that are most germane. The as it were forest. [...]

—p.291 The Pale King §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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small-scale reenactment of the fall of Saigon

[...] the whole thing looked haphazardly jerry-rigged and chaotic, and one figured that there couldn't possibly be this many newly arrived and/or reassigned transfers to the REC as a typical daily thing, or else the disembarkation and check-in system would be much more permanent-looking and streaml…

—p.283 §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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anodyne

Another anodyne would obviously be to widen the access road and make it two-way.

—p.282 §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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mechanically raised out of a body of water

[...] The employee beside me now looked, peripherally, as though he'd been mechanically raised out of a body of water, which made the pretense of my not noticing the incredible sweating even more creepy and farcical. [...]

—p.281 §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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for all practical purposes decapitated a soybean farmer

A further irony: During an April 1987 tornado outside De Kalb, a detached portion of one of these FARM SAFETY billboards whirled in and for all practical purposes decapitated a soybean farmer--that was pretty much it for the 4-H sign.

—p.277 §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace