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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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praxis

The dialectic of history is launched from a multiplicity of individual praxes.

—p.xiv Introduction (vii) by David Caute
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we actually set out to save the world inspo/interiority

We actually set out to save the world. That is what was insane — not ten-year-old warlords with bad breath and voodoo fetishes in Liberia, not Matt's assassin, not the boss in Somalia who set us up for an ambush in exchange for a fifteen percent kickback on the judges' salaries, not the Hutu mil…

—p.294 Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone Return to Normal (281) by Kenneth Cain
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dappled

the morning sun glints through the blinds, throwing dappled orange light across her skin

—p.291 Return to Normal (281) by Andrew Thomson, Heidi Postlewait, Kenneth Cain
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let the dead bury the dead inspo/interiority

I set out to save lives and have ended up collecting the dead. Somewhere along the line, I lost sight of treating people and became obsessed with my own grandiose ideals of service. But there is no redemption in this. I've worked myself into the ground only to end up doing the very thing my parents…

—p.255 Condition Echo (249) by Andrew Thomson