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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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The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

he could be captious, censorious, bullying

—p.329 Packing My Father-in-Law's Library (327) by James Wood
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he could be captious, censorious, bullying

—p.329 Packing My Father-in-Law's Library (327) by James Wood
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Packing My Father-in-Law's Library by James Wood

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a fairly familiar postmodern defence of poetry: We are all trapped in modes of inauthenticity, all of us mediated by discourses more powerful than the mere individual's

—p.325 Life's White Machine: Ben Lerner (320) by James Wood
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are we in fact constituted by our inauthenticities

Again, this is funny and wily, but beneath it runs dread, the dread of nullity. For the book's persistent question is: If Adam Gordon were able to summon himself into authenticity, would there be anything to see? Are we in fact constituted by our inauthenticities? When Adam appears on a panel to di…

—p.324 Life's White Machine: Ben Lerner (320) by James Wood