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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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SYSOUT=A by William T. Vollmann
The Future of Fiction

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weltanschauung

our inability to step outside of our own Welantschauung is precisely what makes everything appear to be going in multiple directions at once

—p.107 Three Axioms for Projecting a Line (or Why It Will Continue to Be Hard to Write a Title sans Slashes or Parentheses) (100) by Steve Tomasula
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limn

pulp science fiction from the thirties can be read to limn the prejudices, fears, hopes, and other attitudes prevalent in the years leading up to WWII

—p.106 Three Axioms for Projecting a Line (or Why It Will Continue to Be Hard to Write a Title sans Slashes or Parentheses) (100) by Steve Tomasula
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simulacrum

texts which were once thought to represent Truth or History increasingly came to be described as simulacra of representation

re Derrida

—p.103 Three Axioms for Projecting a Line (or Why It Will Continue to Be Hard to Write a Title sans Slashes or Parentheses) (100) by Steve Tomasula
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picaresque

Ortega y Gasset proclaimed the exhaustion of the picaresque novel since all of the options for plot lines had been used up

—p.102 Three Axioms for Projecting a Line (or Why It Will Continue to Be Hard to Write a Title sans Slashes or Parentheses) (100) by Steve Tomasula
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