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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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fossick

It does a writer as talented as Hollinghurst few favours to be fossicking in fustian in this way

—p.309 English Muddle: Alan Hollinghurst (307) by James Wood
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a family you can make overnight

[...] "Which do you love more, your family or Albania?" Albania, of course, I told him. A family you can make overnight. You walk out of a coffee house, run into a woman on the corner, take her to a hotel, and boom--wife and children. But you can't make Albania overnight after a quick drink in a co…

—p.296 Ismail Kadare (290) by James Wood
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there is no fire

[...] the abysses in Krasznahorkai are bottomless and not logical. Krasznahorkai often deliberately obscures the referent, so that we have no idea what is motivating the fictions: reading him is a little like seeing a group of people standing in a circle in a town square, apparently warming their h…

—p.282 'Reality Examined to the Point of Madness': László Krasznahorkai (277) by James Wood