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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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saturnine

I premised these saturnine essays on a fairly basic assumption

—p.9 Second Thoughts (9) by Sven Birkerts
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the stuff that's truly interesting about religion

[...] I think this is because the stuff that's truly interesting about religion is inarticulable.** Plus the truth is that there's nothing about I really know, and nothing about it that anybody, I don't think, really knows; and so when I hear some person try to articulate or persuade me of so…

—p.7 Quo Vadis--Introduction (7) by David Foster Wallace
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deconstruction suspends that view

[...] Deconstruction neither denies nor really affects the commonsense view that language exists to communicate meaning. It suspends that view for its own specific purpose of seeing what happens when the writs of convention no longer run.

—p.128 Deconstruction: Theory and Practice Conclusion: dissenting voices (126) by Christopher Norris
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