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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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dappled

leave them in a dapple of ambiguity rather than drag them out into any prematurely decisive light of judgment

beautiful

—p.80 Edmund Wilson (64) by James Wood
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when the proletariat took over

Wilson could see that it was psychologically credulous of Marx to believe that when the proletariat took over it would simply be on its best behaviour. What was the evidence for this? Why would the worker not want what the capitalist plutocrat had? [...]

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But Rousseau's speculative theol…

—p.77 Edmund Wilson (64) by James Wood
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approbatory

I am guilty of its every stricture and I take an extraordinary delight in its considered approbation

quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald

—p.74 Edmund Wilson (64) by James Wood
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Stéphane Mallarmé

this would enable him to trace a line from the aestheticism of Mallarmé and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam to Proust

—p.74 Edmund Wilson (64) by James Wood
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