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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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mimetic

through a process akin to mimetic desire, the audience began to experience what Fry saw, experienced with him a sameness of vision.

tag: literary-theory

—p.84 Using Everything (61) by James Wood
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abeyance

the mind putting 'understanding' into abeyance

—p.84 Using Everything (61) by James Wood
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perforce

heaven must perforce be a place of serious noticing

—p.58 Serious Noticing (29) by James Wood
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the writer is God Himself

Nabokov's is a highly self-serving and romantic view of the author, who seems to have no indebtedness to any other author; indeed, in Nabokov's mythology, this writer, who fashions humans from ribs, is God Himself, which might well mean Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov.

—p.56 Serious Noticing (29) by James Wood