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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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praetorians

Burgess, Philby, Maclean, Blunt, and their praetorians

used metaphorically here I assume

—p.35 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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loggia

the loggia or façade that they designed

—p.31 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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modish

always modish governance of private patronage and mass-media trivialization

can guess the meaning but never seen it used like this before

—p.31 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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parlor-pink

It is parlor-pink talk in the approved nineteen-thirties style.

—p.30 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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Anthony Blunt's Marxist sentiments

The Marxist sentiments voiced in Blunt's art reviews and in his contribution to The Mind in Chains are banal. They constitute the widespread routine of anger of a middle-class generation caught up in the threefold context of Western economic deprivation, rising Fascism and Nazism, and what were b…

—p.30 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner