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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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cathexis
The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance

It is about cathecting enough other people and enough of the world

in an email to Robert K Bolger, on AA (in Gesturing Toward Reality p45)

—p.119 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity (111) by David Foster Wallace
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onomastic

a kind of onomastic genealogy that literalizes the Wittgensteinian concept of family relationships

on the relation between Kopek (i.e., cents) to Ruble (i.e., dollars) in Broom

—p.116 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity (111) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity by Clare Hayes-Brady

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protean

failing better is the only way to make (contingent, endlessly protean) meaning

—p.109 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication (93) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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soporific

the soporific death by comfort of contemporary America as embodied in the eponymous film

on IJ

—p.105 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication (93) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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