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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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logorrhoea

The deadening logorrhea of failed communication is the endgame of late postmodernist literature

—p.135 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity (111) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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attestation

Lenore's self-assurance--or what Ricoeur would call her attestation--grows over the course of the novel

—p.128 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity (111) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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inchoate

We use narrative to create an ordered "human time" out of the inchoate, uncontrollable cosmic time

—p.121 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity (111) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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cathexis

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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