Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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limpid

within the limpid facets of which, had I been a better crystal-gazer, I might have seen a room, people, lights, trees in the rain—a whole period of émigré life for which that ring was to pay

—p.81 by Vladimir Nabokov
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portentous

As she came to a particularly dramatic passage, where the hero was about to encounter some strange, perhaps fatal danger, her voice would slow down, her words would be spaced portentously

—p.81 by Vladimir Nabokov
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cuneate

whey sky of a dull spring day, heat lightning taking pictures of a distant line of trees in the night, the palette of maple leaves on brown sand, a small bird’s cuneate footprints on new snow.

this guy knows too many fckin words wtf

—p.40 by Vladimir Nabokov
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palpebral

Perhaps nearer to the hypnagogic mirages I am thinking of is the colored spot, the stab of an afterimage, with which the lamp one has just turned off wounds the palpebral night

—p.34 by Vladimir Nabokov
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hypnagogic

Perhaps nearer to the hypnagogic mirages I am thinking of is the colored spot, the stab of an afterimage, with which the lamp one has just turned off wounds the palpebral night

—p.34 by Vladimir Nabokov
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