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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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Kierkegaard on despair

[...] Wanting despair, despairing, means recognizing that something has to change, and that means changing despair from a state that one is in (with or without knowing it) to a self-chosen act; and with that choice the individual leaes despair behind (for he has thereby taken on the task of bec…

—p.201 Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature Reality-Commitment (197) by Allard Pieter den Dulk
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anaclitic

infant dragging itself anaclitically around the map

quoting IJ 694

—p.192 Sincerity (162) missing author
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dialectic

not the product of dialectic but sui generis: Truth!

quoting You Shall Know Our Velocity

—p.185 Sincerity (162) by Dave Eggers
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Mario's familial dysautonomia

[...] despite being the most empathetic character in the novel who is always perceptive of other people's pain and suffering, Mario himself does not feel pain. [...] this neurological deficit seems an unmistakable reference to Wittgenstein's question [...]: what determines the meaning of the uttera…

—p.181 Sincerity (162) by Allard Pieter den Dulk