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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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hermeneutic

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

it's a nice-sounding sentence though i'm not sure I'm convinced here

—p.14 Against interpretation (3) by Susan Sontag
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portentous

the extent that Williams' plays and Cocteau's films do suggest these portentous meanings

—p.9 Against interpretation (3) by Susan Sontag
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hermeneutic

The most celebrated and influential modern doctrines, those of Marx and Freud, actually amount of elaborate systems of hermeneutics, aggressive and impious theories of interpretation.

—p.6 Against interpretation (3) by Susan Sontag
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mimetic

The earliest theory of art, that of the Greek philosophers, proposed that art was mimesis, imitation of reality.

—p.3 Against interpretation (3) by Susan Sontag
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multifarious

the most multifarious social quacks, who, by all manners of tinkering, professed to redress, without any danger to capital and profit, all sorts of social grievances

—p.84 Preface to the English Edition of 1888 (77) by Friedrich Engels
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