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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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financialization

The so-called "financialization" of the global economy encompasses more than the operations of financial capital.

—p.4 Introduction: All That We Owe (1) by Richard Dienst
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history will be written by the creditors

[...] the official version of this history will not be written by "the victors" but by the creditors, for whom every human accomplishment or aspiration becomes subject to henceforth interminable wrangling and hoarding. [...] Any expression of collective possibility and promise, beleaguered in the b…

—p.3 Introduction: All That We Owe (1) by Richard Dienst
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the bitch be my own ass

[...] I tell him S.S. child I seen love at angles you ass aint dreamed but I aint never seen no white man love a bitch like you love that tiless stick in that little metal band. My man get pissed off? He never get pissed off at Too Pretty. He just look in Too Prettys face with some bad eyes all aft…

—p.93 Sonora Review DFW Tribute /Solomon Silverfish/* (67) by David Foster Wallace
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will never really and truthfully die archive/silicon-jest

[...] feeling almost as though she and Solomon, or rather she-and-Solomon, will never really and truthfully die, no matter where or what they are. She feels through the promise of new pain and sickness of the stomach a brand-new sensation of cleanness and security, like a cold chill warmed, wrapped…

—p.79 /Solomon Silverfish/* (67) by David Foster Wallace
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the flashing strobes of predreams archive/silicon-jest inspo/interiority

Sophie, in bed, drowsed, and bits of memory came at her in the flashing strobes of predreams. Here's a shiny ice storm, two newlyweds in a new tract house in Cicero. Ice glittering gray in a crunchy March lawn, more wet ice falling out of a sky without color. Solomon watching it out a window, Sophi…

—p.77 /Solomon Silverfish/* (67) by David Foster Wallace