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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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7 years, 3 months ago

the socioeconomic aura of the U.S. Open

[...] there is indeed about the Stadium crowd down here something indefinable that strongly suggests Connecticut license plates and very green lawns. In sum, the socioeconomic aura here for the day's headline match is one of management rather than labor.

—p.131 Both Flesh and Not: Essays Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open (127) by David Foster Wallace
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women as perceived entities

[...] what's less clear and way richer is the peculiar slant "omniresponsibility" takes when the responsible monad in question is historically passive, per- and & conceived as an object and not a subject--i.e., when one is a woman, who can effect change & cataclysm not as an agent but merely as a…

—p.99 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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epistemic strands

The basic argument here is that Mr. Markson, by drawing on a definitive atomistic metaphysics and transfiguring it into art, has achieved something like the definitive anti-melodrama. He has made facts sad. For Kate's existence itself is that of an atomic fact, her loneliness metaphysically ultimat…

—p.89 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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what Sacher-Masoch did for whips

Mr. T. Pynchon, who has done in literature for paranoia what Sacher-Masoch did for whips, [...]

—p.88 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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I EXIST

[...] "I EXIST" is the signal that throbs under most voluntary writing--& all good writing. [...]

—p.83 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace