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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, 6 months ago

selling shit jobs

Nobody had warned her that the figure to pay attention to when she was being interviewed by Igor, the head of consumer outreach at Renewable Solutions, was not the "thirty or forty thousand dollars" in commissions that he foresaw her earning in her very first year but the $21,000 base salary he was…

—p.7 Purity Purity in Oakland (1) by Jonathan Franzen
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7 years, 6 months ago

the hard way

"The Vickys have an elaborate code of morals and conduct. It grew out of the moral squalor of an earlier generation, just as the original Victorians were preceded by the Georgians and the Regency. The old guard believe in that code because they came to it the hard way. They raise their children to …

—p.355 The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
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7 years, 6 months ago

subtlety

"Nell", the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding, "the difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and in…

—p.283 by Neal Stephenson
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advertising embodied archive/silicon-jest misc/mistakes

"These things are the violent end of American advertising, kid," J.D. grimaces critically at the dusty, well-traveled crud in the blurred Baggie. "Advertising embodied."

Sternbeg horrified for real: "What?"

—p.336 Girl with Curious Hair Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 6 months ago

just one petal

Mark decides on maybe just one petal, to tide him over against arrival.

—p.326 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace