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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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Great White Male

[...] If all blacks are great dancers and athletes, and all Orientals are smart and identical and industrious, and all Jews are great makers of money and literature, wielders of a clout born of cohesion, and all Latins great lovers and stiletto-wielders and slippers-past-borders--well then gee, wha…

—p.303 Girl with Curious Hair Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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as further coverage against estimable losses

[...] but it's a bit too late in the game for this ploy to do more than cover some losses, and the pesticide salesman is angst-ridden and red-eyed and effetely low on self-esteem, and wants very much to ball this ageless but oddly sexy orange-faced stewardess, as further coverage against estimable …

—p.290 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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baking soda

Because DeHaven Steelritter, son, has unwittingly given J.D. some of J.D.'s most creative and inspired ideas. It was DeHaven who first poured Arm & Hammer baking soda down the drain of the Steelritter farmhouse kitchen, in Collision, to try to erase the indelible odor of two marijuana roaches mista…

—p.286 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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he demands compassion

The sink, with a gurgled sigh like almost mercy, overflows, emergency drain-slit and all, Sternberg's spent so unmercifully so much time in here. The water gurgles over the rim and onto the crotch of his gabardines. Great. That's just great. Now it looks like he's maybe wet himself. And what's he s…

—p.282 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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Sternberg's cyst inspo/characterisation topic/having-a-body

Cause it's only dark, generally, back there in his eye's guts. Sometimes a spidery system of synaptic color, if he tries to move the bad eye too quickly. But usually nothing. But it'll heal, anyway. It'll come around. It's all in his head, he knows. Youthful-rebellion injury. Mrs. Sternberg warned …

—p.280 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace