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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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NAFTA and neoliberalism

NAFTA, negotiated throughout the late 1980s and ratified in December 1992, is widely seen as a signature extension of the logic of neoliberalism from the Reagan-Bush years into the Clinton era. As James McCarthy writes regarding the deregulatory and antistate logic behind such agreements, "These co…

—p.102 David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value Dei Gratia (88) by Jeffrey Severs
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tennis and capitaist striving

As the analogies betwen tennis and capitaist striving mount, we imagine the E.T.A players as young workers who have difficulties--and who are systematically kept from--balancing their massive physical exertions with mental labor on the question of what all this body-work is for, the "question[] of …

—p.100 Dei Gratia (88) by Jeffrey Severs
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I inhere

Thus when Hal says in the book's stark, one-line second paragraph, "I am in here" (IJ 3), rather than a statement of location, it is the cry "I EXIST," familiar from Wallace's Markson review (BF 83). I hear in this remark "I ... in-here" or "I inhere", meaning there is a substantialness to Hal's va…

—p.97 Dei Gratia (88) by Jeffrey Severs
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decigram

[...] One resonance of Gately's DG initials is the decigram, a common measure for drug sales, the "tenth of a gram" cocaine customers beg for [...]

—p.97 Dei Gratia (88) by Jeffrey Severs
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on chess

To a true chess player, the pushing about of thirty-two counters on 8x8 squares is an end in itself, a whole world next to which that of mere biological or political or social life seems messy, stale, and contingent.

—p.298 At the New Yorker A Death of Kings (295) by George Steiner