Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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protean

In the gallery of the old photographs she was always the same, staring out, while everyone else seemed disgracefully, protean, kaftaned Messiahs, sideburned Zapatas.

—p.8 by Martin Amis
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exigent

the contradictory exigencies of those Palestinians who remained within Israeli jurisdiction after the nakba

—p.207 Writing Hope: Politics and the Novel (205) missing author
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isthmian

While top state managers were transforming the industrial structures of the region’s larger economies, market forces were reshaping the composition of isthmian agriculture.

i was like uh what. i've definitely seen this word before tho

—p.27 The Latin American Left’s Shifting Tides (7) missing author
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dialogic

the manifold text, which replaces the oneness of a thinking "I" with a multiplicity of subjects, voices, and views of the world, on the model of what Mikhail Bakhtin has called "dialogic" or "polyphonic" or "carnivalesque,"

—p.117 Multiplicity (101) by Italo Calvino
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liminal

Balzac, situated as he was at a nodal point in the history of literature, in a liminal experience, now visionary and now realistic

—p.95 Visibility (81) by Italo Calvino
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